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A smarter way of playing Tetris

November 26, 2011 | By Luke

There are no buttons to control falling tetrominoes. Just tilt the phone and use gestures to fully control everything what happens on the screen. This is AccelTetris.

AccelTetris is different than other tetromino games. Blocks fall smoothly, their movement is continuous, instead of jumping on cells. It provides a smoother and more natural experience. The graphics of AccelTetris was inspired by Metro style, but also has its own flavor that give it a unique charm. The essence of the visual experience is crumbling blocks of filled lines.

AccelTetris has many personalization options including:

6 different block textures;
4 backgrounds;
ability to use your accent color.

atetris The gameplay provides:

7 starting speeds;
speeding up.

AccelTetris is $0.99 with a free trial. Have fun!

See more screen shots after the break.
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Magic Flip – Unique Windows Phone 7 action game

October 7, 2011 | By Bishoymly

qrcode Flip your phone following an increasingly challenging orders like shake, tap, up, down, stop….

An action packed game, full of fun and addiction. Challenge your friends or cooperate with them.

No phones were harmed in the making of this game.

Price: 0.99$
Trial includes first 4 levels of the game, the full version includes the rest of 9 levels, challenge and party modes.

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Slamming Paperballs Into The Bin – 3D Game Version

July 15, 2011 | By A Trillion Games

3D Paperball is a 3d “sequel” of the classic 2d paperball tossing games ubiquitous on all mobile platforms.

The goal is still flicking a paperball into the bin, but this time the evil fan is gone, and you can use bounces against objects to redirect the ball into the goal, or shake the phone to slam the ball into the basket, gaining bonus shots and producing amusing visual effects.

The game, released today by A Trillion Games, features credible 3d phisics, a very realistic 3d environment, multiple shooting styles, endless gameplay and the ability to compete instantly in a global leaderboard.

3D Paperball is free and available in the following languages: English, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Español.

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For Developers: HTC HD2 recruited for Windows Phone 7 app development

August 2, 2010 | By Surur

If you are not lucky enough to be one of the developers to get an actual Windows Phone 7 developer device you will be stuck testing your application in the emulator, which is missing features such as the accelerometer all Windows Phone 7 devices will have.

Solutions so far have included using a Wii controller via Bluetooth, but its likely a Windows Phone 7 developer will have a recent Windows Mobile phone lying around, which already has an accelerometer built in.

Prabhu Kumar has developed a client and server system where his software will read accelerometer data from an HTC HD2 and transfer it to the emulator, where it can be used to simulate the sensor in the emulator, allowing games and such to be tested much more easily.

For the full source-code and guide to implementation read more at GeekswithBlogs.com here.

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Latest HTC patent aims to provide anti-shake for video viewing

April 3, 2010 | By Surur

HTC has continued to beaver away at adding small nice touches to their software offerings. The latest is pretty interesting, and make it easier to view video on an unstable platform such as a car.

The software would use an accelerometer or other motion sensor to detect unintended movement of the phone while playing video and move the image on the screen in the opposite direction, ensuring the image always appear stable is space.

HTC summarized the patent application as such:

A method for displaying a video, a mobile electronic device thereof and a storage medium thereof. In the present method, first, the video is displayed on a screen of the mobile electronic device. Then, an acceleration variance of the mobile electronic device is detected through a sensor of the mobile electronic device. Next, a display area of the video in the screen is adjusted according to the acceleration variance. As a result, a user can comfortably watch the video displayed in the screen of the mobile electronic device even in an unstable state.

Now the only question is will this actually make car sickness better or worse?

Read the full patent here.

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Microsoft develops technology for turning your body into a control surface

March 2, 2010 | By Surur

Chris Harrison at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, along with Dan Morris and Desney Tan at Microsoft’s research lab have created a system that allows users to use their own hands and arms as touch screens by detecting the various ultralow-frequency sounds produced when tapping different parts of the skin.

An armband houses an array of sensors that collect the signals generated by the skin taps and then calculates which part of the display you want to activate.

The system closes the loop using a pico-projector to show menus and other selectable media on your arm and the complete system has an accuracy of 95.5%.

More details can be found in this Microsoft Research paper.

It is unlikely the system will find implementation in our smartphones any time soon, but I do wonder if the accelerometer in our current devices are sensitive enough for a crude version that can do volume up, down, pause and start? Any developers interested in giving it a try?

