Everyone knows the scenario. You get off of work late and miss your train. Now you are looking at a 40 minute wait for the next train and then still another 30 minute trainride until you get home. What do do? You check your Android phone for messages, take out your Apple Mp3 player and then what? How about playing a mobile game? ‘But all the games on my mobile phone are lame.’ No problem, how about cloud gaming for your HTC mobile phone?

 

Cloud content for mobile gaming
Thats right. While the technology is just hitting the market, soon you will be able to access the best and newest titles ingaming directly from your moble device using cloud technology. No downloads, no console, no discs. The main difference lies in the cloud concept, where data is stored online like a Youtube video, not in your hardrive like your music files or ringtones. The wonderful people on OnLive have already brough this technology to our living rooms and is now working with HTC and maybe Android in the future.

Gaming for mobile phones
Yet, the concept of could gaming for mobile phones still needs to be worked out. The first challenge is the size of the data transfers. A ringtone has a file size of maybe 100kb, but playing a game using a OneLive cloud game for one hour can amount to a 2.3 GB data transfer. Another challengeis fast and reliable data connections. Therefore, this is just anotyher reason to pick yourself up a Apple iPhone 4 or the HTC Evo Shift 4G.