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.
Sadly, the iPod, iPhone, Zune and Windows Mobile aren't supported yet, but the rest of the device list is pretty decent: it includes the BlackBerry Pearl, Storm, and Curve, the G1, Sony Ericsson Cybershot and Walkman phones, the Kindle, Nokia N and E-series phones, and most digital cameras and flash-based camcorders.
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Initially the system will allow file-sharing with Sony's PSP games console, Nokia's N-series mobile, Sony Ericsson's Walkman and Cybershot handsets and Microsoft's Windows Mobile smartphones.
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.
Nokia's N-gage mobile games business also suffered setbacks.
With its N-Gage wireless gaming platform, Nokia throws down a challenge to Nintendo's Game Boy.
N-Gage project, insists that Nokia has a unique advantage: its understanding of mobile communications.
Nokia's latest and greatest N-series devices just hit the market like a trio of well-aimed bricks -- or at least that's what Nokia's hoping.
According to The Really Mobile Project, Nokia will drop S60 from all of its flagship N-series consumer devices in favor of Maemo.
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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.
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.
Nokia also moved its finance, personnel and technology chiefs from Helsinki to White Plains, N.
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