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SIM To Become a Storage Card, DRM Controller

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for gsm carriers this is sweet...................

sowhatsowhat10

Feb 17, 2006, 4:47 PM
imagine a one time purchase of a game unless your phone is lost or stolen.

but i could see gsm carriers charging monthly for games now 🙄 .
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Superguy

Feb 17, 2006, 5:28 PM
It isn't really anything that transflash memory cards can't provide now as long as the phones allow it.

It seemed like a good idea until I saw the DRM thing on it. DRM can go to hell.

Super
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Roadkill

Feb 17, 2006, 5:56 PM
imagine a one time purchase of a game unless your phone is lost or stolen.

Dream on. Do you have any idea how many different versions of games we have to ship in order to support all of the different handsets carriers use? I recently released a moderately well supported game that required 30+ builds.

"Standardization" is a 4-letter word amongst the carriers and the hardware manufacturers, particularly for GSM. Sprint has been doing a pretty good job with their recently released handsets, and BREW is more-or-less a consistent standard if you're careful with your coding.

But Cingular and T-Mobile? Hahahahahaha!

Then again, by the time this becomes widespread we might actually have standard operating systems, chipsets, an...
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Me2

Feb 17, 2006, 6:20 PM
Imagine the replacement fee for one of those sims!!?!?!?! 😲
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pauldg

Feb 17, 2006, 7:13 PM
and if a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its a** when it jumps 🤣
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