Nokia N97

Review of SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 For Symbian^1

May 25, 2010

Alongside Touchflo 3D by HTC, SPB Mobile Shell has been one of the most popular user-interfaces for Windows Mobile devices for many years – and justly so. It makes Microsoft’s in many ways archaic OS more slick and up-to-date, and back in October last year, I recommended version 3.5 of the UI that had just [...]

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Tutorial: How to Hide Sound Files from Symbian’s Music Player

April 22, 2010

I have quite a lot of ringtones and notification sounds on my phone, and also sound files from the adventure games that I play with ScummVM – all of which I do not want to show up in Symbian’s native music player on my Nokia N97. These miscellaneous tracks are not a problem when you [...]

Posted in Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 3rd Ed., 5th Edition, Default, How to, Music Player, Native, Nokia N97, Remove, Songs, Sound files, Sounds, Symbian, Tutorial | 1 Response

Play Classic LucasArts Adventure Games on Your Symbian Phone With ScummVM

April 17, 2010

Learn how to play 90s DOS adventure game classics on your phone with ScummVM, like Sam & Max, Simon the Sorcerer and Monkey Island.

Posted in Featured Posts, Games + Emu, Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 5th Edition, Adventure Games, Emulation, FAQ, Full Throttle, Guide, Instructions, LucasArts, N97 Mini, Nokia N97, Ports, Retro, Sam & Max, SCUMM, ScummVM, Sierra, Symbian^1, Tutorial | 7 Responses

Old-School Games on the Nokia N97 via TV-Out

March 15, 2010

Last week, I decided to give my Nokia N97’s TV-out feature a try and see what it would look like when I played some retro games on the television. I was pretty geeked out when I realized how well it worked [...]

Posted in Featured Posts, For Fun, Games + Emu, Symbian, Videos | Tagged Adventure Games, DOS, Emulation, Game Boy, GBA, Lucas Arts, NES, Nintendo, Nokia N97, Ports, Quake, S60v5, ScummVM, Sega, TV-out, vBag, vBoy | 2 Responses

How to Play Quake and Quake 2 on Symbian^1 (Nokia N97)

March 8, 2010

This is certainly not the first guide to running Quake and Quake 2 on the Symbian^1 powered Nokia N97, but hopefully it will compensate for its lateness by being one of the most thorough and comprehensive.

Posted in Featured Posts, Games + Emu, Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 5th Edition, Emulation, Guide, Hinkka, How to, Nokia N97, Port, Ports, Quake, Quake II, S60v5, Symbian^1, Tutorial, Video | 40 Responses

Sega Emulation on the Nokia N97, N97 Mini & Symbian^1

March 5, 2010

A guide to playing classic Sega Mega Drive/Genesis games on your Symbian^1 powered phone, like the Nokia N97 and N97 Mini, using a nifty little emulator called PicoDrive.

Posted in Featured Posts, Games + Emu, Guides & Articles, Symbian | Tagged 5th Edition, Emulation, Guide, How to, MasterGear, N97 Mini, Nokia N97, PicoDrive, QWERTY, S60v5, Sega, Symbian^1, Tutorial | 37 Responses

Nokia N97

March 5, 2009

Quick Specifications: Status: Expected in June 2009 OS: Symbian S60 5th Edition Weight: 150g Screen: 3.5″, 16M colors, TFT resistive touchscreen Resolution: 360×640 pixels Camera: 5MP (Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, LED flash) Memory: 32GB internal memory Card slot: microSDHC CPU: Single CPU, 434 MHz ARM11 RAM: 128MB Networks: Quad-band GSM, HSDPA Full Specs at GSMArena.com [...]

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