Doom For the SonyEricsson P800 smartphone

Peter van Sebille writes "It's with the greatest pleasure that I announce the availability of EDoom for the P800, version 1.0. You may download EDoom for free from: http://www.yipton.net EDoom for the SonyEricsson P800 is fully playable by using the stylus as an on-screen joystick, has 8 channel stereo sound support and an on-screen virtual keyboard, alpha-blended in the Doom scene. Happy Dooming!!!!"

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newtonquake

[nounderscores]

I hope this won't be like newtonquake.

I've been wanting this for a long time!

[Motherfucking Shit]

Now when I'm in a public place and some idiot's cellphone starts blasting his favorite ringtone at 300 decibels, I don't have to sit there and take it... I can just frag him!

Re:Small screen could be an issue

[Timmeh]

You should really scroll down and look at the screenshots, but since I'm sure you're too lazy...

EDoom Splash screen
First view in-game
Some sort of video config. screen (Dear god it runs in 320x200, what did doom originally run in?)
Alpha-blended onscreen keyboard for writing out save game files

This thing looks very slick, now if the claims about playability are true... I could talk myself into needing a new phone. :D

Great Phone

[fastdecade]

Typical ambiguous slashdot headline had me concerned for a second ... I'm really looking forward to this phone.

I noted a few pros and cons a few days ago wrt PDA/Phone combos.

Upsides of P800:
- size of a normal phone
- pen-based input. Using Jot, which might have been a problem for grafitti fans until palm announced its shifting to Jot
- all the usual stuff - MP3s, camera, bluetooth
- java
- Unbelievably, a mame [demon.co.uk] port.

More downsides:
- Cost - currently selling at about US$900.
- Proprietary Sony memory stick rather than SD/MMC card.

Re:HUH?

[Bronster]

I could be wrong, but in my experience, it's usually slashdot that's wrong.

Nope, you're wrong.

Specifically, 8 channel stereo sound means that it can play 8 different sounds at once, through two speakers. If you've ever used a keyboard (that's a music keyboard, you know - with black and white keys, not just ivory ones) with only a few channels, you will recognise the sound of not-enough-channels.

Playing chords sounds very different depending which keys you hit first...

Anyway, 8 channel sound means that the noise of your rockets exploding won't suddenly stop half way through when you grunt.

Just the beginning...

[rbeattie]

I'm sort of surprised by the lack of posts and enthusiasm for this topic in general from all you geeks. This stuff is really, really cool.

This isn't just a phone it's a connected risc computer in your hand. This goes for the P800 as well as for the other Symbian phones such as the Nokia 7650 which I own. The hackability is amazing.

First the hardware: These phones run on 32 bit RISC-based ARM processors. Your Gameboy Advance is running on an ARM too but at 16Mhz, these phones are all 100Mhz or more. They're fast. They all have several megs of memory (though the 7650 could be better), full color screens, and support for cool shit like Bluetooth.

The Symbian OS is a full-fledged 32bit OS. It has a real directory structure, support for all the protocols you can think of and it was designed from the ground up for mobile devices so it Just Works. The P800 even has support for Personal Java on the same level as native programs which will make it easy for the zillions of Java programmers out there to create cool-ass apps pretty easily.

I bought my phone a month ago and I'm amazed every day by the stuff it does. When I connect to the GPRS network the phone gets a real IP address. This means I can browse the web with a normal web browser, use an Instant Messenger, FTP, telnet, or anything else you can think of doing from a PC, but from my phone! The P800 already has a VNC client ready to go! And when I'm at home, instead of having to connect to the somewhat slow GPRS, I use Bluetooth to connect to my computer and get an IP address that way (I share out my DSL line just like using WiFi). Now I can do all the above, but at better speeds without wasting my GPRS meg alotment. I can synch, browse the web, send messages etc. but from my couch across the room (though normally it's perfect for the john).

The 3D games are amazing, better than anything I've seen so far on the Gameboy. And one game called MSG Karting, allows players to race each other over Bluetooth. I haven't tried it yet because I'm the only one I know with a Symbian phone, but it's possible already. No more cables.

I bought the phone to play with the tech and I haven't been let down. Every day I think of something else I can do or want to do with the phones. There's lots of interesting developments going on right now. In the next MONTH you're going to see more Symbian phones from Nokia and Siemens (both in the U.S. and Europe) as well wider availability of the P800. Plus, if you read the news lately, you'll see that unlike the rest of the tech sector, there's actually GOOD news coming out of the mobile world. Nokia and Qualcomm both just announced kick ass sales and the fact the both have over $8 Billion in the bank in cash. This is good stuff to hear... makes you realize where the next boom is going to be.

So when you read something like they put Doom on these phones, don't think, "bah" think, "ooh! What ELSE are they going to do" because these computers (not phones) are going to be everywhere within the next year or so and the innovations are just starting.

-Russ

Will the P800 get me some action?

[mr.henry]

I bought the SonyEricsson T68i confident that it would make girls sexually attracted to me. For some reason, it has not helped out at all. I'm pretty sure the P800 will fix this though.