{"id":115,"date":"2008-02-24T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/24\/zeemote-the-2nd\/"},"modified":"2008-02-24T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T23:53:00","slug":"zeemote-the-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/zeemote-the-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeemote, the 2nd&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R8IHSYDzpEI\/AAAAAAAABjs\/aXuUdUr7vpg\/s1600-h\/Zeemote_logo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:pointer;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/R8IHSYDzpEI\/AAAAAAAABjs\/aXuUdUr7vpg\/s320\/Zeemote_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I blogged about the Zeemote joystick for mobile phones a while ago (see <a href=\"http:\/\/volkersthoughts.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/mobile-phone-joysticks-get-money-yes.html\">here<\/a>). Since then, it seems to have become all the hype: developers at GDC were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.co.uk\/r\/Mobile\/Zeemote+JS1\/feature.asp?c=5817\">apparently raving<\/a> about it (no wonder, as the geek factor is really high: just look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripten.com\/2008\/02\/19\/gdc-08-zeemote-party-was-ze-bomb-but-what-about-the-controller\/\">party photos<\/a>). I have also had the opportunity to get my hands onto one at MGF last month and saw it in action with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fishlabs.net\/\">Fishlabs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midlet-review.com\/index?content=news&amp;id=1648&amp;PHPSESSID=ea574515ca4\">Heli Strike<\/a> 3D helicopter game.<\/p>\n<p>Now: I had not, at the time, made any remarks on the technical ability of this device, and it does play well. BUT I still stand by my grave doubts as to its commercial viability, and I think there are two things one needs to distinguish here:<\/p>\n<p>1) Can it sell? This, I think, is a question of whether or not they manage to bundle it up with handsets. I cannot see this becoming a device capable of shifting serious units all on its on in the Carphone Warehouse or Radio Shack shelf right next to extra batteries, SD cards and headsets.<\/p>\n<p>2) Will it be used? Again, and in spite of its technical capabilities: I cannot see people taking yet another device with them. I said it before, and I say it here again: &#8220;Do I have everything I need? Wallet, keys, phone, errm, joystick?&#8221; That just doesn&#8217;t seem to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blogged about the Zeemote joystick for mobile phones a while ago (see here). Since then, it seems to have become all the hype: developers at GDC were apparently raving about it (no wonder, as the geek factor is really high: just look at the party photos). I have also had the opportunity to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[85,143,327,745,746],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bluetooth","tag-controller","tag-joystick","tag-zeemote","tag-zeetoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-1R","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}