I was excited to see EA officially announcing a huge swath of games today.  EA, despite all their troubles, has an excellent sense of production quality and brand building that always makes their games competitive.  However, once I got to the list I was disappointed to see that a large chunk of them were for mobile phones only. 

I'm cool with good games for portable gaming devices, like the DS or PSP.  Heck, I was just playing Final Fantasy IV this evening, and spent a fair amount of time providing design feedback for the Age of Empires  game on the DS.  But mobile phone games, on the other hand, are quite frustrating to me.  The devices just aren't suited for them.  More importantly, I just find the cases where I have my phone but not my DS, and want to play anything more sophisticated than Minesweeper, are basically nonexistant.

Clearly there is an audience out there, presumably a lot of people who have phones as part of their normal lives and don't have a handheld gaming system.  But it's a segment that just doesn't reach me at all.  There's an Age of Empires game for mobile phones too... but I've never had the opportunity to check it out.