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Wednesday 22 June 2011

Video: Angry Birds Seasons: Summer Picnic [ 22-06-2011 19:19 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: via BGR Translation by: Paul Smith

Angry Birds, as ever, is charging ahead at full tilt and Rovio have put out a trailer for their upcoming summer release: Angry Birds Seasons: Summer Picnic. It's a short clip, just 30 seconds, but it looks as if players will be getting just a single angry bird per level with which to take out those pesky pigs.

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Seesmic Stopping Support For BlackBerry Twitter App [ 22-06-2011 19:18 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: Seesmic Translation by: Paul Smith

RIM has suffered with a rather poor reputation of late, especially when it comes to being perceived as being up to date and relevant. That reputation got another blow today as Seesmic announced that they will no longer be supporting their BlackBerry Twitter app from 30th June onwards.

Ok so that doesn't sound all that important and I suppose in the grand scheme of things it isn't, but it is still significant. You see Seesmic went to the bother of releasing an app for BlackBerry in the first place and the decision to drop support from that app effectively says that Seesmic doesn't consider BlackBerry, as a platform, worth bothering about. Indeed Seesmic actually state that they are dropping BlackBerry support "... in order to focus development efforts on [its] most popular mobile platforms". Ouch!

Seesmic go on to recommend that their users try "... Seesmic for Android, iOS and Windows Phone 7". In other words Seesmic reckons you should probably switch phones if you own a BlackBerry.

The bottom line is that Seesmic is just one app developer abandoning BlackBerry, but that obviously raises questions as to whether others might follow suit or whether other devs are also looking at BlackBerry as the horse most likely to fall at the water jump. If nothing else it's a blow to BlackBerry's prestige.

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Video: Augmented Reality Cinema [ 22-06-2011 19:11 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: Augmented Reality Cinema Translation by: Paul Smith

As the regular reader of this page will know I am a big fan of augmented reality, well the concept behind it at least anyway. The actual implementation so far has mostly been a bit poor in my opinion, but every once in a while there comes along an idea that really gets you hooked on AR all over again and 'Augmented Reality Cinema' is one such idea.

The basis of the app is pretty simple; when you are in a location where a famous scene from a film was shot the app will play that corresponding clip. If that sounds a little dull believe me it isn't. Make sure you check out the video below to see the concept behind this app. I'm not certaint hat the app is in working condition yet, but even so the concept video does a great job of selling the idea.

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Nokia Senior Engineer: Elop Doesn't Understand MeeGo Situation [ 22-06-2011 19:01 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: via IntoMobile Translation by: Paul Smith

Not everyone in Nokia land is happy at the moment, the reason being MeeGo. In a blog post yesterday Felipe Contreras, one of Nokia's senior software engineers, stated quite explicitly that in his own (expert) opinion "... if there’s a reason for ditching MeeGo, it’s certainly not a technical one, and most likely not a good one either".

Mr Contreras cites an email he received from Nokia CEO Stephen Elop saying that on the matter of MeeGo handsets there simply weren't enough in the pipeline moving forwards and that consequently this constituted MeeGo's biggest problem. In response Contreras responds by saying that 'this is simply not true'. Contreras argues that since the work to get MeeGo running on the Texas Instruments OMAP chipset has already been done Nokia could put MeeGo on as many of those devices as they wished. The only extra work that would be required would be if MeeGo was to be used with other chipsets, Snapdragon say.

Nokia pretty much does the former anyway; getting Symbian ready for a particular chipset and then adding in a key hardware feature to differentiate handsets e.g. Symbian with a powerful camera; Symbian with a big screen, etc. In other words the same approach could have been taken with MeeGo without any major effort.

Looking at Windows Phone, Nokia's choice of platform over MeeGo, we see a platform that only runs on a single chipset, the Qualcomm Snapdragon. This has advantages and disadvantages for Nokia because on the one hand Nokia doesn't have to fret over getting the platform to run on different chipset, but at the same time that very advantage reduces the variety of devices too.

The reaction from Elop to all of this was simple "I am simply going to choose to respectfully disagree on multiple fronts”. Summing up Elop's response to his well reasoned argument for MeeGo Contreras simply says "He didn’t even bothered to mention exactly what was the disagreement".

You can read Contreras' full blogpost here.