The Mapsters Game (Prizes to be won!)

September 11, 2008 at 9:12 pm | In Applications, Competition, Fun, Games, Nokia | 3 Comments

There’s an addicting game over at themapsters.com that tests out your knowledge of world geography; and if you’re good enough, your high score could get you the Nokia 6120 Navigator, Navigation Licence to unlock the full potential of your Nokia Maps software and even some mapster toys! Maptor’s my personal favourite already, haha.

The game is actually on the bottom right of the screen. I clicked select Mapster at first and just got confused as to how that was addictive, but the actual proper game itself is quite fun. A name of a city appears and you must, against the clock, get your map pin centered as close as you can to where you think it is. Then submit your score along with your email and you could if your score is high enough get a prize. The more times you play, the more city locations you’ll (hopefully) remember.

Below you’ll see my shocking 3641km miss of Moscow. Hey, at least I was still in Russia. :p

I have 2 hours left to do a day’s worth of packing as I’m moving out to Uni again, but gonna play some more and try and get Maptor! Aww, look at that tail!

Arrived in Amsterdam!

December 4, 2007 at 7:17 pm | In 3rd edition, Eseries, Fun, Linux, Nokia, Nseries, S60 | Leave a Comment

Still very pleased with the consistently quick satellite locking times of the N82. I was able to get it out in short bursts on the way to the airport just to check where the driver had been going (I swear he went past the same museum 5 times).

Amsterdam – lovely place, quain, almost English architechture. Lots and lots of people on bikes though; and it seems exactly the same type of bike… and everyone rides with no hands on the bars (one on the phone, the other in the pocket) haha. Met the whole Amsterdam-WOM group – everyone’s awesome!

Got through quite a few interesting presentations today, actually arriving in the middle of media Porn business (yes, I too thought, wtf, but it had a lot of relevancy to the whole Nokia marketing strategy…well it made sense at the time), then Nokia UI vision: Point and Find, MobiYouTube, and Swipe and Pay mobile wallets. More on this is future posts.

I also finally got to play with the N810. Super quick initial thoughts…I hate the wobble on the slider, and the buttons on the face. But other than that, it’s really nice. Brighter screen, touch screen is way more responsive (I was able to draw without lagging unlike the N800 even on latest firmware) and of course the qwerty keypad. It was nicer to input text on that I thought, and perhaps with some practice it would get easier to use.

Anyway, must dash, everyone is leaving again for the party tonight!

Missed out on Maroon 5, got Pop4real autographed N81 CD ^_^

September 18, 2007 at 3:44 pm | In Fun, Go Play, Nseries | Leave a Comment

The only member of the London Go Play group that got to see Maroon 5 in the evening was Scott from N-Gage Forums (EMO15). Lucky git had Adam Levine inches from him swapping Hi’s! *jealous*

The following day, I met up with the Go Play crew, played around with the new devices and went for a tour around London (we went on an amphibious duck boat/bus around the Thames).

Anyway, today I received a box with a Go Play poster and a signed N81 CD by POP4REAL, lol, Nokia Nseries’ latest big thing :p

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If you haven’t seen the group, here’s the music video:


Here’s the poster.

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Hmm…I’m not exactly sure what that poster is for. It seems to be the people who didn’t attend the event as I’m aware Getti a.k.a. Daniel Carter – a very nice guy I met at CES 2007, was supposed to go but didn’t make it.

Stefan of intomobile got his CD Yesterday:

(Click for Stefan’s N81 CD) 

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