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Thinking about what mobile phones can do except messaging and voice calls is one of my main interests. At the department of Mobile Computing at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg (Austria), I can work on those ideas every day by collaborating with students, researching and - well - thinking.

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Andreas Jakl's Forum Nokia Blog

Category: Games

The Phone’s Compass as a Game Controller

CarChallenge is controlled through the compass of the mobile phone. The Nokia 6210 Navigator is the first device from Nokia that features a magnetometer. It allows using the phone as a compass – very important for pedestrian...

Accelerometers Redefine the Game Experience

Accelerometers fully integrated into the game design - turn your phone to change the gravity of the environment! Nearly nobody noticed the Nokia 5500 Sports , most likely the first phone equipped with an accelerometer that was accessible for...

Mobile Physics

Draw abstract objects on the screen; they will instantly get physical properties! Physics engines simulate behaviour and motion of objects in a virtual world. With the increased processor resources available on today’s PCs, almost every...

Mopoid Workshop - Your Own Arkanoid-like Game for S60

Develop a full-blown Arkanoid-like game - and play it! Probably the largest and longest free workshop for S60 development is now available in a completely rewritten and updated version. The unique aspect: everything is explained based on a...

Euro 2008? -> Table Soccer on your phone!

pyWuzzler - accelerometer-controlled table soccer on your phone. Austria is currently one of the host countries of the Euro 2008 , the UEFA European Football Championship. Naturally, soccer is one of the biggest topics in our country at...

Mobile Game Controllers: Problem Solved!

Play all the games you want on your mobile phone using mobiPad. The article „ Ten plausible things that would be really cool on N-Gage “ recently suggested that a Bluetooth game controller should be released for mobile phones....

ShakerRacer is now Open Source!

A short summary: ShakerRacer allows you to control a real RC car with the accelerometer of the N95. This means that you can turn and accelerate simply by tilting your phone. Read more at the previous Forum Nokia blog post . Close-up of the modded RC car that can be controlled by the...

3D games and more – Java ME course materials available

A few minutes ago, the last upload was finally finished and now symbianresources.com does not only feature loads of Symbian OS-related projects and tutorials, but also the course materials of the introductory Java ME course from the Mobile Computing-department of the University of Applied...

ShakerRacer: Real RC car controlled with the N95 acceleration sensor

Since the API to read the data of the acceleration sensor of the N95 has been released a short time ago, a lot of applications using it have been released. Some examples are the original moving ball -application from Nokia, the light sabre or Accelerinvaders . It’s finally possible to...

Wii Controller + S60 Phone = Motorcycle Game!

Controlling a game on a mobile phone is often a bigger challenge than the game itself — with tiny buttons that are close together, playing a game can be cumbersome and inaccurate. Therefore, designers always have to adapt the games to the keyboard of mobile phones, which naturally limits...

New Concepts for the Acceleration Sensor

As the fellow Forum Nokia Champion Arto Holopainen pointed out in his Forum Nokia Blog-posting , the 3D accelerometer in the Nokia 5500 is very useful for detecting if a person falls down. I’d like to introduce two applications that were developed in this winter semester by...