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Welcome to our archives of older WAP game articles.
- Wired Mobile
Gamers Need Better Devices (10/02) Mobile gaming stands poised to
become a billion-dollar business - but not on today's cell phones, a
Sony executive told an audience at the Cellular Telecommunications and
Internet Association show. Despite the proliferation of cell phones
this year, none of the handsets is good enough for serious gamers,
said John Smedley, chief operations officer for Sony Online
Entertainment. But that doesn't mean that cell-phone service providers
can't and shouldn't bank on games. There are dozens of games written
in J2ME that are available.
- Siemens Mobile betting
shops — place your bets live (7/02) Siemens Information and
Communication Mobile (IC Mobile) has added the option of "live
betting" to its portfolio for mobile data services. M.traction
Gambling enables mobile phone carriers to offer platforms for mobile
betting all over the world. In practice, this means you can use mobile
devices such as PDAs and cellphones to place bets electronically with
the teller wherever you are and whenever you want. Traditionally, and
this includes the internet, bets could only be placed up to just
before the actual event started; now, thanks to m.traction Gambling, a
new form of betting is possible, based on "dynamic odds" and
allowing wagers to be laid while the match or race is still in
progress. The Siemens solution is based on an application from
scaraboo, a start-up company sponsored by Siemens Mobile Acceleration
GmbH.
- HUGIN Get
ready for some serious mobile fun! (3/02) The Nokia 3410 features
Java technology for the mass market. Nokia introduces a new phone for
its expression category, the Nokia 3410, featuring Java(TM) 2 Micro
Edition (J2ME(TM)) support for downloading exciting and fun new
applications. Other new features include a 3D graphics engine and a
Picture Editor. The Nokia 3410 is scheduled to start shipping in
Europe and Africa in the 2nd quarter, 2002. J2ME is a version of Java
technology optimized for small consumer electronics devices. The J2ME
platform of the Nokia 3410 is based on the industry standard Mobile
Information Device Profile 1.0 (MIDP 1.0) which provides the essential
functionality to create compelling applications for mobile use. Users
of the Nokia 3410 can personalize their phone by downloading new Java
applications such as games, virtual pets and animations via the
phone's WAP browser. The Nokia 3410 has a 150 kB memory reserved for
downloading Java applications.
- Telecom.Paper Java
games for mobile phones at Djuice (8/01) Telenor
Mobil's mobile Internet portal, djuice.no, says it is offering seven
new games that can be downloaded from the internet site and stored on
the mobile phone. The games are Java-applications that allow the user
to play without having to be constantly logged on to the Internet.
This opens up for more advanced games at a lesser price.
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