Well, that sounds good. Nice to read. It gives good mood also to try to write some (small) Java games. 
Some years ago Iāve been working for a large IT company and indeed they did use Java (J2EE) heavily (but Iāve been one of the poor C++ boys). From some ex-colleague I hear they still use Java very much. So probably your thoughts are still valid.
I read that last week Nokia said they sold 400 000 units of the N-Gage in total now.
Itās been started in the first October week? If so: this number doesnāt sound really bad, doesnāt it?
[quote]And who tf. wants to play games on a feckinā phone anyway??? I mean - a few kids might, but no serious market is going to fall for that one. What we all want is ultrathin ultralight PDAs with a built in phone. Nuff said. Nokia can take their Ngage and stuff it where the sun doesnāt shine, which might be anywhere in Finland this time of year 
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Donāt dismiss it too quickly.
More and more people are getting phones these days and phones are becomming more powerful.
If you could deliver good games for phones that apeal to casual gamers, you have a large market waiting to be tapped
[quote] I read that last week Nokia said they sold 400 000 units of the N-Gage in total now.
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When I saw that annoucement I immediately guessed that most of the phones are still lying on the store shelvesā¦ but I guess I could be wrong.
Yes thats my understandingā¦ that that num,ber is the number pushed out into the retail channel, which means very little, they could be all returned tomorrow.
What matters is the number sold through to end users which Iād guess is much much smallerā¦
Nice to know your platform is worth hacking, though:
At least it shows someone cares about the games 
ā¦And I think the funniest thing about the current situation is that Sonic has been sucessfully run on competitorās hardware, and it runs fine. No stuttering, frame dropout, sound problems or anything.
Soā¦ Nokiaā¦ whatās special about your hardware again? :