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...stretch, considering the screens are smaller than a pack of matches and the keys are about as large as Tic Tacs. But for some, these stripped-down games are the perfect way to kill time while waiting for the bus or standing in line at the supermarket. Every Nokia phone sold today comes with four or five games built in. This summer Ericsson will offer phones with mini versions of Tetris and Solitaire. And at an annual gaming convention two weeks ago in Los Angeles, Nokia announced a developers' program that will bring to cell phones everything from chess...
...skeptic until I tested what's already here. It doesn't look like much, but a game called Snake, which is on most Nokia phones, is highly addictive. In a kind of virtual scavenger hunt, players collect pieces of "food" scattered onscreen. The more food you collect, the longer your onscreen "snake" grows, and the more points you get. To maneuver, you press the 2 key to move up, the 8 key to go down and so on. I was even more impressed by the upcoming version of Tetris that Ericsson managed to squeeze into its T28 world phone. Even...
...begin offering an array of games you can play over their networks. Users will pay for them just as they do for a regular cell-phone call. In return, they'll get such options as playing poker with a friend in Fresno or entering the lottery on the fly. Nokia has even shown a text-based detective game. Rather than clicking on a picture as you would in Myst, say, you read a bit of the storyline, then choose what to do next from a list of options. Activision plans to adapt favorites like Asteroids and Space Invaders for cell...
...smile is more Stuart Smalley than business genius, but sit down with Jorma Ollila and it quickly becomes clear that Nokia's chairman and ceo doesn't need to practice Daily Affirmation. He knows he and his people are good enough and smart enough to make the world's best mobile phones--and that, yes, people like them, buying more Nokias than Motorolas or Ericssons (Nos. 2 and 3 in the market, respectively). Yet after listening to Ollila, 49, tell of his Finnish firm's transformation from a money-losing industrial conglomerate better known for toilet paper and tires into...
...truth is, Nokia has had an amazing run, tripling sales and driving its stock price up 2000% in five years. Industry experts give Nokia much of the credit for the world's growing infatuation with mobile communications, and few doubt that the next phase of the wireless revolution will also be led by the Finns. A whopping 70% of the inhabitants of this small country straddling the Arctic Circle carry mobile phones--the world's highest penetration (and more than double the U.S. rate). It's a phenomenon attributable to liberal telecom-licensing policies (which stimulated early innovation...