A mobile game is a commercial product that is distributed to the customer using mobile operator's network.

Devices used for mobile games include Cellular redirects here. For the 2004 movie see Cellular (movie). A mobile phone, the Sony Ericsson T630 A mobile phone is a device which behaves as a normal telephone whilst being able to move over a wide area (cf. cordless phone which acts as a telephone only within a limited... mobile phones and Palm IIIxe PDA Personal digital assistants (PDAs or palmtops) are handheld devices that were originally designed as personal organizers, but became much more versatile over the years. A basic PDA usually includes a clock, date book, address book, task list, memo pad and a simple calculator. One major advantage of... Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) devices.

Mobile Games are developed using technologies such as Sun's J2ME (Java2 Micro Edition) Qualcomm's BREW (Binary Runtime for Wireless) or Infusio's ExEn (Execution Environment). Other platforms are also available, but not as common.

Mobile Games tend to be small in scope and often rely on good gameplay over flashy graphics, due to the lack of processing power of the client devices. One major problem for developers and publishers of mobile games is describing a game in such detail that it gives the customer enough information to make a purchasing decision. Currently, Mobile Games are mainly sold through Network Carriers / Operators portals and this means there are only a few lines of text and perhaps a screenshot of the game to excite the customer. Two strategies are followed by developers and publishers to combat this lack of purchasing information, firstly there is a reliance on powerful brands and licences that impart a suggestion of quality to the game such as Tomb Raider is a 1996 computer game originally published by Eidos Interactive and developed by Core Design. The game features the fictional character Lara Croft, a buxom female archaeologist in search of ancient treasures, à la Indiana Jones. There have been several sequels. Video game Screenshot Tomb Raider (PlayStation) The first... Tomb Raider or Colin McRae is the second-most successful World Rally Championship driver of all time, having won 25 WRC rallies. He was born in Lanark, Scotland, 5 August 1968. He was awarded the title of MBE, or Member of the British Empire in 1996. His father was legendary rally driver Jimmy... Colin Mcrae and secondly there is the use of well known and established play patterns (game play mechanics that are instantly recognisable) such as Tetris on the Nintendo Game Boy Tetris is a computer game invented by Alexey Pajitnov in 1985, while he was working for the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, inspired by a pentominoes game he had purchased earlier. Tetris is one of the best-known computer games ever devised, thanks partly... Tetris, Space Invaders was an arcade video game designed and programmed by Toshihiro Nishikado and originally manufactured by Taito; it was licensed for production in the US by the Midway Manufacturing division of Bally. Released in 1978, it ranks as one of the most influential video games ever created. Though simplistic... Space Invaders or The poker room at the Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, NJ. Poker is a card game, the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, after which the pot is awarded to the... Poker. Both these strategies are used to decrease the perceived level of risk that the customer feels when choosing a game to download from the carrier’s deck.

Recent innovations in mobile games include Singleplayer, Multiplayer and 3D graphics. Virtual love games belong to both of singleplayer and multiplayer games. They can solve the problem that people feel lonely in the morden life, help people find their love and happy mood in the virtual world. Multiplayer games are quickly finding an audience, as players find the ability to play against other people, a natural extension of their mobile phone’s connectivity.

While multiplayer is becoming an essential facet of mobile games, the increase in development cost for developing 3D games is preventing many developers from implementing this technology.

External links

• Commercial site describing mobile phone features from the USA point of view. (http://www.hellomobile.com/cell-phones-wireless-101.htm)
• Cell Phone Safety (http://www.cellphonesafetyguide.com)
• How Cell Phones Work (http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone.htm)
• Linux on mobile phones (http://tuxmobil.org/phones_linux.html)
• Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium (http://www.mobileprinting.org/home) ( A stylised representation of a mobile phone A mobile phone is a device which behaves as a normal telephone whilst being able to move over a wide area (cf. cordless phone which acts as a telephone only within a limited range). Mobile phones allow connections to be made to the... MIPC).
• An integrated phone, mp3, camera and PDA device (http://www.philippwesche.org/old1/hw.html)
• Wikipedia on WAP enabled cellular phones (http://www.en.wapedia.org)
• Wireless Local Number Portability - WLNP (http://www.hellomobile.com/number-portability.htm)
• Mobile Banking (http://www.tutorial-reports.com/mobile/mobile-banking)