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Ask The Editors: What's the best cell phone for gaming?By Sindre Lia, 18 April 2008
One of our readers asks one of the hardest questions a cell phone expert can get. Read on to get the answer.

Reader's question:

What's the best cell phone for gaming?

Editor's answer:

Truth be told, there are very few (if any) cell phones out there at the time of writing that deserve being mentioned in the same sentence as the word gaming, so we don't have any test material suggesting that one specific cell phone is the best for gaming. That's about to change though, as chipsets for cell phones will soon offer the integrated graphics power required to take it all to the next level. Both Broadcom (Nokia partner) and Qualcomm (Microsoft partner) have announced new chipsets of this kind that should appear in cell phones in 2009, so we wouldn't be surprised to see Nokia and Microsoft go head-to-head in the mobile gaming market soon.

As for cell phones capable of gaming today, most manufacturers offer models that support a range of mobile game titles from leading game publishers. Nokia have already gone as far as launching a dedicated gaming service, N-Gage, for N-series models such as the N95 and N82. But none of the supported N-series models are really optimized for gaming, and the same applies for other manufacturers' cell phones with gaming support.

In order to get a better view of the mobile game title support in new cell phones, we've created four carrier charts based on EA Mobile's portfolio, and let the numbers speak for itself:

AT&T Wireless:

Motorola RAZR2 V9 39
LG Trax 38
Samsung A737 37
Sony Ericsson Z750 33
LG Shine 31
Nokia 6555 28
Motorola Z9 19
Samsung BlackJack II 17


Verizon Wireless:

LG VX8550 Chocolate 28
Samsung u740 27
LG Venus 23
Motorola RAZR2 V9m 22
LG Voyager 20


Sprint:

Motorola RAZR2 V9m 27
Sanyo Katana DLX 26
Sanyo PRO 700 16
LG Rumor 8
Samsung UpStage 8


T-Mobile:

Nokia 5300 20
Motorola RIZR Z3 18
Samsung Blast 17
Best Multimedia phones
Name Score Price Carrier
C
Sony Ericsson W760 72% $360Unlocked
Samsung Instinct 72% $230Sprint
LG Chocolate 3 71% $100Verizon Wireless
Nokia 5310 XpressMusic 70% $50T-Mobile
LG Muziq 67% $150Sprint
Nokia 5610 XpressMusic 67% $100T-Mobile
LG VX8550 Chocolate 66% $100Verizon Wireless
Sony Ericsson W580i 66% $80AT&T
LG Decoy VX8610 65% $180Verizon Wireless
Helio Fin 64% $125Helio
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