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As far as flops go, Nokia's original N-Gage was fairly spectacular, a Heaven's Gate of the electronics world if there ever was one.
That's a high capacity battery and the N-Gage has excellent battery life.
N-gage is unlikely to solve Nokia's problems. - Oct. 6, 2003
After a couple of weeks on store shelves, the N-Gage seems to be having more success as the butt of jokes than as the must-have geek gadget it was supposed to be.
On the other hand, the Bluetooth multiplayer feature is deeply cool.
People here say the N-Gage is a success.
Actually, the N-Gage is a brilliant device.
If the N-Gage is such a success" outside" the US then why is the Nokia both entirely empty at E3?
In my opinion n-gage is one of the best gaming consoles i have ever held in my hands.
The first N-Gage was a dedicated gaming phone that was launched in 2003.
With game and device prices comparable to Nintendo's GameBoy Advance SP, the N-Gage seems to have at least a passable chance for success.
The contest judges, including both technical experts and business development professionals from Nokia, selected applications that showed the best combination of quality and usability.
I could play almost any Nintendo game I wanted to, and the design of the device was perfect for it.
Wow, I remember when the N-Gage was cool!
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The mp3-player and the bundled ear-piece give excellent sound quality.
Up to 30 fps video (15 is perfectly adequate), improved resolution (holding the N-Gage sideways for full-aspect ratio) and sound-quality.
Besides its impressive gaming capabilities, perhaps the most attractive thing about the N-Gage QD is its price.
Given the display size and rendering abilities of mobile phones, class 6 is more than adequate for browsing the web, though a faster data connection would improve the multi-player gaming experience.
Aside from the usual mobile gaming titles such as Snakes and Bomberman, you'll find very attractive ports and original games that can't be found on other handheld gaming devices.
Sound through the speaker is of good quality and can get plenty loud-- certainly great for gaming.
The QD worked well with all the headsets we tested, offering easy pairing, reliable connections, good audio quality, volume and range.
Pictures were good the video were good but only 15 seconds long.
The N-Gage is alive and well and living in Manhattan.
Also, given the N-Gage's ability to play MP3s stored on a MultiMedia card, users may want a storage card inserted while not playing games.
The games themselves have received an overall good reception all over the Internet ever since the First Access beta, with Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep standing out as the most successive title.
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A $100 price drop and confirmed hacking of the copy protection for N-gage games within six weeks didn't help matters.
Good sound quality and RF performance
Without a doubt, the Nokia N-Gage QD is the best cell phone I've owned.
Have you ever tried to have a serious gaming session on a" regular" cell phone?
Now i think it's the best cell phone ever even though it doesn't have a camera and radio. but heck never like those thing in the hand phones anyway.
N-Gage brings you exceptional, made-for-mobile gaming, now on a range of powerful Nokia devices.
Inside, the N-Gage boasts a Symbian operating system with support for Java 2 Micro Edition and a 104-MHz ARM925 processor.
Game On As for the software, Nokia insists it will have enough games to make the N-Gage a good purchase.
By Jon Gales -- Back when the original N-Gage debuted, making fun of it was almost a sport.
Battery life was pretty decent.
The included XHTML browser worked fine, but it isn't as polished as Opera (does not come with phone, it costs extra).
And since it only costs $200 without a contract it's a perfect second phone for people who just want to be able to see what all the smartphone fuss is about.
Fast forward a few months and now Nokia released an updated N-Gage which addresses the side talking, memory card and network support issues.
As a digital music player and recorder, the N-Gage lacks many essential features.
Not only was the volume insufficient to be heard over background noise on a New York City subway, but the unit also lacks many essential features such as fast forward/rewind, replay, playlists, and a graphic equalizer.
The internet browser is excetionally good and clear to see on the ngage's screen.
Technology such as large, crisp displays, graphics, and miniaturization have improved dramatically since 2003-2004, making today’s cell phones much more capable for gaming.
Is the Nokia N-Gage really your best phone?
Nokia is looking to change all of that now, as the N-Gage morphs from hilarious taco phone into a dedicated mobile platform based on the concept of community and connectivity.
Latest by Joonas : Easy indie development sounds like a good idea.
