Nokia 8800 - First Among Equals
By Gian Bryan

When it come to witnessing a different and altogether ringtone in the Nokia series of products, it is none other than Nokia 8800 model to bet upon.Finnish mobile giant Nokia has first time in its array of products, has introduced Ryuichi Sakamoto Ringtones in the 8800 model.

The mobile phone measuring 107 x 45 x 16.5 mm in dimension and 134 gram in weight is added with many high – end features like Digital Music Player, FM Radio in its music portfolio; SMS (Text Messaging), MMS (Multimedia Messaging) in its messaging section; Embedded Java Games, Downloadable Java Games in the game section; and moreover Bluetooth and EDGE platforms to get connected to the world.With all these array of features beginning from the digital music player to messaging, to game and to connectivity; the users of this trend-setting mobile set do not find any tools missing what they expect from their companion – Nokia 8800.

Well, talking about its over all look, the Nokia 8800 comes in a stainless steel cover, opening with pop-up slider mechanism. When it is opened, the slider reveals an in-built camera of 0.5 megapixel on the back, as well as a good-looking, stylish keypad in the front.The other features of the phone that are of much importance are its Bluetooth, GPRS, EDGE and GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz for data and voice connectivity. All these frequencies incorporated in the phone facilitates its users to get seamlessly connected no matter in which part of the world they are living or travelling.

And for those who are much concerned about their mobile standby time and talk time. Nokia claims the 8800 model has a talk time of 3 hours and a standby time of 8 days.With all these good features; no doubt the Nokia 8800 has some few ´mild´ bad features as well with its cramped keypad and inconsistent battery life.

mobile games

Mobile Games are widely popular nowadays, as younger generation has been very much interested in playing games with the support of their mobile. They are nothing but video games played on your mobile phone. Recently introduced mobiles have come with animated games to entertain the users in multiple ways. Most of the games have been featured with real sound effects. When you play them, you may have a real effect of playing them. It is important to make use of certain communicational options like MMS, SMS or GPRS.

Most of the leading mobile manufacturers have embedded some interesting games at the time of manufacturing itself. When you do not get satisfied with those in-built games, you may download your favourite games through the Internet. There are some free mobile games are offered by certain websites. The other way of getting advanced games in your mobile phone is through the infrared feature. It is simple to get interesting games from Bluetooth which is nothing but a wireless connection.

Usually most of the mobile games have been downloaded through the radio network of the concerned operators. Platforms are very essential to develop mobile games. Java was the only platform for most of the mobile games. Some of the widely popular platforms are listed below:

• Windows Mobile

• Palm OS

• Symbian OS

• DoCoMo's DoJa

• Macromedia's Flash Lite

• WIPI etc.

Some of the high end mobile phones have colour screens to improve the quality of the games. Now there is possibility to enjoy even 3G graphics in some mobile games. Certain mobile games can be played with the support of localization technology. Those games have known as location based games. GPS is also an example of location based games.

Mobile games do have its limitations. The user will not get the complete information regarding the rules and method of playing the game in details.