The countdown coninues with Diamond Cubes. You'll really enjoy this if you're a fan of dice games. The Diamond Cubes application is a cute little dice throwing widget. Up to 5 standard dice can be selected and they are thrown by shaking your Windows Mobile g-sensor device. With a rattling dice sound effect (which can be turned off) the dice come to a rest on a green felt background.
However as with BeMario, it is little more than a bit of fun, again to demonstrate the uses of g-sensor. I certainly wouldn’t recommend any form of gaming with these simulated dice, not least because they seem to be loaded in favour of throwing a 2. Ten minutes of trying, and not one snake eyes!
Touchdown is a cool helicopter game, where the aim is to guide the helicopter beyond some obstacles and enemy missiles to a safe landing area.
Control of the armoured and heavily armed helicopter is either via touchscreen, the phone control pad or by motion sensitivity. It’s difficult to begin with, but ultimate satisfying. Two levels currently exist, with more to come.
This amazing application allows the navigation through your Windows Mobile 6.1 GUI via simple hand gestures!
It utilises the g-sensor to control a cursor which highlights each onscreen button in turn, as well as detecting movement (such as left to right) to run through the Windows Mobile 6.1 TouchFlo 3D interface. Complete with calibration software, GController is another useful application that shows the path that mobile devices will be taking in the near future.
This is a great set of software, and developers are only just scratching the surface of what is possible with the g-sensor on the modern Windows Mobile devices. There’s much more to come from this exciting technology. All of the software reviewed in this article can be downloaded from FreewarePocketPC.net.