Well, I found this, and while it's OpenGL with 3d-characters, I thought more about something in the lines of a Heretic, or even Quake-like engine(raycasting probably prefered because of the random dungeon-thingie.).:)
Whether the caracters are sprites or true 3D, are not that important, since it's not a big deal to have fully polygonal characters and obkects, in a raycasting world(Like f.eks. Chasm did.).
How about making a 3D FPS-version of nethack? Ofcourse, you wouldn't have the same overview as the real thing, but I know *I* would have loved to explore endless of dungeons in full 3D anyway.:)The nethack "world" is based on squares, and so are some of the older "2.5D" FPS's like f.eks. Wolf3D. I'm not a very experienced (or even slightly good) programmer, but I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to make a simple raycasting engine for nethack.:) Anyone up for it?;)
Nokia and their series 60 seems to be the bandwagon that everyone wants to jump on. If it wasn't for the limited execution RAM in the 9210(i) and 7650 they would be amazingly good phones.
The Nokia 3650 will have everything the 7650 has, as well as being triband AND having an MMC memory expansion port.:)
No, Series 60 doesn't have a thouchscreen, but are much better suited for one-hand use, than the P800. And last time i checked, there was no universal truth that said that pen-based input automaticaly makes a better UI on smartphones.
The Nokia 7650 is in my opinon, the best of the currently available smartphones. It has a stable, open OS, with a nice gui, 4mb ram, internal VGA camera, and a nice display(which is big enough for most PDA-uses while small enough to be economical power-wise). Nokia are even suplying a free Series 60 SDK.
The 3650, which internaly is a triband 7650 with an added MMC memory-expansion port, will be released early 2003, and are in my opinion the best approach for smartphones yet. Ofcourse, some ppl will argue that the Sony Ericson P800 is a better aproach, but in my opinion, it's a souped up PDA with phone functionality, not a true smartphone.
"I think "ryu" in Japanese means dragon (hence why it looks like a dragon). What does "ban" add to it? Anyone know, out of curiosity."
From the article: "The new "Banryu", which means "guard-dragon" in place of "guard-dog", takes on a look of an ancient reptile with a futuristic twist." =)
"Am I the only one that thought that said Sybian?"
Am I the only one who thinks the obligatory vibrator-jokes, that pops up with every mention of Symbian Smartphones on Slashdot, are starting to get old..?
"As it supports both J2ME and it's own C++ based API's it can support anything you write for it, I'd be very supprised if both Go and Chess don't exisit for J2ME, and I know EPOC has Chess, which would not be hard to port over to Symbian 7."
Actually, Series 60 is Symbian 6.1, not Symbian 7.
"By all-in-one I mean I want a Digital Camera/Cell Phone/Pager/mp3 player/PDA with wireless networking all in one no bigger than palm-sized package."
Hmmm... the Sony Ericsson P800, will have a built in VGA-camera, MP3-player, 32bit OS(Symbian 7.0), bigger thouchscreen than most Palms(320x280x12bit), bluetooth(okay, not exactly WLan), and Sony Memorystick expansion slot. Ofcourse, it won't be released in a while, but it comes pretty close to what you want, doesn't it?:)
The topic is Michael's. What i suggested as topic, was "First US phone with built in digital camera"(or something), something I also state in the text below. I am aware of the allready released Sidekick, Ericsson T68i as well as the Nokia 92xx series, but none of those have a built in camera, and none of them have or support any kind of flash, as far as I know.
Or even wierder.. How do you explain MY haircolor(s) then?:) My father is of gypsy origin with black hair and a dark skintone. My mother is a Natural redhead, with freckles, flaming red hair and a light skintone.
Me? I have a somewhat darked reddish brown hair on my head, no freckles, blonde hair in my armpits, black hair on my chest and stomach, and flaming red hair, uhm.. down there.
I somehow misread the info on Nokias website. It says"The Nokia 6650 is a first-of-it's kind 3G
phone, but developers need not wait for a full 3G network roll-out before taking advantage of its features.", which in essence means that it's the first 3G phone with those features, not neccesarly the first 3G phone.
"While all manufactures now offer 900/1800/1900
phones now, Nokia does just 2-band leaving
out north american customers."
Alot of the other, newer Nokia phones, like the 3650, the 7210, and the 6610 are triband. The reason this phone isn't, does probably have something to do with WCDMA really not being used in the US.:)
Sorry, my fault.:-/
However, there are some info here, and there will probably be info on Nokia's Devices specification page which presents info on all of Nokia's phones side by side, for easy comparison, soon.
