Gaming on a Nokia 5800

At first, before the introduction of ovi store, users have to hunt for games out there, although java games aplenty, but only few supported touch and 16:9 display. But the thing is, non-nokia-generic (java) games graphics arent eye candies and performance sucked on any phone.

So then xdancery got introduced by some chinese developers, i stumbled upon it on youtube. Then that was the most proper game you can find online.

Well, right now ovi store features games like the raging thunder and stuff by polar bit, which is also quite a decent game for nokia 5800. Graphics are rendered in OpenGL ES and frame rates are amazing, silky smooth but the overall presentation of games are like games from 1990s (think of daytona USA, but who cares, but at least the games are playable, fun. The reason why nokia can keep up with the frame rates is because the games run in very low resolution and heavily anti aliased, so everything looked muddy.

The major setback of nokia 5800 (or generally all the touch screen phones of nokia) is the lack of capacitive touchscreen, which it can register more than one touch at anytime. For example the game Toon Warz another fps from polar bit is almost unplayable and controls are ridiculous as you can only control your character with only one input at a time. It's impossible to aim and you can only walk front back left right at a time and then release touch to aim.

And also, a GPU for the phones is also recommeded. There are lots of cool games out there for the nokia 5800 but the hardware is limiting what the games can do. Perhaps a PowerVR GPU accelerator can be useful... bah i hate describing things in context i just wanna blurb out everything right now so goodbye