With the football World Cup 2010 (eh, what, is something happening today?) starting this evening and going on for all eternity a month, you'll be wondering how you can keep track of the goings on in South Africa on your smartphone. Whether out and about or on the sofa, there are plenty of options to keep you informed and entertained. Read on for some suggestions.
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Thanks for those suggestions steve,the theme looks great on my 5800. May i suggest a game called "spot the cheat" with thierry henry as the main villian! ! Would be great to watch the football highlights on my 5800 though,now if only the beeb would allow us irish access to iplayer. .even if it was just for one month 😊
Love the middle graphic for the EA game. That's probably the only time England's going to get their hands on the trophy. 😃
On a more serious note, $5 for the 'offline' Soccer Time app? What were the devs thinking?
Just bought the Final Whistle World Cup 2010 from OVI.
From the little time I've had to play around with it, it seems to be good.
Here in Argentina we nokians are using the Nokia Gol 2010 service (http://www.nokiagol.com/), you can get it from Ovi Store for free. It is fast and provide a lot of info about the Cup. It has a minute by minute tools and also historic results from all other World Cup (from 1930 until 2006). Also you can turn on "Live" feature, and your phone will vibrate (or ring) if something happened.
It is what you need and for free!!
Regards from Argentina,
GermanG
Nokia Goal in English:
Bought it two hours ago. Ist just brilliant. Keeps you up to date, a lot of eyecandy for am symbian Java app (which I like). Definetely worth the 0.99 Cents.
Stats are Brilliant, navigation as well.
The AP World Cup coverage app is free and seems pretty good. It contains news, photos and even videos, and if those videos contains the actual goals that would be awesome. I assume that's too much to hope for though...
These world cup apps are appalling compared to the offerings on android and iphone.
http://www.solidblogger.com/fifa-world-cup-2010-apps-iphone-ipod-touch/
http://www.solidblogger.com/fifa-world-cup-2010-apps-android/
Symbian seriously is the most horrible operating system. It is backup up by nokia's under-specced hardware (5800 with its 400mhz processor and 128mb of ram omg). Even when developers try to make apps for symbian (which is seldom compared to iphone and android developers), they have a shocking system to work with. Symbian is dead. I hate my 5800...it lags, the hardware is terrible, firmware updates come out sporadically and hardly ever fix anything, the ovi app store is a complete joke.. and it allround sucks. Long live the android and iphone operating systems. Nokia and symbian are a joke.
Why blame Symbian because of some poor looking apps? Blame the developers.
In fact why even visit and post in a Symbain related blog?
Well captain, i've had many symbian phones over the years, and i was under the illusion, that because of symbian-dedicated websites like this one, that it was a superior operating system. Yet recently, i have been enlightened by the BETTER operating systems and will never go back to symbian. And Captain u think all the developers of most of the shitty apps available on symbian are to blame? Well the fact is that symbian can't attract developers that are willing to to make good apps, plainly for the reason that symbians SDK stinks.
The quality of apps in terms of look and feel does come down in part to the OS and SDK. Symbian was the best thing out there before Apple came along, but now developing for Symbian is shown up as complex and messy by comparison. Many developers for Symbian were also what I'd call techy devs who concentrated just on features for at the time small poor quality displays. Developers who are good at artistic design are put off by Symbian development and will naturally gravitate towards Apple and Android which make it easy to knock out thousands of sexy looking (but usually crap) apps.
Oh, and you can get good looking on Nokia. Just look at the Java apps. Most look good and also work well in terms of navigating around the app, using menus and scrolling. I nice smooth experience. Symbian / S60 doesn't make this kind of experience an easy task. Even the best S60 app ever, Gravity, which is a far better experience, still struggles a bit with the underlying OS dragging it along. Had it been written in Java it would fly (but would then lack some of the features).
Unregistered wrote:Here in Argentina we nokians are using the Nokia Gol 2010 service (http://www.nokiagol.com/), you can get it from Ovi Store for free.
I wish Nokia would introduce a 'trial' category in the store to make this clear!😡