The phone boasts a Web browser and e-mail and can be upgraded with Series 60 applications.
Its a great affordable phone with user friendly menus and fast text input. features are quality and advanced"
Whether Nokia chooses to brand the phone as an 'N-Gage phone' is irrelevant to the phone's game-playing abilities: the N-Gage hardware will still be in there, it just depends whether Nokia wants to shout about it or not!
Sleek design and excellent build quality.
Sure, it's not the best gaming device out there or the best phone for that matter, but it's a damn good deal.
2 million sold isn't a lot in games console terms, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the most popular smartphone ever.
For $100 you get a colour screen, Bluetooth, hot-swappable and cheap expandable memory, decent sound, a full HTML web-browser, the ability to sync with Outlook or Notes and as much homebrew gaming as you like.
The N-Gage is only competent as a phone, so you might as well buy a GBA SP and a Nokia phone.
If you want to play a game you need to click the menu screen, which takes you from the multi-colored-on-black background to the regular S60 menu which are the boring icons on white.
But seeing how the original N-Gage had decent games, it still flopped.
Besides, jago, you may not like it, but it does not exhume the fact that the N-Gage is a very good device, both as a phone and as a gaming device.
It's actually a decent phone.
They got the best smartphone anywhere.
The problem with the N-Gage is that it was primarily a phone, with the ability to play games.
It also looks to have a smaller form factor that makes it more portable, and it looks like a nice design.
Good luck Nokia (5:13pm EST Wed Apr 14 2004) The second one sounds like an almost half decent mobile gamer.
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I think it is better to have a great handheld console with a cellular than having a N-gage, but I understand that some people love it.
But even with many defects fixed, the QD is neither a good phone nor a good gaming machine, suggesting that the concept itself is flawed.
They gave excellent sound but they're only practical for home use, when you're not regularly taking the QD out of a pocket or purse.
While the original N-Gage listed for $299, the QD lists for $199, a price that includes Tony Hawk's Pro Skater from most retailers.
The speed of the graphics for the 3D sections of the game is quite good.
I must say that aside from the appeal of having endless hours of gaming fun, this phone has some good abilities such as being compliant with the major email protocols and also being able to surf the Internet via GPRS.
But, it's a good phone, good mp3 player, good radio, wap&www and even an irc platform.
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The most popular and maligned feature on the N-Gage is the side-talking function.
The radio sound quality is very good.
The best gaming feature on the N-Gage is wirelessly multiplayer gaming via Bluetooth.
Tested on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater the feature works without a hitch and provides an easy way for players to hook up, compete, and brag.
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Games-wise, the N-Gage is looking a lot healthier than last year.
To clinch the deal, battery life is good, it's got Bluetooth and there's a wealth of PDA-type features.
Anyhow, El Taco does get rather strong reception, and I had no problem calling from anywhere in my house, whereas my actual cell phone service varies from totally clear to not available depending on where in my kitchen you stand, let alone the rest of the house.
Quality is good, but the video makes it look bad.
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Nokia argues the device not only has phone and PDA capabilities, but also has multimedia paging, FM-quality stereo radio and a MP3 player, and is a reasonable price tag.
Recent reports have speculated that Nokia plans to integrate N-Gage technology into a series of phones, rather than releasing another dedicated handset.
If the psp phone winds up unbelievably good because sony does some new innovative thing. . . then i'll get one. until then, i think i will sit back, watch the early adaptors pick one up, and see how things work out for them.
If this is the future, send me back to the past, because the N-Gage is an overpriced cellular phone that has several incredible features and does none of them well at all.
Despite these design flaws, the N-Gage represents progress in the ongoing effort to build hybrid devices and provide another compelling use for wireless technology besides communication.
This phone is as tough as old boots and has a good reception.
Analysts say the new N-Gage's success is not an important financial issue for Nokia but a question of credibility for the Finland-based company - an opportunity to show off its technical and marketing competence.
The phone’s speaker is also in a better position than on the original N-Gage, and this modification makes it more convenient to hold the handset when using it to make normal voice phone calls.
Another useful feature is the phone’s integrated video player, which enables you to play video clips stored in the phone’s memory or from a memory card.
