Microsoft has said that it would consider entering the phone game if its partnership with Nokia went asunder.
The company had done work in the past for the State Department and developed a cell phone game called X-life.
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In "Beijing 2008--The Official Mobile Phone Game of the Olympic Games, " players compete as Olympic athletes in the hammer throw, table tennis and swimming.
Coco Controller - A game controller phone case with buttons that look like those for a video game console.
And as these multiple accounts and methods of synchronization were proliferating on the technology front, some of us were proliferating little ones on the home front, who would one day grow up to want their own email addresses, phone numbers, game center accounts and ways of managing their own stuff.
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Yes says corporate IT, but what happens when the child of the employee tries to use the phone to play a game and punches in too many invalid PIN attempts and causes the phone to be locked?
After sliding your iPhone or Android device into this case, your phone becomes a video game controller.
The general press reaction to the S4 is favorable but with nobody claiming this is a game changing phone or that it will obviously steal customers away from Apple.
"Steve Jobs is trying to cast the iPhone as a great corporate phone and a great small business phone and a great game device, and it can't be all of these things, " Seybold says.
To protect your Impulse Controller while it is tethered to your keychain it comes wrapped in a very clever plastic housing that doubles as a stand for your phone while playing a game in either portrait or landscape mode.
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Mobile phone users could download a mobile game, after which Puma sent them a coupon for a free phone toy accessory.
And you wouldn't have to do anything more than play a computer game on your phone.
But Soma is not really trying to beat the mobile-phone firms at their own game.
With webOS and Symbian out of the game, Windows Phone is now the only alternative to Android for device manufacturers.
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It is the kind of comment you hear in pubs up and down the country and on phone-ins after a game.
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Imagine ads that ask to call you on your phone, or push a game or a contest to your personal computer.
There is so much information created about and by location as people are standing in one spot on their phone tweeting, playing a game or looking for something.
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Gamers can connect their Xbox Live account to their phones, and earn coins playing the game on their phone, which then transfer to their character in Fable 3.
Most cell phone handsets come with a game or two built into the system, but they're usually pretty low-tech or limited in scope, so serious gamers usually download their own.
Playing with the app is pretty much what you'd expect -- touch controls are less than optimal, and the experience is like playing a ported console game on your phone or tablet.
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Skyrim director Todd Howard told Wired.com in a phone interview Monday that the game will feature a never-ending stream of procedurally generated content, giving players an infinite number of things to do.
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What the QD does offer is Bluetooth for syncing and headsets, a large software library including plenty of emulators to play other game ROMs (including GameBoy), a small game-centric phone (that's also easy to text on), and the usual Nokia pluses and minuses.
It also means offering broadband Internet service accessible via a personal digital assistant, game console, cell phone or set-top box.
It would be different if all they had to worry about was the phone, but the days when all you needed was a phone to be in the smartphone game has long gone.
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Among the generation who as children played Electronic Quarterback, graduated to the Game Boy as teens, and lately wasted an hour or three playing some ill-conceived game on a mobile phone during a subway ride, the gaming device to own this year will be the Zodiac from Tapwave.
Meanwhile, both Apple, with its Game Center on the iPhone, and Microsoft, with Xbox Live on the upcoming Windows Phone 7, plan to enable real-time multiplayer game networks on their respective platforms as well.
When does the smart phone market turn into a zero sum game.
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Rovio also has plans to offer the game on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
But would you actually spend the time to play the predictions game with larger groups on your phone?
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