Guitar Hero has turned millions of folks into rock stars with plastic guitars. But can they shred on a Nokia?

The reply is a resounding yes.

Cell phone carriers are rolling out a mobile version of Activision’s rock music game, and customers are subscribing at a pace that could invent it the most successful console-to-cell phone crossover game in history. As the cell phone rapidly emerges as the next computing platform, cell phone games would seem to be a natural

For consumers, the trend could eventually lead to big improvements in mobile gaming — a market that has drastically fallen short of market projections. But for now the Guitar Hero phenomenon is a lot like Jimi Hendrix, circa 1968: a great solo act, without backup.

Drag your finger down the list of the top-selling games for phones from the mobile industry statistics firm M:Metrics, for instance, and you’d pass by an […]

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