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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Mobile phone film festival
By Max Limpag
Celltalk
Film Festival. A film festival showcasing movies shot using mobile phones opened last week in Paris. The Pocket Film Festival, according to the Agence France Press, “will screen pictures ranging from 30-second shorts to a full-length feature set in Rome.”
The film center hosting the festival gave out 100 3G phones to filmmakers, writers and other artists early this year and asked them to experiment with it. The results are mobile phone films of variousgenre and length, including a one-hour, 30-minute movie.
N-GAGE TUTORIAL. Are you using an N-Gage unit? If until now you find it difficult to download new games or play multi-player titles, go to the N-Gage Academy (see photo) at http://www.n-gage.com/academy.
The site is part of Nokia’s online campaign to teach mobile phone users how to download and share games. Users can also download free mini-games from the site and share it via Bluetooth with other users.
“The N-Gage Academy located only at N-Gage.com is our way of showing how easy it is to download games onto your Nokia mobile phone. Gamers can also send the mini-game to their friends by Bluetooth. The N-Gage Academy campaign shows everyone that mobile gaming is fun and that everyone can play. This is also something we want to do with our next generation of mobile gaming on Nokia smartphones - with fantastic gaming quality,” Nokia said in a press statement.
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS. Queen’s 1977 song We are the Champions was chosen as the favorite song of all time in an online voting sponsored by Sony Ericsson as part of its Walkman phone campaign.
The global survey was conducted in 66 different countries andtranslated into 20 languages.
“With votes being collected from countries as diverse as China, Brazil, Finland, Turkey and the Philippines, the poll really is a reflection of the worldwide appeal of great music,” the company said.
Those who voted in the poll got a chance to win a Sony Ericsson Walkman phone containing the top 100 songs chosen by around 700,000 voters.
Britney Spears’ Toxic is at number 2 while Billie Jean by MichaelJackson is at third place. Rounding up the top 10 are: HotelCalifornia by The Eagles, La Tortura by Shakira, Smells Like TeenSpirit by Nirvana, Yesterday by The Beatles, One by U2, Imagine byJohn Lennon and Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits.
(October 11, 2005 issue)
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