From the promotional videos on its Web site, it's clear that Tapwave is gunning to compete against Finnish mobile-phone giant Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ), whose N-Gage mobile-phone and gaming device should hit the market in early October.
Nintendo will have to wait and see whether these titles can help maintain their dominance in the handheld market with the upcoming Nokia N-Gage, Sony's recently announced PlayStation Portable, as well as improving mobile games.
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In fact, emotion and reason work closely together, as has been demonstrated by Antonio Damasio, the man who revived Gage's 19th-century fame in the 20th century.
Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) has a wireless phone on the way called the N-Gage, which we noted here in February, that is being aimed at the same grownup gamer that Tapwave wants to reach.
But Dr. Gage also has a long-standing interest in gene therapy.
Nokia, however, is hoping that'll change in the next couple of years, and intends to incorporate N-Gage gaming capabilities into future smartphones -- not just game-phones.
This summer Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) released the N-Gage QD, a phone with a large color screen and built in control pad for gaming.
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Tapwave has made little secret about its intention to compete head-to-head with Nokia's N-Gage device, which is set to debut next month, but which has received considerable negative buzz in the runup to release.
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