The phone has a good internal memory capacity of 3. 4 MB , although this would not be adequate to store many games, which means it is an essential feature that the available memory can be easily expanded by using MultiMediaCard™ memory cards, and MMC cards of up to 256 MB capacity are supported.
The reflective screen is very good, but too small (much smaller than GB) for gaming or Internet.
For best reception, use headset" and don't be so rude saying"
Works globally: 110-240VAC, compact size makes it ideal for travelers.
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With a 104 MHz ARM processor, a backlit 176x208 pixel 4096 color display, and a tri-band GSM phone that will work on the 900, 1800 and 1900 networks, the N-Gage is a powerful little device.
Nokia N-Gage is alive and kicking 18/05/2005
Excellent sound quality, playlist, equalizer.
This is really a very good phone and in a low price you get everything except a camera.
I was looking for a phone with good audio quality to play music and liked this one.
N gage QD has good audio quality, the. . .
Ive had the phone for over a year, and by far it is the best phone ive had. . .
Its really nice phone.
The N-Gage QD is a compact device with a hot-swappable multimedia (MMC) slot for instant gaming, longer battery life, improved gaming controls, brighter screen, powerful smartphone features and the new N-Gage Arena launcher application.
This is the best phone that I have ever used, because of it's wealth of features.
They just have to get a cool design and we're set.
Well the audio does sound good, but. . .
With It's incredible 4096-colour screen it is as visually powerful as the PSOne.
Instead of a dedicated games phone like the original N-Gage and N-Gage QD, it's now a platform running on various Nokia Nseries handsets, offering advanced 3D games.
Yankee Group senior analyst Mike Goodman told TechNewsWorld that despite technological advances, the speed of information sharing on the Internet makes absolute copy protection impossible.
In this case, the N-Gage has sacrificed some of its comfort as a mobile phone so as to provide the user with a reasonable grip for gaming.
That strategy would open up N-Gage?s premium gaming experience to the more casual gamer unwilling to purchase a dedicated gaming handset.
JABRA is the ultimate Bluetooth wireless hands-free solution that connects your mobile phone to your headset via Bluetooth radio technology instead of a wire. works up to 30 feet away from your cell phone.
The phone best known for"
If they're specifically designed for phones rather than as knock-offs of console games then N-Gage has an excellent chance of making mobile gaming a lot more relevant. "
I agree, developing for symbian is fun.
Mobile phone technology has improved to the point where your humble handset has become a viable gaming platform.
Enhance your device with one of the most powerful features you can imagine: an Answering Machine based on your own Smartphone.
The N-Gage QD is a high-quality, interactive mobile gaming device with excellent communication features.
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What they told us was this: The N-Gage received some of the highest consumer satisfaction ratings we have seen with Nokia devices.
The Nokia N-Gage has a couple of advantages over the Tapwave Zodiac.
It's not especially stylish looking, which may upset fashionistas, and if you're trying to impress your mates it doesn't really have the novelty factor of a videophone, but nonetheless there's some very useful functionality here.
The gaming phone is not expected to make a meaningful contribution to Nokia's top line soon, but observers are eyeing the effort to see if the company still has its strong design and marketing muscle.
I have never had such a fancy phone. please help me!
Well, it's a good phone, but technology has moved on a little since last year.
On the minus side, the battery life is really only good enough for leisure use so you'll never justify it to your boss.
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Still, if you're looking for an entertaining cell phone, the N-Gage could be an easy choice.
The Zodiac is better in every way than my current PDA, and the N-Gage is certainly more fun than my plain-Jane cell phone, even if it's frustrating to use in some ways.
This is at odds with most design philosophies of a good compact phone.
Ngage had decent Java all the way back then!
I could use IRC (client or Java), BT, chat, MS document editor/viewer, a nice, stable browser that was perfect for the screen size, along with almost any other app that is available for PC.
For some odd reason, I cannot get my bloody phone to acknowledge by burning Wi-Fi adapter's existence yet, but I've been playing losing to 14 year olds on AT&T's ghetto-fabulous Edge network without any lag.
Go from ugly phones to ugly girls and phones to a nice phone.
It comes with the attractive and useful feature of Symbian OS v6. 1.