"With Nokia, xx10 is the 900,1800 freq. so basically Everywhere else but U.S. xx50 means the U.S. version. I learned this the hard way when I was in the Philippines a few years ago I had the 8210 which has an infrared port -- when I came back to the U.S. I got an 8250, but it didn't have the infrared port. They dumb things down for the U.S. market, and then they jack the prices...Good strategy if you ask me."
You are correct that xx50 used to mean that it was an US verison, but only on earlier phones that had the xx10 designation in Europe. This way of defining versions of different Nokia models, cannot be transfered to the phones with x650 modelnumbers(7650, 3650, etc), or any of Nokias triband phones. The 3650, is f.eks. a triband GSM phone targeted towards both the European and Asian markets, as well as the US one. 6610 does also have triband, and nothing should prevent it from being used/sold in the US, as oposed to the older dualband-phones(900MHz/1800MHz) such as the 8210 and 5110, where they needed to make an own version for the US 1900MHz networks
The x650 model designation, simply means that it uses the Series 60, symbian-based OS, and have imaging(vga camera) capabillities.
In short, 6610 is a 2.5G phone, which uses Nokias Series 40 OS, has no camera, and is GSM TRIBAND. 6650 is a 3G phone, which uses Nokias Series 60(Based on SymbianOS 6.1), has a built in camera, more memory, and has wideband connectivity.
fsck the P800.
The recently announced Nokia 3650 will have video-recording capabillities by default as well, and cost ALOT less than the P800 while still being a Triband phone, with SymbianOS, memory expansion-slot(MMC), Bluetooth, etc. I won't pay almost three times the price of the 3650, just to get a slightly bigger thouchscreen, more built in memory, and an inabillity to use the phone effectively with one hand.
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"However, I am concerned about the screen. Its square. If it were 1987 maybe this would be proper competition"
Nah, the screen is actually a vertically alligned rectangle, with a resolution of 176 x 208 pixels, like the other two Series 60-based Nokia phones.
YES! That is it! I Want Quakehack!! ;)
Well, I found this, and while it's OpenGL with 3d-characters, I thought more about something in the lines of a Heretic, or even Quake-like engine(raycasting probably prefered because of the random dungeon-thingie.). :)
Whether the caracters are sprites or true 3D, are not that important, since it's not a big deal to have fully polygonal characters and obkects, in a raycasting world(Like f.eks. Chasm did.).
How about making a 3D FPS-version of nethack? :)The nethack "world" is based on squares, and so are some of the older "2.5D" FPS's like f.eks. Wolf3D. I'm not a very experienced (or even slightly good) programmer, but I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to make a simple raycasting engine for nethack. :) ;)
Ofcourse, you wouldn't have the same overview as the real thing, but I know *I* would have loved to explore endless of dungeons in full 3D anyway.
Anyone up for it?
"....And yet the brave Norvegian prosecutor is going after a kid ... His ancestors must be turning wildly in their graves .."
... uhm, Inger Marie Sunde is a she.
Nokia and their series 60 seems to be the bandwagon that everyone wants to jump on. If it wasn't for the limited execution RAM in the 9210(i) and 7650 they would be amazingly good phones.
:)
The Nokia 3650 will have everything the 7650 has, as well as being triband AND having an MMC memory expansion port.
No, Series 60 doesn't have a thouchscreen, but are much better suited for one-hand use, than the P800. And last time i checked, there was no universal truth that said that pen-based input automaticaly makes a better UI on smartphones.
The Nokia 7650 is in my opinon, the best of the currently available smartphones. It has a stable, open OS, with a nice gui, 4mb ram, internal VGA camera, and a nice display(which is big enough for most PDA-uses while small enough to be economical power-wise). Nokia are even suplying a free Series 60 SDK.
The 3650, which internaly is a triband 7650 with an added MMC memory-expansion port, will be released early 2003, and are in my opinion the best approach for smartphones yet. Ofcourse, some ppl will argue that the Sony Ericson P800 is a better aproach, but in my opinion, it's a souped up PDA with phone functionality, not a true smartphone.
Reviews of the nokia 7650 here, and previews of the Nokia 3650 and the Sony Ericsson P800.
"I think "ryu" in Japanese means dragon (hence why it looks like a dragon). What does "ban" add to it? Anyone know, out of curiosity."
From the article: "The new "Banryu", which means "guard-dragon" in place of "guard-dog", takes on a look of an ancient reptile with a futuristic twist." =)
66314 ;)
:)
Method: Hard hit from behind to the back in an(about) 45 degrees upwards angle.
Beware, for those are not ordinary ducks, but DRAGON DUCKS! .... And that's not an arrow, it's a sword! (Yes, Seriously!)
"Am I the only one that thought that said Sybian?"
Am I the only one who thinks the obligatory vibrator-jokes, that pops up with every mention of Symbian Smartphones on Slashdot, are starting to get old..?
