PDA Games Keep Business Travelers Occupied
One of the possibly unintended uses of may PDAs may be their ability to help users pass time while waiting in meetings, motel rooms or on airline is the multitude of PDA games that are available for a variety of platforms. There may be some logical advantage to some of the games, such as brain teasers or word games, but many are simple a means of passing time.
During business conventions people may find they have time on their hands when there are no emails to answer, no scheduled meetings and during travel while waiting in airports they lack something to do to help the time pass. With many wireless units, especially those equipped with Bluetooth technology and Windows Mobile operating systems they can also play PDA games against other users.
Some of the classic video games such as Frogger and Monopoly have been tuned to work with many Personal Data Assistants and users often save the PDA games on removable memory cards so as not to hog the space available on the internal memory chips. PDA games such as Tetris can help a person pass hours while sitting in an airport lobby or while on the runway waiting for takeoff.
Game Sharing Common Among PDA Users
As PDA games began to increase in number and popularity, many users would willingly share them with co-workers with a simple transfer of the program. Resultantly, many game makers and distributors built in safeguards to prevent the game from being played on a different unit from which it was originally registered. Some build in limitations on the number of times the PDA games can be played without using a registration key.
There are packages of PDA games available with several games on a single memory card in the specific language for a certain operating system, which prevents them from being played on a different type of unit. Additionally, having them on a memory card makes it more difficult to transfer from one unit to another. This technology helps protect the game maker’s profits from the sale of their product allowing only purchased distribution.
Sports games are also popular among many travelers and are the most often used for wireless play between different users. PDA games started during a meeting can be continued across the continent as long as the two players maintain their wireless connection and have the same gaming capability. Typically co-workers with the same company will use the same type of units for compatible communications, making game playing simple.