The Nokia N-Gage is an innovative mobile game deck device that creates an entirely new market for time, place and context sensitive game genres.
The N-Gage Innovation run shoe is a high performance, lightweight, breathable running shoe that. . .
The RYKÄ N-Gage Trainer is very light weight for a trainer shoe giving you increased comfort.
The backlit display has decent graphics, but it? s a bit small (less than two inches square, and unlike most game displays, vertical in nature), and colors are difficult to differentiate.
The N-Gage QD game deck is a pocketable device with a hot-swappable multimedia (MMC) slot for instant gaming, longer battery life, improved gaming controls, brighter screen, powerful smartphone features and the new N-Gage Arena launcher application.
They should have marketed it as a reliable sturdy phone, that just happens to play nes/snes/genesis/gbc roms very well with the right software.
However, if you want a phone that's also good at playing games, you can't beat it.
Other than its large size, it had quite a nice feature set for its low price.
The first thing to notice is that the N-Gage QD has a smoother, less radical design than the original N-Gage - although it's still a highly unusual handset.
In addition, there's still no digital camera which would be a useful enhancement to this kind of" fun" handset.
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Nokia has given the N-Gage QD game deck a hot-swappable multimedia (MMC) slot, longer battery life, improved gaming controls, a brighter screen, powerful smart-phone features and the new N-Gage Arena launcher application.
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Another clumsy feature was the speaker and microphone being located on the side edge of the phone.
Some felt this to be a negative feature, feeling that 'unconventional' does not necessarily mean improvement.
From a cell phone standpoint, the N-Gage also faced problems.
The N-gage also suffered from a software bug problem known as the White Screen of Death , a memory management issue that rendered the phone inoperational if the main memory was used beyond a certain capacity.
Another N-Gage owner wrote with notes on Games, 1GB MMC card compatibility and notes that some added software can cause file transfer problems:
This phone is ridiculously expensive. . for the same $500 you can get more than just a mobile phone.
Although the N-Gage was facing the wrong direction and he started to dial on his own face, he did manage to locate his ear (a vital skill when talking on the N-Gage).
It's only 2 flaws are a soft ear piece and awkward design.
At a glance the N-Gage may seem rather expensive compared with a Nintendo Gameboy or a mobile phone which has been subsidized.
However, the N-Gage has drawn criticism from those who have had a chance to test it, especially for what appear to be some fairly significant design flaws.
Alas, this is the N-Gage's weakest feature as a gaming device, a weakness that it shares with many other phone handsets that promise multiplayer gaming.
I've format my n-gage but the 'app closed main' error still come. but I think this problem didn't give any effect to my phone. so I just ignore it since my friend also faced with this problem.
Another big problem for North Americans was that the N-Gage lacked GSM 850 network support.
Game publishers may help compensate for Nokia's poor hardware design by releasing some must-have titles.
The speaker and microphone were located on the side of the N-Gage, which led to “sidetalking” and was an awkward and unpleasant experience.
The first N-Gage handset received an onslaught of criticism.
Mobile gaming is huge and makes a lot of money, though the N-Gage was a failure, because it failed as a phone, and wasn't a great game player.
It's just a shame that the screen is relatively poor and the wrong way around.
Except for the size (when compared to my current Sanyo phone), I like the N-Gage and feature wise, it's really not a bad phone.
Hey, at least it has flight mode and MP3 support (that I missed the first time around), but I'm a phone geek and all I keep doing is shaking my head at how shoddily slapped together this thing is.
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uh huh (8:08am EST Thu Apr 15 2004) If you like crappy 2D platform games with terrible screens (I mean really shockingly terrible screens! ) GBA is great, but the bright screen quality, sound, 3D graphics, plus cool phone and network subsidy of N-Gage is a better than viable alternative.
Nokia N-gage delayed for a third time (27 December 2007)
Nokia N-Gage delayed again (21 December 2007)
You really gave up a PSP to keep a mediocre cell phone with mediocre games?
Agreed, the N-Gage's days are numbered, but anyone claiming the N-Gage is a bad system simply does not know anything about it or has judged it after only a handful of short gaming sessions.
I admire Nokia for taking the risk, but the N-Gage is a total flop.
