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Is Game King a phone or a Game Boy Advance?

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Is Game King a phone or a Game Boy Advance?
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We've not encountered Spice before, but the Indian handset manufacturer is making something of a splash at Mobile World Congress this year.

While nosing round its stand, we found the handset above, which appears to be called GAME KING. It's like a Game Boy Advance stuck to a phone, with a D-pad and four buttons, plus Start and Select.

The phone goes on sale next month in India, and will be a mid-priced handset retailing around the $200 mark (we're not sure how heavily operators subsidise phones in India – that could mean it's free with a contract).

Anyway, 50 games will come preloaded on the device. They didn't look super-impressive, but for gamers looking for something beyond the mobile keypad, it could be appealing. Don't hold your breath for a UK release, mind as Spice focuses on India and south east Asian countries mainly.

And if that wasn't enough, the company is also unveiling a Movie Phone with its own UMD-style optical disc drive in the back.

Stuart Dredge
Stuart Dredge
Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)