14 DAY TRIAL // Forget everything you know about mobile gaming and about the mobile devices capable of offering their users the chance to play the mobile ported version of their favorite games.
Enough with the crappy looking graphics of the mobile games we all know because a new era of gaming is coming our way, an era that will most probably arrive in the next few years.
At the Dell Europead Innovation event that took place in Marbella, Abizar Vakharia, the global gaming chief from Dell, when asked about a future mobile gaming oriented handheld has declared that "You know, that's definitely one that's on the radar screen".
What does this "definitely" mean? For most of the reporters present at the time he made that statement, it was almost a certainty mainly because Dell handhelds are known to be capable of running full featured games with high quality graphics.
Such an example is the Dell Axim, which is able to run the Quake III first person shooter, and if we start building from this point up a handheld totally dedicated to mobile gaming becomes the next logical step for Dell to take on the mobile market.
However Abizar's declaration cannot be taken as an admission to the question he has replied because no one can tell how far the Dell radar screen goes into the future. It is very possible they will go right ahead to the drawing board and start working on such a thing (as they should do because the interest for such a device on the global market is growing as we speak).
That is if they haven't already started the project after everybody has witnessed the enthusiasm the mobile game addicts have felt when they first saw the Axim running the dreaded Quake III with no PC nearby.
Whatever they may be working on for the moment, a change in their policy is needed because lately they haven't enlarged their product range but, instead, they seem to do everything they are capable of to shrink it down. Not such a healthy thing to do if you ask me, but I guess they know what they're doing.
The thing everybody's waiting for, their gaming handheld, is yet to be officially announced and until that happens, all you mobile gaming maniacs out there should dream on and hope for a happy ending.