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[skaldicpoet9]

True. Also, game design wise, it's quite interesting to be able to use a strong network such as the telephone. I'm pretty sure that numerous games will allow the player to communicate between them while playing a game. And I'm not even thinking about all the possibilities of using speech inside the actual game. We've seen how the DS can use a microphone, it's just a matter of time before cell phone game designers use this avenue.

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Yeah, that'll definitely be interesting to see....remember Seaman? lol...I couldn't resist...

[shinygerbil]

Don't they also have systems in Japan where you can save your coin-op settings/characters to your mobile? That sort of thing is where mobile phones could really take off; they're kinda unique on that front, because they have the chance to be really ubiquitous. Instead, we see all these varying standards and systems. I think if they were to become more of a standard platform, then we could (and would) see a lot more interesting uses for them. The problem is, this incredibly fast-moving market for newer, bigger, faster phones means that any standard would be obsolete in 6 months' time - so part of the challenge is to create a more future-proof platform specification for all (read: the mainstream majority of) phones to comform to. But then, people would begin to lose interest in the new-gadgety-ness of these big flashy things, I am sure.

(on a side note; I just bought Lumines for my phone. It's actually quite good, but not as replayable as I'd like, so far. )