Watch out N-Gage, Nintendo's right on your tail
By Paul Miller 
posted Feb 6th 2007 4:23PM
posted Feb 6th 2007 4:23PM
[Thanks, Steve P]
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wiifone?
nPhone?
Very yes!!
The Pii!!
:P
Captain Awesome?
Thanks guys, I thought youd appreciate the tip.
Smaller size DS clamshell, outershell has a small screen and a numeric keypad. Good to go.
Sounds like the V and enV...probably would get hit with Intellectual Property suits and, even worse, the phone would be a flop due to its gigantic size.
Mario-Mobile, Phontento, The Phone-Chuck, Super Ringtendo, oh my the possibilities!!!!!!!!
Yeah, I love me some Metoroid.
I, for one, can't wait to play Metoroid 2.
I can't wait to play "End" It sounds kind of anticlimactic though.
Anyone notice that the date Fri, Feb 25 only occurred in 1998 and 2005? Do you think this was random or they anticipated this to be released in 2005? Or am I just thinking too much about this?
I worry about the monthly Phii...
Fôntendo?
Hey, those last couple of pics are screen captures - that's what they look like after getting processed by the USPTO. So it looks like this is already in beta as of the time of filing.
Doesn't mean it'll come out, but that's very interesting.
up up down down left right left right B A send
I think they're more... uh... mockups. For illustrative purposes only. Which is grand, because they're decidedly underwhelming (although it would have been killer in 2001.) I wonder what the current internal status of this project is - given that they've already worked a fairly robust wireless solution into their last hand-held. Because they've already taken baby-steps in the direction of radio and wireless, I'd actually favor the chances of a console company making a decent phone over the efforts of a phone manufacturer producing a gaming system (N-gage, I'm looking at you...)
wow what a sweet gaming device. i cant wait to play awesome games on that huge high resolution screen......
sarcasm
Hey, would you guys mind putting pat no.'s in your posts from now on? Sometimes I'd like to see the claims.
Either that, or link it by putting in the number here:
www.pat2pdf.org
The best best for Nintendo if they ever make a phome would be a htc universal-like ....
uh...you mean '96 and '04? It's every 4 years minus one Leap Year every millenia (thus the exclusion of '00).
omg! there's an in incoming call! Hopefully one will be able to ignore the in incoming calls and keep playing metoroid 2.
No Nintendo! Bad! Built a cell phone like the DS and allow DS(/GB/A) gaming capability (via some VC-like shop (GB/A games) (which should be able to use VC cards (credits, whatever, I don't own a Wii yet :( )))
http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat7069044.pdf
It's pat no. 7069044.
Apparently, it's a dual processor phone; one processor for games and one for phone operations. It has a shared memory for entering an interrupt in the game so that you can attend to the phone functions.
It must be a kind of automatic pause function for the gaming processor.
The 25th, not the 29th.
sweet dude check out that huge hi res screen
I read the title and got excited. Oh Engadget, why do you tease me so.
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Nokias_Next_Gen_Gaming_Platform_on_target_to_win.php
"Seriousgamer007" may have been correct all along?
He mnetined that Ninend oIS going to release this "Cell Phone Game Boy" oh his blog now defunct..that is the adrees doesnt work but you can see the archive here: www.archive.org Then type the address into the WAY BACK MACHINE: http://www.seriousgamer007.blogspot.com
AND Get reading. Trust me the Cell PhONE GAME BOY STORY IS THERE!
iF yOU ALL CANT FIND IT i WILL LOOK AND POST A DIRECT LINK.
This patent may be old and took the office so long to actually issue ,aybe becasue it is still in effect!
You never know?
Anyway, I never owned a cell phone. I am do not like them. So I definetly wouldn't buy this even it stamped Nintendo!
http://web.archive.org/web/20051217234634/seriousgamer007.blogspot.com/2005/10/nintendo-to-develop-cell-phone.html
There we go.
N-Gage failed, dunno why Ninty would even think about this.
Hmm maybe it could be a slider... Dpad, A and B and a screen and a keypad slides out
silverfish re mockups
Well, considering that you're not allowed to use shading in USPTO figures unless they are screen captures or photographs, I doubt that they're just 'mock-ups'.
I didn't say that it was a photo of a mobile device, but it has to be at least a capture of an emulator window for the UI to be allowable as a FIG in a US pat.
Looks like a Skype type phone that interfaces with the Wii's internet connection via Bluetooth?? I would buy that.
I said this last year..The next Game Boy will be a Cell Phone.
With the Virtual Console in place, Nintendo is in a good place to do it now more then ever.