Tip! Do your won research and make up your mind as to the PDA model you want to get. DO this research before you go shopping, so you’ll have a good background about which model you want, and what are the potential problems it has.

A prominent study suggests that Canadians between the ages of 12 and 24 account for 78 percent of illegal MP3 downloads.
As this only account for 21 percent of Canada’s population, it seems painfully obvious where the blame lies.

The study was conducted by the Canadian Recording Industry Association.

CRIA President Graham Henderson issued the same tired verbose rhetoric about file-swapping harming artists, referring to an “…erosion of respect for intellectual property.”

It seems as if that same erosion is occurring on the PDA game download level.

Pocket PC game warez is out in abundance, despite encryption algorithms coded from PDA owner names in an endeavour to pair the game with a specific device.

Being a Canadian (or more specifically, a Torontonian) doesn’t mean that I belong to the illegal download subset.

Tip! You need accessories. These are the basic, non essential goodies that are accompanying your PDA, like a nice leather case, a spare battery, a data/recharge cable, a recharge cradle and the like.

I would sketch a crude Venn Diagram, but that would be insulting to my readership.

Let’s just say that I have a bookshelf full of some top rated desktop PC games.

Not to mention that I’m a bit out of the reach of the 12 to 24 age group anyway, provided that someone doesn’t supply me with a DeLorean and some wide-eyed talk of heading back to the future.

Maybe a time-travelling Jaguar is a bit more contemporary.

What really irks me right now is Mike Lohsl, the self-touted Mobile Evangelist.

His barbed comment in a forum cited statistics from the survey and made a sarcastic reference to Michael Moore findings of low crime and murder rates in Canada.

Tip! Start with a research first. Always look for a few Internet forums about your PDA and ask around about the item you want to get.

Too bad Mr. Moore was referring to the absence violent crime, not pansy MP3 download transgressions.

So, Mr. Lohsl, I strongly suggest that you do your homework.

Let me get one thing straight– downloading PDA game warez is definitely considered theft of intellectual property. Software licenses are a bit more cut and dried than MP3s.

PDA gaming is so much more affordable than desktop PC gaming at the moment, I shudder to think of what PDA warez may have already done to the industry.

Tip! Your own PDA in now being repaired. This is obvious - your PDA is broken or malfunctions and it’s being repaired.

I’m just not ready to shell out $80.00CDN for a new Pocket PC adventure game release five years from now.

I’m not into public service announcements, but rather supporting the best of our Pocket PC game makers and keeping the more creative of them in business.

Myst Pocket PC edition, anyone?

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Damian Julien is a Pocket PC gaming authority and long time general gaming hobbyist and reviewer.

Tip! Full Internet and email capability. This is a standard feature among PDA’s today, but it’s worth mentioning.

He is an IT specialist by trade and has posted numerous articles on Pocket PC emulators, gaming and trends in the industry.

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Tip! You need accessories. These are the basic, non essential goodies that are accompanying your PDA, like a nice leather case, a spare battery, a data/recharge cable, a recharge cradle and the like.

PDA gaming can become inconvenient.

In an attempt to wean myself off of the Bejeweled 2 puzzle game on my iPAQ 4150, I decided to switch to Age of Empires, merely for research purposes, of course.

Insidiously, my proclivity towards Pocket PC game addiction reared its ugly head once again. It all began when I started playing Age of Empires during commercials while taking in Global News.

As it turns out, Bejeweled 2 had fewer negative repercussions on the domestic front as my wife Jessie has taken to dropping the occasional snide remark about my Pocket PC gaming.

Tip! Your own PDA in now being repaired. This is obvious - your PDA is broken or malfunctions and it’s being repaired.

This occurred most recently while conducting a Macedonian assault involving armoured elephants and long sword infantry.

I suspect that the novelty of pausing and rewinding live TV with our Rogers-supplied PVR has become annoyingly stale for her.

It’s considered somewhat sacrilegious when Dr. House has been paused midway through delivering a sarcastic quip to a terminally ill patient.

At work, I failed to notice that my desktop PC had frozen during compilation of a quarterly report until half an hour had elapsed, forcing me to produce some deft pretexts when my manager stopped by on a so-called spontaneous visit to my cubicle.

Tip! Start with a research first. Always look for a few Internet forums about your PDA and ask around about the item you want to get.

PDA puzzle games usually involve short, quick plays, making for an all-season type of Pocket PC game convenience.

Mounting a real-time Pocket PC strategic assault means having to pay a bit more attention to the big picture, lest you get cut down by an enemy AI civilization rampage on the hardest difficulty level.

My iPAQ has provided more than enough blissful distractions during daily commutes to earn my own, personal award for The Ultimate Gaming Platform that also reminds me of mundane errands, meetings and contact phone numbers.

Tip! Full Internet and email capability. This is a standard feature among PDA’s today, but it’s worth mentioning.

It’s too bad RTS Pocket PC gaming and work don’t mix well.

My diet will consist largely of Jawbreaker and Bejeweled staples for the time being. Away from work it’ll be a different story.

Well, back to preparing my final AoE assault.

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Damian Julien is a Pocket PC gaming authority and long time general gaming hobbyist and reviewer.

He is an IT specialist by trade and has posted numerous articles on Pocket PC emulators, gaming and trends in the industry.

http://www.pdagameguide.com/

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Tip! The battery the manufacturer gave you with the PDA is not satisfactory and you want another one. With today’s affordable PDA battery costs, it’s easy to acquire a new battery fast.

The next step in the Nintendo DS technological evolution will be handwriting recognition capability in games.

Nintendo Co. Ltd. has just inked a licensing agreement allowing it to harness this technology, previously most prevalent amonst the PDA and smartphone masses.

Full details in a Nintendo DS National Post article were announced today.

Seasoned gamers are well used to split decision thinking, and now mastering quick cursive script is yet another bid for even more speed.

Tip! Make sure what brand of PDA you want. If you already own a PDA - that is easy.

Ambiguous PDA shoppers may be lulled by the idea of Palm shorthand gaming on the Nintendo DS, thus hijacking a portion of the Palm and Pocket PC gaming market.

There’s a great deal of functional convergence taking place in today’s handheld technology wars.

My recent WiFi hotspots gaming article mentioned the recent McDonald’s and Nintendo joint agreement to provide some wireless gaming action to the former’s high-calorie consumers.

The entrance of the video iPod means yet another contender, hijacking a fraction of the undecided who would have probably picked up a Pocket PC for its MPEG-4 capabilites instead.

Emerging hardware acceleration capabilities for Pocket PCs allows such PDA owners to harness power previously restricted to the dedicated gaming Nintendo DS and Sony PSP handheld crowd.

It appears that handheld devices are becoming more uniform in development.

WiFi access, MPEG-4 playback, handwriting recognition … it may all sound a little too familiar. You can probably think of half a dozen devices performing similar functions.

My iPod upgrade trauma article speaks of the blistering technology evolution unfolding with this device.

With concurrent upgrades taking place amongst various platforms, only time will tell whether or not devices like Nintendo DS will be distinguishable from any other.

Tip! If you are surfing the web, there are types of viruses and Trojan horses who ‘know’ how to penetrate your PDA and do their worst. You therefore need proper protection from infected files, just like any PC user who surfs the web, downloads files, reads emails etc.

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Damian Julien is a Pocket PC gaming authority and long time general gaming hobbyist and reviewer.

He is an IT specialist by trade and has posted numerous articles on Pocket PC emulators, gaming and trends in the industry.

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