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3-D Gaming on Your Cellphone
to_kallon writes "As game devices, cellphones leave something to be desired. Most of the games found on them are rudimentary, with flat, cartoonish graphics and simple scenes.
But that is going to change. Soon cellphone owners will be able to play games with realistic three-dimensional graphics rivaling those on PC's and game consoles."
WOW. Imagine Duke Nuke Forever on your cellphone... I can hardly wait.
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Whoo Whoo, Now I have more stupid people coming at me while I am driving.
Soon cellphone owners will be able to play games with realistic three-dimensional graphics rivaling those on PC's and game consoles.
Rivaling, eh? I don't know about that. Besides, would you rather stare entranced at a 1 X 1 screen, or a 25 inch TV? Which do you think is better for your eyes?
Maybe we will finally see Halo on another platform, keyboard and mouse be damned!
The cooling fans for the graphics chip double as rotors so your phone simply flies alongside you. Also available with built-in camera if you need your personal sentinel drone!
Now you can have a cell phone that plays music, takes picturs, surfs the net, plays games , sends email, lets you insant message, and sounds terrible when trying to make a stinkin phone call!!!
It's great that cellphones are getting more advanced, but I'm afraid a mini-3D chip running off of a 2 ounce battery displaying on a 2" screen is not going to be rivaling PCs anytime soon.
Though who knows, maybe the new cell phones will have a DVI connector and a port of Doom 3.
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with realistic three-dimensional graphics rivaling those on PC's and game consoles
uh huh. You might be interested in my new skateboard whose performance will rival that of motorcycles and cars.
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Nothing like a blazingly fast 3D experience on a 1.5" 300px wide screen.
It's nice that the technology is there, but I can't help but feel indifferent about it.
Who doesn't like free music?
running on my cell phone at a mind blowing 100x80 resolution at 11 FPS.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
I saw an ad for a cell phone that went like this:
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Guy is at restaurant, pulls out cell phone and starts using the built-in pepper mill.
Want a cell phone with features you really need? We've got 'em! With games, cool ringtones, a camera,
I'd get a hell of a lot more use out of a pepper mill than any of that other crap. I don't want to play gmaes on my cell phone - I want to have a phone conversation. I don't want to take a low-quality picture on my phone - if I wanted a camera, I'd buy one. I don't want to have cool ringtones - if I wanted to get shot, I'd at least do it in style by making a daring daylight robbery of Fort Knox on elephant-back.
Give me a phone that I can use for phone calls. Any feature that does not directly enhance the ability to place, receive, and carry on a phone conversation is entirely superfluous to me.
Just remember that the more advanced features these phones get, the cheaper your plain jane phone will be.
Very soon the day will come that people can compare the heatsink fans mounted on their cell phones.
Where's the sungularity? Where's the life altering technologies? Where's the ability to enhance my reality to something that doesn't suck more than the suckiest thing that ever sucked? Where's the sexbots? Even my gadammned wonder-DirecTivo box still misses the beginning or ending of a show when the *F*U*C*K*E*D* *U*P* networks decide that they are going to adhere to a time zone in the Bizarro universe. It's that or search for bitter-torrents on web servers of a dubious nature.
Where's the vast superscience solutions to the world's ailments we were promised at World's Fairs dating back to the late Miocene? "Some day, Ugg, we will control fire, and there will one day be delicious iron skillet seared aged beef steaks as far as the eye can see." Is anyone working on this? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
The technological pinnacle of the Earth's history, and all we can work on is how to put some grotty 3D game into a cheap, plastic phone. More time will be spent optimizing the numer of dropped frames than the number of dropped calls. Intercell handoff, my ass! More like intercell fumble and turnover that lost the big game.
Hey, you could put Madden 2005 on the phone, and a fumble animation can be displayed whenever your phone call is dropped into the abyss, or a referee calling interference when more than 2 dB of background noise makes the person on the other end unintelligible. And if the girlfriend calls, it can show the Star Player[tm] fielding a call about the nine paternity suits aginst him. Just a gentle reminder to wear those condoms, boys, from the SUPERSCIENCE phone company.
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Silly, he's simply referring to the 90 seconds necessary to complete auto inflation.. you can't safely take her until she's at the proper air pressure. You risk injuring her, or yourself otherwise.. sheesh
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