3G Coming To Nintendo 3DS
3G connectivity is becoming ubiquitous in our gadgets. Most notebooks and netbooks now come at least with the option to slide in a SIM card and get online while mobile. E-readers like Amazon’s Kindle comes with 3G WhisperNet built into the price of the device; the iPad will accept a 3G microSIM in case you agree to pay a little a lot more. No point in even mentioning smartphones: they are all packed for the gills with 3G these days.
Actually, it is tough to name a portable gadget that does not come at the very least in some 3G flavor. Anomalous, though, are handheld gaming consoles, which — using the exception of Apple’s own iPhone (in case you care to think of it as a gaming console) — are strictly WiFi-only affairs.
It’s a bizarre lapse on the part of console makers like Nintendo, but according for the Wall Street Journal, Japanese mobile broadband provider NTT DoCoMo is challenging at work trying to bring 3G connectivity to your favorite handheld gaming consoles.
Since, genuinely, the handheld gaming console world only encompasses Nintendo, Sony and (maybe) Apple, it does not take a big leap of logic to guess that NTT DoCoMo is specifically in talks with Nintendo to supply 3G for the forthcoming 3DS. If that’s true, a Nintendo partnership with a telecom stateside makes a excellent deal of sense. Let’s just pray it is not AT&T.