The N-gage is an unmitigated flop. but the fact that ppl are defending the N-gage may also be a slight positive. maybe these ppl just have sympathy for Nokia and don't like to see it being absolultely plummeled in the opionion posts. b/c most of the criticism in these post are brutal.
Improving the game deck In what is widely viewed as a repair job on the first N-Gage, the QD has made substantial improvements to a ridiculous phone that was derisively referred to as ?Elephant Ears? because of the way it had to be held up to the ear.
I still don't see how it can possibly work as a phone, and it still has the same lame vertical screen that's so problematic for gaming.
Gone is the old N-Gage's awkward game-changing, replaced by a protected live-swap bay on the underside of the unit.
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Volume adjusting in game titles must be done within the options menu in each game ? a clumsy feature.
The landscape design is awkward to use as a phone.
First of all, the N-Gage is a standard Series60 phone, exept for a few small differences, as f. eks. stereo sound(enabling Stereo MP3's/ogg's), FM-radio(which no other series60 phone has) and lack of camera(which all other series60 phones has).
The horrible thing about this is that now (when the N-Gage fails) Nokia has a reason for it's failure.
The screen's brighter than before, but it's still the weakest part of the N-Gage - we frequently found ourselves squinting at games, although it's fi ne for phone use.
That would make for one heck of a bulky phone.
Unlike Nokia's original N-Gage handset which was released in 2003 and failed to take hold with gamers or mobile phone users, the new N-Gage is instead a gaming service that will work across Nokia's entire current range of handsets.
Unfortunately, the Nokia N-Gage lacks the modern ability of t9 intelligent text messaging.
Apart from poor reception, such an strong interference between your hand and RF raises a far more serious concern: your right hand may get cancer if you play/use this console too much.
Be prepared to stay in touch when your original battery loses its charge.
" It's a great form factor for playing games, but it's a terrible phone. "
This ngage QD is a good as well as a bad phone.
Now if you’ve heard a lot of reviews saying the Ngage is a bad phone, with lots of known issues, IT ISNT!
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Not another cell phone with piss poor design, mind you, but an actual gaming platform that allows gaming on all N-Gage enabled phones.
Stung by criticism of the original N-Gage cell phone/portable gaming console over its size, price, and poor design, Nokia today launched its successor, the N-Gage QD.
The N-Gage has been a failure for Nokia, as sales have" undershot expectations," according to the manufacturer.
Since when do prices go up when sales are bad? ? ?
Good games can overcome bad design.
We don’t even need to refer to statistics to understand that the N-Gage has been a disappointment given the hype it created.
Since its launch in 2003, the N-Gage has been a disappointing seller for Nokia.
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Even with supposed phone company subsidies, the N-Gage is too expensive of an option to make anyone want to switch phones for it.
Because of the limitations of N-Gate's small screen and mobile phone form factor, developers have also been slow to adopt the platform.
The only problem is trying to play games on that horrible keypad.
Pick Up? Talk isn? t cheap: The $300 price tag (which doesn? t include cell-phone airtime), awkward design and controls, and mediocre gaming performance will keep many away from the N-Gage.
News: Nokia N-gage delayed for a third time (Dec 27, 2007)
News: New N-Gage launch gets delayed (Nov 05, 2007)
However, the N-Gage actually loses MP3 playback support from the original N-Gage, and we believe that MP3 support is important in a device like this.
The lack of musical capabilities, camera and relatively small screen size mean that it's not the improvement many people were hoping for.
Changing games took over 70 seconds, using it as a phone required you to hold it in an incredibly awkward angle and the games simply weren't up to standard.
The N-Gage has had a shaky start, but the QD is a step in the right direction and one that shows that there's a lot more to come from Nokia's platform in the future.
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Still, there's no denying that the N-Gage feels flimsy, lacking the welcome Scandinavian ruggedness we've come to expect from Nokia.
The reception was horrible. . .
As an ordinary hold-it-to-your head phone, the N-Gage is mildly ridiculous, because the only place Nokia could find to put the microphone and speaker was the top edge - where the shoulder buttons would live if it were a GBA.
Dusane kako obicno ili preko mmc citaca sam probao i formatira je ali kad je ponovo ubacim u ngage opet mi pise memory card corrupted! ? mito
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