I believe we're all thinking the same: why not WoW? or Guild Wars? SL has only 250k real users, WoW has like 10 millions. And SL is going belly up lately, it looks like a virtual ghost town. Dunno, maybe Blizzard wanted too much money... Anyway, I think it would be really cool to have a remote play like the one in PSP but for most cellphones. Most phones already have the hardware, 3G is around the corner, is all down to who's the first to make the software. Source
3G's around the corner for you. Asia and Europe have had 3g for a long time and no one has used it for anything interesting in gaming. So dont expect anything much just because 3G is around the corner.
Just becos nobody did it yet doesnt means nobody else is going to. How's the data rates there BTW? 'cause remote play needs a lot.
Something like 3gb per month for like $30. I cant remember i dont bother with it. (thats the rate for like a 3g usb modem too). Look for three network and their rates. They are a 3g only network so the cheapest around.
3G isn't anything to get worked up about. All you get is faster downloads and err.... that's it. Well, you can also stream audio and video but why bother with the cost of it all ? Yakumo
And the energy toll! 3G drains my battery (30%more battery consumed), so I ve turned it off entirely on my 3G phone.
Therefore 3G isnt exactly "ready for primetime" am I right? Crappy battery life and expensive rates isnt what most users want, specially for gaming...
I personally love 3G, so what if its only faster, faster is great! In terms of cost, I pay £7.50 for 1GB (i think) of 3G/GPRS/EDGE, and its fantastic, I can sit and read emails and news on the bus rather than something boring and 20th century like a book!
I've a Blackberry with an unlimited EDGE data plan. I write half of my email from there, but this forum isnt that compatible with the browser.
Actually, just remembered that I now get the data free having blagged it on my latest contract renewal!
Well around here, "3" is a phone company that sells 3G phones, and subscriptions. But at the same time, they cheat and screws their sustomers over bigtime and their service (internet too) sucks. So my point of view when it comes to 3G is: Fuck 3 and 3G !
I was thinking about switching an unlimited 3G plan here at home for about 40 dollars. The speed is currently 2 Mbps, but there're some moments or places where the download speed falls to like 20 KB/s... OH: Even when 3G services are here since a couple of years they're just becoming popular, so probably the services will be more stable for the end of this year. BTW Shadowlayer, I'm pretty sure that there's a version of Opera mobile available for Blackberry devices, and for my experience the ultra-lightweight Opera Mini can handle this forum system. Maybe it can solve the incompatibility issues:thumbsup:
Yeah but I cant get it installed. Aparently my company doesnt wants us to get any other browser in it, but hey the default one works for 90% of my stuff. Thats what I'm saying, the whole place is empty. The hype ran out quickly, mostly when hordes of losers went there thinking that becos some guy was a theorethical millionaire they could become the next one. Then they saw you can barely break even in SL, and I think most were making just $10 a month. But the silver bullet were a series of raids made by Linden which destroyed the gambling business. With it both banking and real state went straight to the gutter.
3G is too much expensive, and useless in a phone. Calls aren't gonna sound crisper for having a 256 kbps connection. About the video call, I got a 3G phone a pair of years ago. Used the video call with a pair of friends and family, haha, very cool wow, etc, never used again. It's too much expensive. And, my 3G SIM card got screwed, so now I'm using a very old SIM card which only has GPRS and since I lost my ID card I cannot get a new card with 3G compatibility. Oh wow. Anyway, I wouldn't get a new one for using 3G. Not worth the 2.60 euros that I have to pay for going and getting back from downtown.
If I did pay attention to my phone company... They didn't charged me for a whole year of GPRS web connection 'cause they didn't know that a java app could connect to internet in an "obsolete" Motorola C650 (that was what they told me when I asked them how to do it, even when the phone was just released in the moment). Then some idiot found it out in mid 2005 and now I have to pay 2 dollars for a single megabyte of GPRS data transfer. Then I had the reason I needed to get a DSL connection.
