Greg has a great writeup on the shortcomings of mobile games on phones. The problem is more wide-spread (I think) even to phone web browsing and various platforms on PDAs (Java for example).
So many features in these little devices we all carry around, yet the capabilities of software to interface with the hardware and built in software are crippled.
It’s time we used secure, automated wireless functionality to its fullest. When my bluetooth PDA, cell phone, camera, mp3 player (or any combination of the above) get near my work or home PC (or they are wi-fi enabled and detect a net connection), why don’t they [over a secure protocol] access my server (home server, google, etc.) and:
*sync up e-mail/contacts
*upload pictures
*download newly purchased music
It’s really not that hard people. I want to start a line of products which fully expose the hardware and software APIs. the security should be built-in (upgradeable) and reasonably strong in order to interact with personal data, but otherwise give developers the ability to create smart software that utilizes all this technology we carry around!