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Now memory cards come with free mobile games

PNY giving away EA Mobile titles

Now memory cards come with free mobile games
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Need a microSD memory card for your phone? You can now bag a free mobile game at the same time.

That's the offer from PNY, anyway,which has just started selling 2GB microSD cards here in the UK with an offer to download a free mobile game from EA Mobile.

It shouldn't come as a surprise, mind. We first wrote about PNY in February this year, when the company was showing off the idea at the Mobile World Congress trade show.

But the cards have now gone on sale in the UK with the EA Mobile offer. For example, Dixons' website is selling them for £14.98.

The games aren't preloaded on the memory card itself. Instead, you get an access code which you enter into a WAP site to download your chosen game.

That sounds a bit crazy, but it's actually the only sensible way to do it – otherwise PNY would have to preload, say, every single handset version of FIFA 08 onto the card to ensure you'd get one that worked with your phone.

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.)