No more UIQ

I was browsing the web the other day and came across the SDK for UIQ. It instantly sparked my interest as I have a SE P1i so I thought it would be a great opportunity to develop a game on the platform.

I only then found out that UIQ was to be no more as Sony Ericsson had announced they would not be developing any more UIQ phones. Even the new SE Xperia is running Win Mobile. Checking the UIQ website it appeared as though they were working on updating the interface, what a shame.

That obviously made me question whether or not I would want to invest the time and effort into developing for the platform as its future seemed doomed. I must admit I didn’t like UIQ at first but it has grown on me since.

I may download the SDK and have a play around and see what it’s like, never hurts to look.

WoW, again?

 

I started getting my usual WoW withdrawls the other day so I decided to download a 10 day USA trial.

I previously have 2 high level characters on a  European server but unfortunately playing from Barbados the latency is too much for me to bear. It reminds me of the days at University when I to tunnel outside of the network just to play urgh.

That essentially means I have to start a whole new character from level 1. I am very hesitant about creating new characters due to the amount of time it takes to level them up and quite frankly I don’t have nearly as much time as I used to. So the question is what am I going to do. I figured I would see how I felt after the 10 days and go from there.

If I do decide to continue playing it will only be with rested xp which works out fine for me because I can grab a few hours a week and still level up at a decent rate. I am against giving up what little free time I have now to WoW as I have other interests I would like to pursue.

I know what has rekindled my interest in this game again, the upcoming expansion WoTLK. I am curious to see what updates they will bring to the game both in terms of gameplay and graphics. Now I’ve been playing WoW on and off since it’s initial release in 2004 so I have seen the game evolve in the past 4 years only for the better. I have a feeling though that this expansion is going to be more of the same, similar to the BC expansion.

I was considering playing for a month to see how I fair in both interest and game time as that would probably satisfy my cravings.