I'd like to advance a proposal, mainly to Nokia's Tableteer site developers. There's no need to explain why a better gaming experience on the internet tablets could boost user-base: of course, for a "high-level" portable gaming experience we'll buy a GBA/DS/PSP/GP2X etc.; I know 770/800 is not a gaming platform, but if we have a 770/800 in our pocket, and we're in gaming mood, and we have no money for a new good game for our GBA these times, why not benefit of our ITB's (Internet Tablet) nice display and touch screen? Let me soon underline that I'm not going to ask for a better hardware for games, or a better button pad, etc.: nothing needs to be changed, but gaming experience on ITB can be *extremely* boosted with a relatively simple initiative, better if supported by Nokia itself for its success - let me explain it, I hope I succeed in making you see its potential how I do, and take action. You all know how the Nintendo Wii has gained poularity, and sells. With this nice console in their living room, plenty of users have access to the Internet in a very straightforward way, just like the ITB does on the go (incidentally, this reminds me the main current trends of Microsoft and Apple: Microsoft at home, Apple on the go). The Nintendo Wii can be considered, imho, a great alley for Nokia Internet Tablets sells and popularity: can you see why? I own a Nokia 770: let me say that gaming experience, out of the box, is very poor. Tak has done a very good job with emulators porting, but this cannot be considered a solution: first, most users don't own so much arcade boards and nes cartridges in order to legally play their favourite games through emulators; second, the hardware keys simply cannot be used for a smooth gameplay; third, the average user will not easily find and follow the route to emugaming on its tablet. So, why the Wii can be an alley? Because you can see that lots of Flash developers are creating plenty of very nice and enjoyable games... with Wii in mind. As the Opera browser can display Flash content, they adapt their old games or create new ones scaling down needed resources, fitting a TV display, and - above all - making them playable *with just the mouse*. This is the real point: just-mouse games! Wait: this means not that I'm going to propose we should use those games on the ITB (even if some of those work almost perfectly on my 770, if I set "quality: low" for Flash content display). My suggestion really is: --->>> steal the "wiicade.com" idea! [1] <<<--- It is a site collecting Flash games adapted to be used on the Nintendo Wii console; there's also a voting system, top-rated list, newest ones list, search by name field, etc.; developers can submit games (to promote their sites, or whatever) and the games are free to use, and easy to find. No installation required, no repository in the Application catalogue needed, no dependencies, nothing: want to play? click and enjoy! Are you bored? Close your browser, or browse back and try another one I hate Flash sites. But when it comes to games, a Flash plugin can really turn a web browser in a simple yet powerful sandbox-embedded-gaming-platform. So, we already have built-in in our tablets this nice web browser and this popular "embedded-game-platform" plugin: and they're the same choice made by Nintendo, one of the best gaming companies of the world, for their newest console; they're some versions older on ITBs, though, but they are not that bad (and sometimes "old" means "faster" too). As many "mouse-only concept" free Flash games are popping out following the Wii trend, Nokia should take advantage of that and gain some popularity from those users who could enjoy a portable device capable of providing access to plenty of *free* nice games (have I underlined the word "free" enough? Not only free, but easy to "install" (well, no installation is required at all), easy to "uninstall" (well, no uninstallation is required at all), easy to store and load when offline (they are just swf files, the built-in file manager can access them from a memory card just like a mame frontend does on zipped roms archives), easy to adapt for developers (it's Flash after all). So, if still you have no idea of what is my proposal, here it is finally: The default main page in the browser on ITB is the Tableteer: we already have a big link to the "Fun for Kids" section, where some games are linked to be downloaded and installed. Good, let's share the "Fun for Kids" label, even if we all know those "kids" can eventually be more than 30 years old sometimes There, I can see fitting the link for a service similar to wiicade.com, where developers can submit their games, specifically adapted for use on the Internet Tablets. Of course, there will be a clear separation between "Nokia 770" games and "Nokia N800" games, where 770 ones will be Flash 6 compatible, scaled down with simple gfx and optimizations for better performance on the slow 770 CPU, loaded with Flash in low-quality mode (no antialias) by default, adjusted for absolute mouse positions (as the touchscreen requires), and eventually better fitting the display size. I suspect these are not so difficult tasks for good Flash developers, but I could be wrong: by the way, even if difficult, it could be worth (increase audience). Besides, Wii and ITB owners could play the very same games in their living-room, and on the go: so the ITB could be a must for Wii owners and extreme gamers who love to play some free games when they can't access their Wii I'm thinking here to games where a code makes the player jump to some level of the game, or games where training is never enough. So that's all folks: I hope this long message can convey my idea to the right readers. Here are some notes and the links following. Note: wiicade.com is not the only site offering Wii-wise games, e.g.: [2]. Note 2: as an example of a Wii-wise game working nice on the 770 you can browse to [3] (put Flash in low-quality mode for best performance). [1] http://wiicade.com [2] http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/wii/ [3] http://www.wiicade.com/playGame.aspx?gameID=68