"As it supports both J2ME and it's own C++ based API's it can support anything you write for it, I'd be very supprised if both Go and Chess don't exisit for J2ME, and I know EPOC has Chess, which would not be hard to port over to Symbian 7."
:)
Actually, Series 60 is Symbian 6.1, not Symbian 7.
...And yes, there are lots of both Symbian software, and j2me aplications out there.
"They mean the Nokia 7650 [nokia.com]"
The Nokia 7650 is a Dualband EGSM900/1800 phone, which has not, and will never be, released in the USA.
"By all-in-one I mean I want a Digital Camera/Cell Phone/Pager/mp3 player/PDA with wireless networking all in one no bigger than palm-sized package."
:)
Hmmm... the Sony Ericsson P800, will have a built in VGA-camera, MP3-player, 32bit OS(Symbian 7.0), bigger thouchscreen than most Palms(320x280x12bit), bluetooth(okay, not exactly WLan), and Sony Memorystick expansion slot. Ofcourse, it won't be released in a while, but it comes pretty close to what you want, doesn't it?
The topic is Michael's. What i suggested as topic, was "First US phone with built in digital camera"(or something), something I also state in the text below. I am aware of the allready released Sidekick, Ericsson T68i as well as the Nokia 92xx series, but none of those have a built in camera, and none of them have or support any kind of flash, as far as I know.
Or even wierder.. How do you explain MY haircolor(s) then? :) My father is of gypsy origin with black hair and a dark skintone. My mother is a Natural redhead, with freckles, flaming red hair and a light skintone.
Me? I have a somewhat darked reddish brown hair on my head, no freckles, blonde hair in my armpits, black hair on my chest and stomach, and flaming red hair, uhm.. down there.
"that won't quite work because there are ALWAYS other ways of finding out your TRUE hair colour if you know what I mean ;)"
:Pbr
And who says that you cannot dye "that" hair too?=
I somehow misread the info on Nokias website. It says"The Nokia 6650 is a first-of-it's kind 3G phone, but developers need not wait for a full 3G network roll-out before taking advantage of its features.", which in essence means that it's the first 3G phone with those features, not neccesarly the first 3G phone.
:)
My mistake.
"While all manufactures now offer 900/1800/1900 phones now, Nokia does just 2-band leaving out north american customers."
:)
Alot of the other, newer Nokia phones, like the 3650, the 7210, and the 6610 are triband. The reason this phone isn't, does probably have something to do with WCDMA really not being used in the US.
Sorry, my fault. :-/
However, there are some info here, and there will probably be info on Nokia's Devices specification page which presents info on all of Nokia's phones side by side, for easy comparison, soon.
"It has a 128x60 pixel display."
:)
Actually, according to Nokia's Device specifications page, it's 128 x 160. Still quite small, though.
"With Nokia, xx10 is the 900,1800 freq. so basically Everywhere else but U.S. xx50 means the U.S. version. I learned this the hard way when I was in the Philippines a few years ago I had the 8210 which has an infrared port -- when I came back to the U.S. I got an 8250, but it didn't have the infrared port. They dumb things down for the U.S. market, and then they jack the prices...Good strategy if you ask me."
You are correct that xx50 used to mean that it was an US verison, but only on earlier phones that had the xx10 designation in Europe. This way of defining versions of different Nokia models, cannot be transfered to the phones with x650 modelnumbers(7650, 3650, etc), or any of Nokias triband phones. The 3650, is f.eks. a triband GSM phone targeted towards both the European and Asian markets, as well as the US one. 6610 does also have triband, and nothing should prevent it from being used/sold in the US, as oposed to the older dualband-phones(900MHz/1800MHz) such as the 8210 and 5110, where they needed to make an own version for the US 1900MHz networks
The x650 model designation, simply means that it uses the Series 60, symbian-based OS, and have imaging(vga camera) capabillities.
In short, 6610 is a 2.5G phone, which uses Nokias Series 40 OS, has no camera, and is GSM TRIBAND. 6650 is a 3G phone, which uses Nokias Series 60(Based on SymbianOS 6.1), has a built in camera, more memory, and has wideband connectivity.
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Nokia has extensive information on all their phones at their website, links below.
6610: http://www.nokia.com/phones/6610/specifications.h
6650: http://www.nokia.com/phones/6650/specifications.h
fsck the P800.
The recently announced Nokia 3650 will have video-recording capabillities by default as well, and cost ALOT less than the P800 while still being a Triband phone, with SymbianOS, memory expansion-slot(MMC), Bluetooth, etc. I won't pay almost three times the price of the 3650, just to get a slightly bigger thouchscreen, more built in memory, and an inabillity to use the phone effectively with one hand.