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Comics for your Cell Phone?

Full Tilt Features, a group of independent cartoonists, is distributing their comic strips and cartoon panels to cell phones around the world via their newly launched web site, www.fulltiltmobile.com.

Full Tilt`s President, Dawn Douglass, believes the potential for cartoonists to make "mobile money" is great, as demand for cell phone content is booming worldwide thanks to what are known as "smartphones" -- a combined cell phone, digital organizer and entertainment device which supports multiple forms of input.

Nokia, the global leader in mobile communications, has reported selling 6.7 million smartphones in the second quarter of this year, compared to 2.1 million units in the same period in 2004. Nokia has forecast that smartphone shipments worldwide will increase to 238 million units by 2008.