One of the more eyecatching mobile applications on show at Nokia World today is called Mobile Secretary, from Chinese firm InterGrafx. It's basically a 3D avatar that acts as your virtual secretary, residing on your phone.

"It's very fun," says InterGrafx's Charles Chiang. "Your secretary handles things like SMS and incoming calls. You can choose different types of secretary from our server side, you can fire them and download a new one, or train them to be smarter. And you can even take a photo of someone, and put their picture on the avatar."

Despite glorious predictions, the Mobile Games market is clearly still failing to compete with the success of the console and PC games industry. In fact, many people are concerned that the Mobile Games market is close to saturation point.

For these reasons, the industry is once again meeting at The Mobile Games Forum 2008 on 23^rd and 24^th January at Sofitel St James, London to assess the current state of the market and its stability for the future. Now in its 5th year, The Mobile Games Forum is the industry’s most established and respected event.

Electronic Arts' mobile games will soon offer a 3D performance equivalent to traditional portable gaming consoles.

Broadcom and Electronic Arts recently signed an agreement to enable popular EA Mobile game titles on mobile phones powered by Broadcom solutions. The game titles will be optimized for the latest generation VideoCore III mobile multimedia processor from Broadcom, which supports HD content and graphics performance equivalent to today's dedicated handheld game consoles.

"Low power 3D hardware graphics acceleration will allow developers to create games for convergent mobile devices that can compete with or surpass games for dedicated handheld gaming devices. True high-resolution 3D graphics will entice consumers to download and play more mobile games," says gaming analyst Billy Pidgeon at IDC.

LEIPZIG— August 22^{nd, 2007—Adobe, NOKIA and MOVIDA have joined forces to support the fourth annual International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) as the main sponsors. In addition, the IMGA has announced sponsorship from QUALCOMM, NVIDIA, AMD and Belle de Mai Media Park, Marseille. The unique and exceptionally broad international support received for these awards reflects the growing importance of mobile gaming for the graphics industry worldwide and confirms IMGA’s leadership in the field of mobile games awards.}

Tokyo - Japanese cellphones already let users shoot films and share them with friends. It may not be long before the images go another step - becoming completely three-dimensional.

Japan's Hitachi, Ltd has developed a lightweight 3D display that can potentially be adapted for mobile devices such as telephones.

The gadget, using what is known as stereoscopic vision display, weighs only one kilogram and resembles an upside-down, multiangular pyramid full of mirrors on top of a liquid crystal display.

The International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA), which is currently in its fourth year, is inviting mobile game developers to participate and compete in an international arena with top studios as well as individual developers from all over the world.

It is interesting to know that the first mobile games were launched ten years ago in 1997. And, now, ten years later, a large variety of mobile games ranging from casual games, to high-end 3D games, multiplayer and even social networking games are available in the market today.

Thus, the International Mobile Gaming Awards has a mission- to reward and recognize the best innovators and the most creative mobile game from all over the world.