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April 29th, 2008

C64 emulator for S60v3 available - welcoming Frodo for S60v3

Hannu Viitala has just released an S60v3 port of his C64 emulator called Frodo - the program can now be downloaded from the author’s web site.

However, the free distribution version does not emulate the C64’s sound system completely - while this has no implication for the performance of games, it nevertheless means that you won’t hear anything when playing: the sound engine is called Bilbo and is made available after a donation….

April 29th, 2008

Photos of the Nokia N95-powered car

Nokia recently announced a cooperation with Renault - the two have ganged up recently, and announced a (limited edition) vehicle called Sandero Nokia that comes with a Nokia N95 for navigation.

Here are a few images of the car and the phone - for me, it looks like a stock N95…

P.S. Can anyone of you explain me what’s so cool about a microcar with an integrated phone?

April 29th, 2008

Buy.com reveals price for N810 WiMax, takes preorders

The folks at buy.com have just revealed further information on the WiMax edition of the Nokia N810(pictured below):

The preorder page over at buy.com’s states a price of 431.99$(479$ list) - in case anyone of you absolutely must go WiMax, give them a click here.

April 29th, 2008

Webinar on Web Runtime Widgets for S60

In case anyone of you is particularly interested in developing widgets for Nokia’s new WRT runtime, a free webinar could be helpful to get up to speed quickly.

The announcement below has all the info - if you joined in, please let us know how it went!

“Practical WRT Widgets Development for S60″ - Forum Nokia Webinars

Join us in this webinar, where we will take a practical look at how to
develop widgets for the S60 platform, by developing and testing our very own
widget application using tools available on Forum Nokia web site.

Presentation time: approx 60 minutes.

This session will be presented successively at these times:

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
1.00 pm Sao Paolo, 5.00 pm London, 7.00 pm Helsinki,
12.00 pm New York, 9.00 am San Francisco

Register
here

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