Mobile Phone Games World

Cambodia has banned the 3G technology over fears of porn and seduction. This report from the English Peoples daily has the low down:

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced a 10-year ban on the “3G” mobile phones on Friday, after his wife Bun Rany and the wives of several other top government officials petitioned him to do so, warning that the phones could be used by women to seduce men with pornography.

This is a very different stance from other governments who have made a lot of money from the 3G network auctions. The delay is until an “appropriate time in the future when the social morality is improved.”

And it is on your mobile, at least if you have 3.

from 5 June 3 are launching a preview/review show for the world cup called Berlin or Bust.

Fronted by presenter Sam Delaney and with a host of footy-loving celebrities
on the guest list, from the Kaiser Chiefs to Ray Winstone, Berlin
or Bust will be a riotous magazine show, in contrast to the BBC and
ITV suited and booted studio commentary teams

In addition there will be a 4 minute highlight program available 5 minutes after each game, all free to 3 subscribers

The new N Gage game that is not for the N Gage?

Nokia have announced a new all singing, all dancing fishing game and posted details on their N Gage portal, however it would appear that the game will not play on the N-gage!

Good news for all other N Series owners, but possibly the game that heralds the demise of the N-Gage…..

Other details are sketchy at the moment, basically lots of fish and some good looking graphics, but no expected release date.

The Hong Kong telephone company PCCW has started broadcasting TV to its 3G network

For trial users, this service covers the underground network (great place to reach a captive audience) but should spread to all of Hong Kong by the end of June.

There are 110,000 trial subscribers who can view a Cantonese-language Business News Channel and other news and sports content, with other entertainment content following.

Hutchison 3G UK have announced that their customers downloaded over 1 million music traks and videos over the last month, representing 17% of the music download market.

The 3.5 million customers that 3 have are spending an average of US$65.40 per month on communications, entertainment and information services.

The Philippines are considering a tax on SMS messages reports the Manila Standard although this may be linited to text based gaming and surveys.

This is on an estimated 165 million text messages sent each day by the 33 million mobile phone subscribers.

Tech Digest report on Sky’s plans to offer live football and cricket via Vodaphone 3G, starting with League playoffs on 6 May 2006.

With 15 live football matches and three live Test matches, over 100 hours of live coverage is planned for the first month alone, with cricket coverage continung through to the final Test against Pakistan.