Via ZDNet.com

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Resco Snake 1.11 for Windows Mobile reviewed

February 17, 2010 | By Surur

Resco Snake is Resco’s interpretation of the classic game “Snake” and they’ve done a good job with it. You control your little snake through 24 levels (in full colour) over 4 ‘seasons’ and you get to battle a boss level enemy at the end of each season. There are also three levels of difficulty to choose from. The menus are friendly enough on your fingers that you never need a stylus but sadly it doesn’t support using D-Pads. The game is controlled using the G-sensor to “steer” your snake which means you can’t re-create the style of the original Snake …

Read more at BestWindowsMobileApps here.

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Zensor 2 – a new twist on screen rotation

August 30, 2009 | By Surur

Zensor 2 is an application for automatically rotating your screen using HTC Touch Pro / HTC Touch Diamond’s GSensor.

Unlike most other applications, Zensor is written to only detect firm moves, skipping moves done by your mobile moving in your pocket or when walking.

In order to change orientation, first make sure you keep your HTC phone in a horizontal position (face up) and firmly move it to either landscape or portrait mode, to force a change.

In order to make Zensor learn a new application (and whether to rotate it or not), simply move the device firmly from a face up position to an upside down position.

This application is only designed to work with HTC devices with accelerometers.

Download the freeware from Endorser here or download directly using this tinyurl in your mobile browser: tinyurl.com/zensor2

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Super-sensitive motion sensor comes to the Toshiba TG01

July 22, 2009 | By Surur

Usuda Research Institute & Systems Corp in Japan has developed an accessory for the Toshiba TG01 which brings Wii Motion Plus-like technology to the device.

The module was uses a MEMS motion sensor and the company’s proprietary software technology. It is intended exclusively for the "T-01A," (Japan’s Toshiba TG01) one of the latest handsets released by NTT DoCoMo Inc.

The MEMS sensor does not only measure acceleration, but also angular velocity sensors, and in the demo video below allows a user to use his phone as a window upon a virtual world.

The TG01 has USB host functionality, and the module uses this interface to communicate with the TG01.

It can also be controlled by the T-01A’s touch screen and be used to view pictures taken by the TG01’s camera.

See 2 videos of the hardware/software combo in action after the break.

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G-off Display – nice freeware which turns your screen off when you turn your phone upside down.

June 12, 2009 | By Surur

G-off Display is a great single-use utility that performs one task and does it well – when you turn your phone upside down it will switch your backlight off to save your battery charge, and confirm this with a little vibration.

The idea seems so simple and useful it seems like something HTC should have implemented.

Download the cab from Freewarepocketpc.com here.

Via FuzeMobility.com

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GRemote Pro sees a major update, now supports seamless bluetooth connections

June 9, 2009 | By Surur

GRemote Pro was one of the first applications to bring remote desktop control to the new generation of Windows Mobile phones with advanced sensors, like the accelerometers and capacitive control areas. Today the product has seen a significant update to version 1.1 which brings native support for low power bluetooth connections, while still preserving all the functionality of the software.

While the software still needs a server on the desktop, this allows a lot more functionality than just emulating a mouse and keyboard such as Media Player control and Joystick emulation. The software still works over WIFI also, and support other features like user-created skins.

All major screen resolutions are supported, as well as Windows Mobile 5 upwards.

See the video below for the app in action.

The software is a free upgrade to current GRemote Pro owners and is available for new buyers from our software store at $14.99 here.

New Throttlelock beta has really cool 3D effect

May 21, 2009 | By Surur

Throttlelock 0.7 will be released soon, and features an amazing new 3D effect which we have previously only seen in a TAT video mock-up.

The application takes the original Android pattern unlock concept much further than Google ever did, and shows the advantage of 3rd party software being able to access the platform at a low level. Hopefully we will soon see much more of the same.

Via Fuzemobility.com

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Shake & Win lottery number generator

March 24, 2009 | By Surur

Having trouble deciding on your lottery numbers? If you have a HTC Touch Diamond or Pro Hermanm has the answer.

His app, Shake & Win, is a Lottery Number Generator. It works by shaking the phone and features an attractive graphical UI.

HOW TO USE
Shake the phone to generate numbers.
If you want to select some manual numbers or scroll to something, click the button under the wheel.
Click the lock button to lock all numbers in place (prevent accidental shakes)
Middle button on the NAV pad exits the program.

Read more and download the app from this XDA-Developers thread here.

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