Looking back at the Symbian mobile phones and games from ten years ago with today's eyes, the more I look at them, the more they look like works of art.
Although the emergence of IOS and Android systems has made the image and sound quality of mobile games steadily improve, in the past ten years of development, most mobile games have put the cart before the horse and ignored the playability and originality of mobile games .
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In order to find the most glorious period of Saipan mobile games, Uncle Monster spent nearly half a month collecting basic information.
Hello everyone, this is a new column [Saipan Archaeological Team]. In this column, everyone will review the excellent games of the Saipan period and understand the little-known history of mobile games during that period.
A universal company in the mobile phone industry
In 1980, a former top student at Trinity College in Cambridge, London, a PhD from Imperial College London, Warwick , Sheffield , Edinburgh and York University received honorary doctorates —— David E. Porter founded a company called Psion.
Psion was one of the first manufacturers in Europe to produce the microcomputer (and PDA), and David E. Porter designed the world's first portable computer.
With the continuous upgrading of mobile phones, in 1988, Psion's business began to tilt in the direction of "small mobile device operating systems";
In 1998, Psion was jointly founded with Nokia , Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Panasonic Symbian Limited.
Two years later, The first mobile phone using the Saiba system, "Ericsson R380sc" , was born. It pioneered the use of personal digital assistants on mobile phones and opened up ideas for the subsequent development of smart phones.
With the successive additions of Siemens , Samsung , LG, Lenovo , and Arima, by 2004 Symbian system had spread to more than 80% of the mobile phone market.
In December 2008, Nokia acquired the remaining 52% of Symbian shares, but the emergence of IOS and Android only a year later had a huge impact on Symbian, so that Nokia began to decline continuously in the next three years;
Finally, in 2012, Nokia 808 PureView became the last mobile phone equipped with Symbian system in the world, and the era of Symbian ended.
Amazing Symbian game inventory
In the 12 years of development and operation of the Symbian system, countless Symbian mobile games have appeared;
The foreign Symbian games found by Uncle Monster alone include an astonishing 2,322 , even more Not to mention those unpopular Symbian mobile games that have been erased from the website, domestically produced games, and not many people know about them.
The development of Symbian mobile games can be roughly divided into three stages, the early stage of pre-installation, the medium stage of paid purchase, and the later stage of download and transmission.
In the early days when data networks had not yet appeared, mobile games basically only had black and white pixel games such as "Snake", " Arkanoid " pre-installed by manufacturers, which were puzzle mobile games to kill time. , relaxed and interesting but not immersive for a long time.
In Uncle Monster’s impression, it was around 2004 that operators such as China Mobile launched a service for purchasing mobile games via text messages. The phone bill could be deducted for payment, and then the operator would send text messages to users to download mobile games;
At this time, many The more playable JAVA mobile game began to appear along with the color screen , but few people would pay the relatively expensive fee at the time to download mobile games to play, at least in China.
Around 2007, the convenient 2G, 3G network and computer data transmission functions opened up the first craze of mobile games;
transplanted mobile games and original mobile games designed based on the Symbian system mushroomed, and stand-alone mobile games , online games are all available.
The most impressive thing is: 39 mailbox
community and other sites headed by mobile operators have launched a large number of mobile games. The number is quite scary, and most of them are high-quality products that can be played for a short period of time, including paid in-app purchases. What follows.
In the following 5 years, countless Symbian mobile games were put on the shelves, but due to technical limitations, many games and data at that time have been lost; and Uncle Monster originally conceived this column to use websites and books etc., as well as some experiencers and witnesses who still have preservation of Symbian mobile phones and games, to restore, discover, and preserve these extremely precious information, so that Symbian games will not be gradually obliterated by the dust of history.
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