The LG SV360 rocks! Besides the PSP and Nintendo DS most of the rest of the exhibition floor was covered with 3D rendering for mobile games. Except for this guy! In an earlier review:
although of course suffering from the does-two-things-good-but-neither-one-really-well syndrome, is quite an intriguing little device. To blame? The built-in accelerometer which lets you control games by moving the SV360 around mid-air.
And what fun it is. Boasting a graphics accelerator chip capable of cranking out 1 million polygons per second, games playing on the unit I fondled in Cannes were actually rather nice for a) not being developed by an established brand name, and b) playing on a mobile phone. To top things off, a 2.2″ TFT colour display with what appeared to be QVGA resolution proved sufficient screen estate to actually play games and not just squint at them.
I played a snowboarding game which was controlled by moving the device itself! And I have to admit it was completely fun! I’m sure there are some more interesting things we can think of that will utilize an accelerometer rather than just for single player gaming. I wonder if multiplayer games could contain a component where you had to control balance and positioning, maybe you are riding two persons on dog sled, or motorcycle, or maybe you are both walking toward each other on a narrow swaying bridge through the jungle.
Also on Friday, Will Wright gave a great talk revealing his new game: Spore! Much like SIMS it involves content and world creation on the part of the player. If you have ever wanted to build your own world in space or maybe a bubble world on Mars, or better yet travel out of the galaxy. You will now be able to do it. As well, it allows you to port living species from one place to colonize the next, but careful execution must be taken as not all living environments elicit the same organic properties. So if you take a being from the moon to Pluto, but forget to build in conditions to allow them to breathe or live… they’ll blow up! Right there in front of you.
Please remember the oxygen!
Anita
Wow, whatever a LG SV360 is, it sure sounds great reading what you have written about it!
By the way, maybe you could help me. Can you suggest a decent bluetooth tri-band phone? I’ve had it with wires, honestly and I’d like my company to get me a phone which will work in more than one country.
Thanks a lot 🙂
Sure! If you can help me out with a bit more of what you are looking for I can probably help even more. But to start, if you are looking for a nice, usable, small phone with nice features. I actually really like the Nokia 6230. You can currently get it on Cingular and it uses Edge… it’s really quite fast! If you are looking more for a basic smart phone, I’d suggest Nokia 6620 (Cingular). Again, Edge, Tri-band, good features, but a smart phone… so it does even more and is Symbian. Finally, if you are looking for something that you will really find useful and love because it actually has a nice camera and a great swivel design, look at Sony Ericsson s710a (Cingular). 1.3 megaPixel camera, flash, Edge! Personally, that’s the one I would get. For me the image quality is just so crucial! 640×480 just doesn’t cut it… at all! (The Motorola Razr V3 is nice, but lacks the quality camera.)
Hope that helps. Here is another article that tells you some things to look out for in buying a tri-band phone too. http://www.kemplar.com/simlife.htm .
If you need more help, feel free to reply or send me mail.
Anita