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  |   truck Electronics video On Cell Phone Make way for TV, games, and other video entertainment on the tiny screen of your cell phone. At least, that's the promise of today's brave new world of cell phone video. Recent technologies like Qualcomm's BREW (binary runtime environment for wireless) are enabling the delivery of previously unavailable content to the tiny screen, which will soon include scaled-down versions of Electronic Arts games like Madden NFL, The Sims, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour. But if gaming isn't a priority, cellular subscribers will be able to use their phones to track everything from their favorite NASCAR drivers during a race to closed-circuit security cameras in their homes or business or to access e-mails from almost any service remotely. There's even an application called Song Identify from a company called Rocket Mobile that enables cell phone users to get the name of a song and the artist simply by hold a phone up to a radio for 10 seconds. But there's more. Sirius Satellite Radio will provide music programming for Sprint's PCS Vision Plan. "Some of the music channels being evaluated by Sprint and Sirius for the new service include new hits, classic rock, hip-hop, country, blues and soul, jazz, and Broadway's best music," according to company documents detailing the service. It's not just about video on cell phones or even all about cellular. Broadly speaking, it's really about digital content provided on demand to portable devices-and not all of it is rated G, either. Playboy reportedly offers adult content called iBod, a collection of photos that can be downloaded to an Apple iPod or Sony PSP. What's the catch? Money. That's what. All of these applets or services cost money, most of them between $1 and $10 a month. As Senator Everett Dirksen once said: "A billion here, a billion there-pretty soon it adds up to real money!" That giant sucking sound you hear isn't NAFTA, it's a vacuum cleaner siphoning all that aptly-named disposable income right out of your pocket and into the bank accounts of Verizon and other cellular providers. According to JupiterResearch, 44 percent of consumers surveyed want access to video on their cell phones, but only 19 percent said they would be willing to pay for it. Nor do they consider it any kind of priority to have it. But of course, nobody really needed a camera on their cell phone, either, but that didn't stop the whole fad from taking off like a rocket. And when the Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes wedding is available exclusively on cell phone pay-per-view, then we'll know that tiny screen video has truly arrived. (Of course, if Tom and Katie have broken up by the time you read this, then it's back to the drawing board!)