There is definitely a market for this kind of thing out there. Obviously, it wouldn't be too deep in terms of the content it provides (what guild would be okay with members raiding via a cell phone?), but there is enough of what you could theoretically do in order to make a minimalist program feasible.

For example, providing a mobile AH program that lets you organize, buy, and sell items via the Auction House.

Tied into this would be the WoW mailing system, allowing players to send and receive messages and items while mobile.

Taking that a step further, how great would it be to be able to craft items and prep for raiding right from your mobile phone? That would tie the AH and Mailbox scenarios together and actually provide a very useful service I could definitely see people using.

And of course, there would be the always-necessary chat options to go with them. =)

There is definitely some potential here, so hopefully we see the suits at Blizzard taking this road in the short future.

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I would not want to "play" on my iPhone, but a chat program would be nice to talk to the guildies. Checking AH/mail would be kinda neat as well.

I don't see creating a chat program being very hard (basically creating a front end that connects to the servers), but more so if Blizzard would want it made.

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I can see the BGs getting filled with honor farming phone players who tap a button on their phone every now and then to not get marked afk.

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Blizzard has had job postings up for a while that relate to this. It's got its own category at http://www.blizzard.com/us/jobopp/ . However, they have yet to fill the position "Lead Mobile Developer", so I'm skeptical that they're getting all that far.

This might turn out to be something that, like eSports, is a lot easier to do if you plan for it from the beginning. Final Fantasy, for example, could have a card minigame be playable through a phone. WoW has gchat and AH. /yawn. Yeah, it'd be nice to see, but it'd be more fun to actually DO something useful in the game.

I'd rather wait and see something good with their next-gen MMO or, possibly, the expansion after Wrath.

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Fishing. A fishing minigame. That would just rock.

The problem is that the ability to do things like mail, craft, and use the AH assume proximity to an object, I wouldn't be surprised if it either required a character slot or a character that was in a major capital that had all of the required amenities.

I'm already planning on acquiring a 3g iphone, this would just further cement that purchase decision.

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I think that it should be a chat and crafting application, not just for iPhones, but all phones. And, if you're in a city, you should be able to mail/AH stuff.

I'd buy it.

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I can definitely see this happening especially with devices like the n-gage getting popular games like The Force Unleashed developed for them. There are lots of possibilities.

Jeff
http://www.wowdungeon.com

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i want to play 8-bit Molten Core on my phone. agro all bears in 40 yards when you skin a bear.

seriously, if bliz release that, just about every WoW head would pay 6 dollars to download it...

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I wonder how the mail/AH thing would work. Would you magically appear at the AH upon logging in on the mobile device? If so, would it leave you there so that when you log in on your computer you're at the AH? If not, then it would be a great tool to not have to waste your hearthstone to check AH or mail. Just sign off, sign on with mobile, do stuff, sign off, sign on with computer again. That would be nice. =D

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Steam Tonk Mobile Battle--FTW!

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i don't see this being that far off, since someonehas already made iArmory which you can check out here http://ooc.array0.com/iarmory-v05a-released.html , but use at your own risk since it's still in very early stages at the moment.

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http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/07/09/wow-on-the-iphone-just-barely/

Not new. Both are just streaming video onto the iPhone, both can control actions. Yes, the old WoW on iphone video is slow, but that's because they used VNC to stream it. Point is, this doesn't bring anything new to the table that wasn't already there.

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Regardless of what one thinks of Apple, their product being the pits, or the most full of awesomeness ever invented, I think most would agree the iPhone is the only mobile phone that could reasonably run any form of WoW client.

Not only because it's got a quite large and high-res screen for a device of this kind, but also because of the touch input capability, making it at least somewhat feasible to control the character and use skills etc. And also because it has a relatively powerful 3D GPU built into it as standard.

This doesn't mean it'll ever happen of course. Frankly I'd be surprised if it did. But if a mobile client ever does appear, I'd be surprised if it was tailored to something other than the iPhone. :P

...And no, I don't have any intentions of buying one. It's too large for my taste for starters, and too expensive.

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Sad thing is, even if you level everything down to 8-bit color and 2D planes, the players/game network traffic alone would make make your pretty phone explode.

I think the best they can do right now is prolly a fake client for the Armory, fake as in it's just a disguised web browser.

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I would like to have gchat on the mobile phone.

Maybe check AH or mail. Often in the mornings I just check my mail and repost anything on AH then log off and go to work.

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