bbo on pda

[u98]

i wish to know if it is possible to play on bbo using a pda or a palm computer?

[inquiry]

It is not possible using the normal windows client. If your mobile device works with FLASH, I guess it might be possible using BBOFLASH (see topic), but I don't think the screen size will make it very enjoyable.

 

Best bet is if FLASH driver comes available for iphone or similiar device.

[barmar]

I don't suppose you've looked at the iPhone 2.0 SDK, have you?

[mrdct]

I acquired an iPhone 3G a few days ago. It's quite a cool unit, but does not support Flash. If you Google "iPhone flash" there are all sorts of rumours and opinions about a flash player being relesed for the iPhone in the near future, so hopefully that will be a reality soon

 

In the interim, I spent a few hours today watching the Spingold on my iPhone while I was out and about by using a free VNC app available through iTunes called "Mocha VNC" where I simply had BBO running on one of my computers at home, VNC'd to it and rotated the iPhone to get a landscape view.

 

I had the table and 3 or 4 lines of commentary visible, but the VNC controls obscured most of the commentary. On a normal PC I always use pictures of cards, but on the small screen a traditional hand diagram was much easier to read.

 

I think it would be pretty hard to actually play bridge as the level of precision required to select bids and cards wouldn't lend itself very well to the smaller screen and undos would likely be excessive; but for vugraph its fine.

 

I think one way or another BBO needs to have a version playable on small screens as this seem to be the way of the future.