Campho - Pocket Bell

**Johnny Nighttrain** · 03 Sep 2003, 08:50 AM

From Video-Fenky:

Nintendo registered a design for a "wireless transmitter device for a portable game" with the Japanese government back on October 7, 2002. The design documents refer to the thing as a "pager", but as you can see in the pic below and the full gallery at GameOnline, the device is obviously a GBA cartridge. The front end juts out a little bit because there's apparently a connector stuck on for PDAs and other devices.

The first word of a Nintendo pager device came out last December, with the news that the company was designing some kind of transmitter thingie with Japanese wireless outfit Yozan. Back then, Yozan chairman Nao Takatori had this to say about the tie-up agreement: "While I can't go into details, we have received a development plan from Nintendo for a device related to pagers. It's not a pager, though, so much as it is a new kind of application of the technology."
We'll have to see whether this will be released as an actual product, and if so what kind of use it will have. It's easy to imagine Nintendo making an adaptor that would eliminate the need for cables when playing multiplayer games, but perhaps the company has more original ideas working behind this device. Turn your GBA into a PDA, perhaps?

guys should click the link to check out more pictures. anyways, who knows what it'll be used for, but im hoping that it's not used for wireless multiplayer. hopefully this expands the functionality of the GameBoy Advance and let it do all kinds of cool shit.

**epmode** · 03 Sep 2003, 10:40 AM

i don't know why they're describing it as a cartridge.. it's clearly an external periphial of some sort. you can tell by that plug thing that juts outward.

i'm not sure why you're against the idea of wireless multiplayer, lucas. the existing link cables are really awkward. if a reliable wireless solution (with a decent range,) is released, i'd buy it at launch.

**dog$** · 03 Sep 2003, 11:54 AM

So is this the super-secret Nintendo device that was alluded to a few weeks ago?

... if it is, I'm really at a loss as to just what this thing is supposed to actually do. I mean, as it stands, I really can't imagine this thing doing anything that it would make me want to purchase it.

**Johnny Nighttrain** · 03 Sep 2003, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by epmode

the existing link cables are really awkward.

what's so awkward about it? it's a link cable for crying out loud.

it's not that im against it, just hoping for something that has more potential then just wireless multiplayer.

Originally Posted by dog$

So is this the super-secret Nintendo device that was alluded to a few weeks ago?

far from it. they're not releasing info on that til spring of next year.