Going beyond Tetris

Classic puzzler Tetris is the world's most successful mobile phone game. It is the number one played, bought and downloaded game in every country in the world that offers games on your phone.

But if you thought mobile phones were only able to play Tetris, or games like Snake, think again.

The current generation of handsets - from the Nokia N95 to the NTTDocomo 905 series - have enough power to offer gaming experiences not unlike late PlayStation One, early PlayStation 2 games.

I've just been chatting to a British firm, Imagination Technologies, which develops dedicated graphics accelerators for mobile phones. It produces a bit of silicon that is incorporated into chips made by firms like Texas Instruments and Intel.

And the results are impressive. I'm writing a longer feature for the BBC News website which looks at the development of mobile phone games and some of the issues around why the industry has yet to really take off.

But take a look at the video above - shot on a Nokia N95, as is all my stuff this week.

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