Games for the Sciphone i68

Games for the Sciphone i68.
There are plenty of java games for download on the net but most of them don't work.
The reasons could be that internal phone memory is not enough or lack of touchscreen support.

After testing many jar files we could find the ones that did work on this phone.

There are 25 and this is the list:

GAME	Keyboard
Age of empires 2	Touchscreen
AstroPop	JAM Keyboard
Backgammon	Touchscreen
Checkers	Touchscreen
Devil May Cry	JAM Keyboard
Eragon	Touchscreen
Flexis Extreme	Touchscreen
Frogger Evolutions	Virtual Keyboard onscreen
Hitman Blood Money	Virtual Keyboard onscreen
Ice Age 2	JAM Keyboard
Kojak Detective Puzzle	Touchscreen
Magnetic Joe	Touchscreen
Maya Temples of Secrets	JAM Keyboard
Medieval Combat	Touchscreen
MobiChess	Touchscreen
Othello Deluxe	Touchscreen
Pang	Touchscreen
Paris Hilton DQ ML	Touchscreen
Platinum Sudoku	Touchscreen
S Club Manager	JAM Keyboard
Sherlock Holmes	JAM Keyboard
Sims 2 Castaway	JAM Keyboard
SkyForce	JAM Keyboard
Solytare	Touchscreen
TomCatDogFight	Virtual Keyboard onscreen

These games have three different modes to handle the movement on the screen (menus and gameplay) as noted on the table.

Touchscreen: It means we can move the stylus or finger as a mouse selecting objects with a tap.

JAM Keyboard: JAM is a program to migrate games to be able of use touchscreens (this doesn't work on most of them though). The arrows are made with gestures on the screen like a movement from left to right to make the "6" or what would be a right arrow.
A tap on the screen as a "5" or a click to select.
In the next image we can see the way to accomplish the arrows and selections.



Virtual Keyboard onscreen: Like the image noted before but we don't need to make a move. We just need to tap the region according to the number needed.
If you want to go to the right you just need to tap the region with the "6" (as in a virtual phone keyboard).


Download games for the Sciphone i68+


When we get more games we will upgrade the list.

Gmail in the Sciphone i68+

Having a phone like this, with a big screen and an internet connection, one of the first things that came to my mind is how to check emails.

And in this days the account will probably be a gmail one, when almost everyone has one or more of these.

To be able to enter Gmail on the i68+ we can navigate through gmail.com on the Opera-mini browser (see previous post) or we can use a Java app called Gmail-g206

The application uses https so be warned that if your carrier blocks all ports except the 80 you won't be able to access Gmail through this app.
If that is the case the only way will be using Opera-Mini.

Download Gmail-g206

How to install JAVA apps in Sciphone cellphones

One of the best things these phones have is the JAVA support, which gives us the power to add programs and games to the few it includes.

You should remember though that not every game and app out there will work on this phone. Many of them won't load and others will but you wont be able to move it inside because of lack of keyboard support with our Touchscreen.

In this post we will explain how to install the apps to test them if they work. In another post we will put a list of apps and games that work for this phone and the links to download them.

We should start with a .JAR file. I give you a sample with a game to try.

Othello_Deluxe_3D.jar

Connect the sciphone to the USB port of your computer and copy the file to the JAVA folder.
Once done, unplug the cable and in the phone menu go to "Documents", then "Memory Card" and go to the JAVA folder.

Here they are some chinese games you can install and it should be the file we just copied.
Let's click on it and select "Install"

A cup appears and the installation begins. In the middle it asks us if we are sure to install it and we answer YES.
Then let us decide where to install. We should select the memory card.

The installation continues and in the end we can decide if we want to launch the app.

We should test it to see if it works and if we like it. If not we can always go to the JAVA menu, then Java again and in the list of installed apps, just select the one we don't want and then select "Delete".
By doing this we uninstalled the app but the file is still on the memory card. To completely erase it we should go to the Java folder and delete it too.