Demo Of Hardware Accelerated Bounce Boing Voyage On Nokia N900 Looks Freakin Awesome



I just came across yet another Nokia N900 walkthrough video but what makes it different from all other hands-on previews that appeared since its official release last week is the eye-catching demo of the Bounce Boing Voyage game that reveals beautiful 3D graphic which takes advantage of the build in 3D hardware graphics acceleration!

The rendering quality offered by a hardware accelerated core and the OMAP chipset is obviously a lot better than through software rendering.

The addition of high-performance hardware, Filtering Modes, MIPMapping and higher resolution textures massively improve the appearance of objects removing the ugly, pixelated blockiness seen in software rendering games on a new Nokia's N-Gage platform.

PowerVR hardware 3D graphics acceleration brings a powerful 3D experience to both casual and more advanced gamers who have come to expect high-performance gaming on their devices. Stunning hardware accelerated graphic, beautiful effect and intuitive motion based controls makes the N-Gage version of the same game silly and puts Nokia N97 to shame!



The Nokia N82 was the last company’s device based on the great OMAP chipset with support for hardware accelerated graphic and instead to continue and expand the use of high-end hardware Nokia has decided to move focus on gameplay over graphics instead of producing phones powerful enough to process high quality graphics without negative effect on the gameplay which resulted with massive migration of hard core game players to Apple’s iPhone platform!

The PowerVR hardware acceleration core from Imagination Technologies delivers the performance needed to port console class games not only to Nokia N900 but also to S60 devices powered with the OMAP3 chipset, phones like Sony Ericsson Satio or Samsung Omnia HD.

The biggest advantage hardware 3D brings is "filling power". In software accelerated 3D implementations the main processor has to take care of rendering each pixel. With hardware 3D the graphics processor takes care of this which means that the main CPU can handle everything else simultaneously with the graphics processor, significantly speeding things up.

Thanks to saved power for the CPU, it is possible to push a lot more polygons. For example, when the GPU is rendering an object, the CPU can calculate the transformations and projections for the next object. This naturally means more detailed objects in the games developed.

I just hope that high-end hardware will not remain Maemo exclusive and that Nokia will follow its competitors and use the same hardware architecture on Symbian devices as well!!

Few sample screenshots generated with OMAP 2420
   


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Nokia N900: TV-Out Demonstration



Rcadden over at Maemo-Guru published this video demo of the N900 using the TV-Out feature while playing the game Bounce.

    Video demo of the new Bounce game specially designed for the Nokia N900 using Maemo 5. The game is shown using the TV-Out feature, and you can really see how awesome the graphics are



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Nokia N97 Vs N97 Mini – Whats the differences?



The folks at fonearena presents an exclusive interview with a Nokia Rep about the key differences between the Nokia N97 mini and the N97.



Take also a look at this post that my buddy Normal at Symbian World published regarding the N97 and N97 Mini differences.

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Nokia N900 in-depth Maemo browser demo



This latest demo of the Nokia N900 gives you an in-depth look at the Maemo 5 browser in action, and offers some smart tips on how to get the most from it. The full internet in your pocket.



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CTIA: Nokia Demoes N900 Tablet With Maemo and Linux

At CTIA, we sat down with Nokia, who gave us a demo of their N900 tablet, a device that fits somewhere between small tablet and smartphone, much like the HTC Athena. Unlike traditional Nokia phones that are powered by Symbian, this device runs the Nokia's version of the Maemo OS, which is built on top of Linux, has a sliding QWERTY keyboard, resistive touchscreen, and is highly customizable.



The N900 made a big splash early on as the device was said to support the full version of Adobe Flash 9. However, since then, Nokia's lead has diminished as Adobe has announced that the full version of Flash 10 will be coming to most major smartphone platforms, including Windows Mobile--that means desktop-class browsing on your Windows phone.

The funny thing is that I ran into some Nokia reps at an event later that evening and Nokia was boasting about the device having USB hosting capabilities and can serve as a miniaturized personal computer. Sorry, Nokia, but hasn't that idea been done before--years ago even? Even the "PDA-era" Toshia e740 performed the task of USB host to connect HID devices (keyboards, mouse) and hard drives to the little Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 device. Today, the Toshiba TG01 is supposed to continue the USB hosting tradition with Windows Mobile 6.5. While I admit the design and software of the Nokia N900 really stood out, they're boasting the wrong feature set to someone who has been following the PDA/smartphone industry for well over a decade. 

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Nokia N900 can ride the Google Wave



We're not talking about some mobile version here à la iPhone, no sir. MobileDeveloperTV has itself a Maemo-powered Nokia N900, and sure enough, it runs the full version of Google Wave. There looks to be some lag between the keyboard and text box, but if you're hankering to mash up Espoo's latest and greatest with the G man's latest and greatest, there's nothing standing in your way. See for yourself, victorious laughs and all, in the video after the break.



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