In February 2007, two of the first ever acceleration sensor applications for S60 were developed by Mobile Computing students at Hagenberg. Back then, only the Nokia 5500 Sport phone featured this sensor.

In the meantime, more S60 phones incorporate this sensor, including the very popular N95 and most upcoming S60 phones. Stefan Damm has now updated gBoarder and CarMeter to support all these phones and also removed some bugs. Of course, the applications are still available as freeware.

gBoarder automatically generates statistics from your snowboarding-trip, including the number of crashes, jumps or the longest jump.

CarMeter measures the g-forces in your car and is also able to display the tilt in off-road mode.

The new mobiPad allows you to use the Nintendo Wii (TM) Remote as a controller for your entire mobile phone. You can use it to play any game on your phone - no matter if it's N-Gage or a Java ME game like Grizzle Dizzle - with a controller optimized for gaming.

You do not need to buy dedicated gaming hardware which you can only use for your mobile phone - simply take the Wii controller with you and you're ready to play. Of course, you can even control "serious" applications like the media player using the controller, thanks to the wireless Bluetooth connection.

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Grizzle Dizzle is a crazy and funny Bluetooth multiplayer game. It builds on the concept of the classic game "Pong" and extends it with some clever new ideas to make the duels even more intense.

As the game was developed in Java ME, it should run on most of the available mobile phones. If you still don't find an opponent to challenge, you can always train in the single player mode against the artificial intelligence.

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The highly useful Panic Lookup plug-in for Carbide.c++ by Wolfgang Damm and Andreas Pum has been updated to v1.1.0 and features improvements based on feedback of the community.

Changes:

• Avkon Panics included
• Panic numbers are displayed without a minus
• Search for error codes by just typing -<error code>
• Bug with automatic panic detection fixed

Download Panic Lookup v1.1.0!

Five Symbian OS slide sets have been updated. As always, they have been improved in various aspects, including corrections, additions and a better design. The updated topics are:

• Console Applications - now includes a document about running console applications on devices
• Communication and Messaging - features more examples than before
• UIQ 3 - mainly design updates
• GUI Architectures - latest handsets, minor changes
• Dynamic Arrays - minur updates