TECHMUNDO 2.0

I still haven’t upgraded my firmware, simply because I’m in the middle of Super Miners.  I’m helplessly stuck in level 84 (I think) and I don’t want to mess up my save game.

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Everyone knows that I’ve been happily wasting tons of hours playing Super Miners.  I’m on Level 49 right now and quite content on the fact that I have forty-ish more levels to explore.

Last night I went to watch The Covenant with some friends; and while waiting for the movie to start, a fellow E61 owner and myself tried to play multiplayer bluetooth co-op mode.  It was awesome!!!  It added another dimension to the very enjoyable gameplay.  It really was true co-op playing as both of you have to device schemes not to run out of time.  Division of labor, communication and planning was really essential to hurdle even the first couple of stages.  What was nice was that you get to play brand new levels that pose new challenges, especially that they shortened the available time to complete each level.

I haven’t tried out the competitive mode yet but I think it will rock!

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Apologies for not updating the blog as I usually do.  I’ve been busy with some stuff these past week (and not just with playing games like a certain E61 blogger assumed . . .  ummm, thats you Jake! ).  On the times when I am idle, I admit that I looooove playing Super Miners, but I am hopelessly stuck in Level 41.  Can someone help me please???

Also, another game that took a whole lot of my time was Darkest Fear.  Their third and final installment is out, entitled Nightmare.

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In the past couple of days, I haven’t had much to blog about as regards the wonderful E61.  I’m still playing SuperMiners and for the past couple of days I’ve been stuck in Level 36.  Hopefully by tonight I’ll get over this hurdle.

Also, I’ve been loving what Daniel has done to his blog.  Just in case you haven’t read his blog, head to e61life.  One of the most up to date blogs especially in the software front.  He has also made a couple of nice themes for the E61.  My current favorite is his bright yellow HotSun theme.  A port of Tribal, another beauty of a theme, is hopefully coming soon.

Another must have freeware is the Nokia Search app. You can pretty much search anything in your phone, from calendar entries to text messages to filenames.  It’s a pretty nifty tool to have especially if you keep voluminous text messages and emails.

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I am officially addicted to Super Miners.  I got the demo around a  month ago and I didn’t really get why some people are raving about it.  I picked it up once again the other day and i just couldn’t put it down.  It spurred me to get the full version and I’m now at Level 19.  My normally 4 to 5 day battery life has shrunk down to 30 hours because of this game.

A more thorough review of Super Miners at All About Symbian.

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Akin to the beloved widgets of Mac users, E61 has built in Flash Lite 1.1. Those of us websurfers have experienced Flash in one way or the other; either from those quirky animations passed around on office emails or though tiny games embedded in webpages like my personal favorite, Whack Your Boss.

Smartphone users have always been on the prowl for the perfect app to make their smartphones a little smarter. We’ve always tried to one up each other by being the first one to find that program that will have that little incrimental benefit to our mobile life. With Flash Lite, we no longer need to be limited to Symbian apps specifically written for S60v3 handsets, Adobe Exchange has tons of free apps most of which supports the E61.

Although not all of them (or none of them) runs full screen on the E61, what I like is that there is no need to install anything. Just make a Flash folder on your mini-sd card and load on freewares. The easiest way to access them is just to click on the files on FileManager.

There seems to be a little bit for everyone, from basic cocktail recipes from The Party Bartender, to Stopwatch, to Lady Calendar - an easy way to track down menstrual and ovulation patterns (maybe even moodswings , although why it’s filed under business I’ll never know ). My favorites are BookLook to search for authors, ISBN, etc etc; TapGap Ebay that monitors your watchlists on ebay; MarketReader to be kept abreast with the latest happenings in the financial markets; and mSFO for flight info on major airlines.

There are also some Flash Lite games that caught my eye.

Go Sushi!

President Dance

Micro Invaders

Crazy Taxi Night

and Monster Kick

Also check out the etch-a-sketch Doodle, and Winter, a cool app where you speak to your mobile’s mic and the characters in the app will give you advice or answer your question.

There were some apps that didn’t work well with the E61. Either the softkeys didn’t work as they should, or it just froze. Normally the right softkey exits the application.

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As promised, here are the Grim Oak screenies.

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Electricity was out. Dial tones were non-existent and my mobile phone signal was spotty. My broadband access was down. Metro Manila was hit by the strongest typhoon in the last decade.

Normally where there’s typhoon, I pay no attention. Another day when classes get suspended; certain roads get flooded and I just stay home doing nothing but stare at my computer monitor. This time, however, it was different. Trees were uprooted. 40 foot container trucks toppled down by the strength of typhoon Millenio (Cheesy name, but. . . ). EDSA (the main highway in Metro Manila) looked like a scene from one of my favoritie pre-vis sci-fi movies as most of the giant billboards got stripped away and what was left was the metal trusses and scaffolding.

I was stuck at home with nothing but my E61. Thankfully I had it fully charged wednesday evening. I had nothing else to do but listen to music on OggPlay, finish Darkest Fear: Grim Oak which I got an F for my efforts (they have a ranking system at the end of the game, probably based on the length of time it took to finish the game and the number of putrid muffins collected), laughing at the absurdity of PornManager and fiddling with the tiny joystick playing S-tris 2 (a freeware tetris clone sans the perky russian theme). On a side note, I’m finding myself stripping the pivot silicone case off the phone when I intend to play a game for a lengthy time.

At night, all I had was my E61 with S60SponOn on my pitch black bathroom as I take quick showers and brush my teeth. By friday afternoon, my E61 was running low on juice. Thankfully before phone died power was restored. Still no telephone line, still no dsl.

I’m at a friend’s house today updating my blog. Happily I saw 42 comments, frustratingly most of them were spam. I’ll go through most of your emails and comments when internet is restored at my place, but it’s weirdly comforting that I can post entries once again.

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Darkest Fear: Grim Oak - My current favorite game on the E61. Normally I don’t go for adventure games on my mobile, but this java based game runs full screen on the E61 and features one of the most immersive gameplay I’ve ever experienced on a mobile phone game.

I’ll update this post later with more meat and screenshots.

Check out Midlet-Reviews take on Darkest Fear: Grim Oak.

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I was looking for puzzle games to install on the E61 and I stumbled upon Brain Juice. For those with the Nintendo DS, this game is almost an exact copy of the cult hit Brain Age/Big Brain Academy. In a nutshell, players (and I use the term players very loosely) have to play the mini games daily to train their mental faculties; the more you train, the more mini-games are unlocked. With the E61 being touted as a business phone, I think that games such as these should be a big hit for Digital Chocolate.

The games are quite simple, from counting certain shapes and colors, to guessting which mathematical operation would yield a certain answer, to memorizing a specific path. Most of the mini-games give you a time bonus every time you get to answer a successive number of questions correctly, and the more questions you answer, the questions get tougher. After each game, Brain Juice will assess your performance, if you’re as fast as a cheetah or as slow as a tortoise.

Your progress is charted by Brain Juice, it even profiles your metal aptitude. I’m one of those people who enjoy puzzle games and I can just go on and on playing the mini-games Elevator and Operation. It plays FULL SCREEN on the E61.

Check out other reviews for Brain Juice from IGN and Mobile Review.

Brain Juice is available at Jamster.

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