I don't know if I'm the typical gamer or not, but I'll post my views here for what it is worth.
I never want to play games on my phone. If I could create my perfect cell phone, it would be incredibly small, have a simple b/w LCD display, and be able to run on battery power for a really long time. Bluetooth might be interesting for internet access to my PDA, but I've lived without it this long and it would probably just hurt the battery and bloat the size...
Instead, I will play games on a device with a larger screen. A device designed with gaming controls. Until a few months ago I hadn't found such a device. I love the speed of my ASUS A620BT, and although it has some of the best gaming controls of any Pocket PC on the market, it still provides an awkward gaming experience.
I was astonished to find the Tapwave Zodiac was exactly what I was looking for. The shape is perfect. Landscape by default actually makes sense. It's thin, it's light, and it has an analog d-pad and lots of buttons in sensible locations. Heck, it even has side trigger buttons! And with all that it doesn't look like a cheap toy. It actually looks nice and could be mistaken for a regular, boring, PDA. (At least if you don't examine it closely!) I've learned to live with the icky Palm OS that is on the device, but I still don't like it. However, I'm willing to put up with the OS to have a REAL gaming PDA. You haven't played a Gameboy, Gameboy Color, NES, or SNES game on an emulator properly until you play it with real gaming controls and a nice resolution (320x480) display.
So now I have two PDAs, and depending on where I am going and what I plan to do, I bring one or both of them along. If someone (ASUS, HP, Toshiba, anyone?) made a Pocket PC device that was designed as well as the Zodiac is for gaming, then I would buy it in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, I doubt this will happen. So I guess I'll have to uncomfortably live in the Palm world when it comes to gaming...
