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TTPCom Demonstrates B’ngo – a Novel New Mobile
Gaming Device
at 3GSM World Congress 17 February 2003
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True Multiplayer Games Over Wireless Networks
Leading wireless specialist TTPCom is enabling new entrants to the growing
mobile gaming market with the launch today of an exciting new mobile
game player, code-named B’ngo. The product, the first example of
which is being demonstrated on TTPCom’s stand A3, Hall 1 at 3GSM
World Congress, is a console-style games player as well as a fully-featured
mobile phone. The complete product design is available for immediate
license.
B’ngo has been designed with the needs of the mobile gamer foremost
in mind. The product is equipped with both Bluetooth™ and GPRS;
the former allowing interactive multi-player games, up to a maximum of
8 people, in close proximity, whilst the latter allows larger gaming
communities spread across the entire network. B’ngo has a high
quality colour screen and four dedicated game keys plus a novel rotating
key for speed of movement. For console style games B’ngo utilises
TTPCom’s Wireless Graphics Engine (WGE). WGE software offers a
particularly exciting game playing experience because it enables the
use of simultaneous key presses in which the user can move and shoot
at the same time – a facility not generally available today on
other mobile gaming phones.
WGE is shipping in commercial handsets today, and through its WGE activities
TTPCom has formed relationships with leading games houses. Over 100 games
compatible with WGE are available from developers including Elite, Digital
Bridges and ITE. B’ngo is supplied with a
selection of embedded games and comes with the facility to download new
games over the air, thereby providing network operators with future revenue
streams and increased ARPU.
B’ngo is equipped with full mobile phone functionality including
tri-band operation for usability throughout the world, an embedded digital
camera, multimedia messaging service (MMS), GPRS class 10, polyphonic
ringtones and predictive text entry.
“We’re looking at imaginative ways of using our intellectual
property, and combining the expertise that we’ve developed in wireless
gaming, with our knowledge of low cost handset designs, has enabled us
to create a totally new mobile games player,” said Tony Milbourn,
Managing Director of TTPCom. “With B’ngo we’re providing
a gaming experience that is second to none, plus a fully integrated mobile
phone featuring the latest and most exciting technology such as digital
camera support and MMS.”
He continued “For the entry level product we’ve used all
our experience in software development to get the best out of the existing
hardware and thereby keep the cost low. Those who’ve seen the demonstrator
are very surprised when they find that we can enable multiple key presses
and run sophisticated console style games on an ARM7 processor.”
The B’ngo design is fully scalable, from mass market entry level
models featuring C++ games running on an ARM7 processor, through to high
end products compatible with emerging operating systems, Java™ games
and additional processing power. With such a wide range of technology
options, the B’ngo design offers licensees considerable scope in
the development of differentiated products. B’ngo is smaller in
size than existing games consoles and it is expected that the entry level
design will retail in the sub $200 category before operator subsidies.
Design Specification - Key Features:
B’ngo is a fully scalable platform for the development of differentiated
products from entry level to high end. B’ngo sets a benchmark for
other mobile games players to follow and includes:
- Colour backlit LCD (TFT 176*220 pixel, 16 bit colour depth, more
than 65k colours)
- GPRS Multislot Class 10. Class B operation
- Advanced Messaging (SMS,
EMS and MMS)
- Integral Digital Still Camera (DSC)
- Triband (900MHz/1800Mhz/1900MHz)
- Downloadable ringing tunes, graphics
and games
- Wireless Graphics Engine (WGE) software
- 6 Embedded high-quality multi-player
colour games
- Compatible with C++ and Java games (Java in high-end product)
- Novel
entry key that can rotate in both directions to improve navigation
through the user interface and enhance the gaming experience
- Digital
Rights Management (DRM) software to protect gaming and musical content
- Bluetooth™
- WAP 2.0 Browser
- Predictive Text Entry T9™
- Polyphonic Ringer for Midi ringtones
- Selectable screen-savers and
screen wallpaper
ROMS.mobi - Nes, SNES and GBA emulation for Cell phones. R4 Roms and Gamez.
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