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July 10th, 2007, 12:15 GMT · By Elena Balan

Vollee Brings PC Games on Mobile Phones

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Vollee solution shrinks PC games to the size of mobile phone screens
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The best PC games out there have the tendency of eventually being adapted for mobile phone use too. Vollee brings a solution which leaves out all the waiting and makes it possible to enjoy the best PC games on the personal
handset.

The technology which is used for this greatly resembles that which manages to bring television on mobile phones by using the 3G network. It is the same case with Vollee's solution. It basically allows people to take the live video of the game onto the small screen of the handset.

Sounds quite appealing, especially as the number of mobile phone gaming fans is quite large. With this application, the phone basically acts just like a device replacing the PC by using Volle's servers.

Still, it turns out that the entire concept might have some disadvantages. Playing a mobile game is more difficult than doing the same thing on a PC, when considering the small control buttons. Even the tiny display has high chances of hindering the way that the player perceives the game and might also take some fun out of it all.

"By leveraging the power of 3G networks, Vollee is able to offer subscribers a radically improved mobile gaming experience - it's a landscape-changing solution.", said Dunsby, former vice president of sales and operations, at mobile services and engineering firm inCode Wireless.

Volle brings along with its services several appreciated titles from some of the best PC games available. Moreover, it manages to adapt them perfectly for mobile phone gaming as to bring them at full potential and without having to compromise the graphics, except the fact that the image is considerably smaller this way.

This makes an excellent alternative to the way that games used to be played on cellulars until now and places the mobile phones on the same grounds with PCs when playing against each other. Still, whether that is a good thing, is a questionable matter.

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