@ CTIA: Mobile Bits: AOL Games; Vringo Calls Facebook; Verizon’s Five Phones; MySpace Mobile Alerts
— AOL (NYSE: TWX) Offers WAP Games: AOL plans to announce today that it is offering free WAP-based mobile games to wireless subscribers, so they don’t have to download anything to the phone. Such games as Call of the Pharaoh, Space Wars and Ice Fishing will be provided by Cellufun through AOL’s mobile portal at http://wap.aol.com/games. The free games will be subsidized by ads sold by AOL’s Third Screen Media.
— Ringing Up Facebook photos: Vringo said it will launch a new Facebook application today that lets users import their friend’s photos from Facebook to their phones and syncs them with the appropriate contact. When a Facebook friend calls, their photo will appear on their phone screen as part of caller ID. For now, the app will be free, and available to BlackBerrys Windows Mobile devices.
— Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) Launches Five New Phones: RIM
free WAP based games is a big step in the right direction but the ultimate goal must remain the freedom of cell connection. To be WAP free will take the space to a whole new level.