Sony Ericsson M600 manual Browser, Games, Vijay Singh Pro Golf, Qudrapop

White Paper M600

Games

Gaming on the M600 is greatly improved due to the new 3D Hardware accelerator.

Vijay Singh Pro Golf 2005

Vijay Singh Pro Golf 2005 simulates the experience of being the unseated golf champion. This game is one of the best games of golf available on a mobile. Pro Golf 2005 looks and plays like the best console golf sims of the 16-bit era.

•Choose from several golfer archetypes, ranging from the power hitter to the short-game wizard

•Take on Vijay on either nine or 18 holes.

•Choose from three difficulty levels.

•There is a standard swing meter, which uses timed button presses to determine a shot's power and accuracy.

•Aim your shot by rotating your character. The impact this has on your shot's trajectory will simultaneously be shown on a map of the hole.

•Putting uses a familiar meter as well, and it takes place on a wire-frame grid, the purpose is to impress you with the complexity of golf's short game.

In every shot situation, the control feels pretty tight, and there's a distinct difference between clubs. If you want to chip your way out of a bunker, you'd better use a sand wedge. This sort of realism is a must in the simulation category.

This very polished-looking 2D title seamlessly shifts between camera angles. Your viewpoint will shift at least twice on every stroke, highlighting different parts of the shot. In this way, Pro Golf 2005 does a better job of approximating the presentation of tel- evised golf than its 3D competitors.

Qudrapop

Qudrapop is a java™ based game. Qudrapop is a simple yet addictive game. To make an item disap- pear, you need to have at least four items of the same kind in connection with each other. The more items that disappear at the same time, the higher the score. During the game, blocking items may appear, to make it harder for the items to connect. A blocking item will go away only if an item next to it disappears.

Browser

M600 features the integrated Opera 8.0 browser.

The Opera browser has been designed to display practically all Web pages on the Internet. The browser supports the de facto HTML standard “street HTML” (used by most Web developers), JavaScript™, Frames, and the ability to add plug-in applications. This means that the users can access their favourite Web pages. The Opera browser is primarily an HTML browser.

Users can quickly and easily switch between por- trait and landscape presentation as well as change from a normal view with scroll bars to a full screen view. The user can use pen motions to slide the page on the screen.

Users can select fit to screen to reformat pages to fit inside the screen width and eliminate the need for horizontal scrolling. (Small Screen Rendering is supported)

Some key features:

•Tap and hold on a bookmark to display the page in a new window.

•Tap and hold a link to view a context-sensitive menu of alternative actions: an http: link would give the options Open, Open in new window, Open in background and Send as.

•Secure downloads manager that is especially useful for downloading commercial media objects that need to be paid for.

•Pages can be saved for offline viewing.

•All private data can be cleared with one com- mand.

39 February 2006