Greetings,
I would like some responses from people who actually own the Voyager.
I saw someone playing a game on their iphone and wondered if the verizon games could be played on the voyagers touchscreen, or if you have to open it and play it on the inside screen with the keypad like on an EnV?
I can not get a straight answer from verizons cust. support.
I know that for the games to work on the touchscreen, they will have to have been programmed for that and I am not sure there has been enough time for that.
Lets say I wanted to play chess on my Voyager, do I have to open it up and play inside moving the pieces around with the keyboard? Or can I play on the outside touch screen, touch a piece, and then touch the place on the board where I want to put that piece? checkers? etc...
Is there a version of sudoku formatted for the voyager touch screen?
If I could play games on the touch screen, I would be happy with that and would not have to go out and get a nintendo DS. If I can't, well, I might just stick with my EnV then.
What say thee all?
Thanks
~E

If your concern is being able to play games on the touch screen. I'd stay with your 9900 then and buy a Nintendo.

Originally Posted by bossdragon

If your concern is being able to play games on the touch screen. I'd stay with your 9900 then and buy a Nintendo.

Well that does not really answer my question....
I did not ask for peoples opinions on Nintendo vs. voyager, I asked if you can play games on the touch screen.
I don't play a lot of games so I don't really want to buy and carry around a nintendo or psp if I can just play chess on my phone.
But I would prefer to play on the touch screen if that's possible but don't need to pay 200 more for a voyager if the game play is still the same and has to be on the keypad inside.
So do you know the answer to my question? or just offering friendly advice anyway?

I can't speak for all games.
I can tell you that Verizon Board Games and Tetris Mania will not work on the touch screen. In fact, if you are playing one of these games on the internal screen and you close the phone, it shuts down the game. You can resume where you left off in the board games. I haven't tried it with Tetris.

From the best I can tell, any flash game which only requires the mouse and left button can be played on the touch screen.

I bought mahjong from verizon (get it now->games) and it will not play on the external screen (it tells me to open the phone to play it) I was kind of mad about that because touchcreen or mouse is the only way to go playing that game...

'lights out' is a good touch screen game. if you can find it...

here is an index I found but no lights out:

Index of /games/flash media .swf games


Also...no sound will play on the flash games..but somebody might figure out why and post it someday...

I'm not claiming to be an expert on this issue, but how will the Voyager be able to play flash games when it is incompatible with flash players?
I have been searching high and low for touchscreen games on the web and have thus far come up empty.
After researching on other forums for the Voyager concerning touchscreen games, the consensus seems to be the answer "NO". At least for now until a wiz figures out a way and share it with the Voyager community or VZW releases an updated version allowing us a little more freedom (imagine that)!
Just my 1.5 cents.

Originally Posted by Mr Voyager

I'm not claiming to be an expert on this issue, but how will the Voyager be able to play flash games when it is incompatible with flash players?
I have been searching high and low for touchscreen games on the web and have thus far come up empty.
After researching on other forums for the Voyager concerning touchscreen games, the consensus seems to be the answer "NO". At least for now until a wiz figures out a way and share it with the Voyager community or VZW releases an updated version allowing us a little more freedom (imagine that)!
Just my 1.5 cents.

If you would have looked up about 10 posts before this one, you would have seen the sticky I posted in this Forum about the flash game hack...you will see that the phone is indeed flash capable.

There are many flash games currently working on this phone for both the inside and outside touch screen.

Here are two games that are sized relatively well to work on the touch screen. Note though that the sound does not work.

http://myfilestash.com/userfiles/klptampa/daredozen.swf


http://myfilestash.com/userfiles/klptampa/lightsout.swf

This is what I am referring to. I would like to see the availability of games without the need for altering programs to get them to play, and sound would be nice.
In my post earlier, I just meant that it would be nice if VZW or some other website would offer games for the Voyager that will be immediately compatible with the phone.

Originally Posted by bossdragon

If your concern is being able to play games on the touch screen. I'd stay with your 9900 then and buy a Nintendo.

OK BOSS DRAGON. What is a sticky? I did not see anything in your post