Nokia New Style

[Jr2swiss]

I was looking over at Lik-Sang.com and i found out that Nokia is making a successor to N-gage

Over here

Its alot more easier access i guess, but the screen still looks so fudgn small

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

It has been talked about here before, two separate topics actually

Topic 1

Topic 2

 

[mr twit]

How retarded can they be? They bring out a games console that fails pathetically, and they lose millions of dollars, so they decide to bring out another one? :blink: Idiots.
Edit: Especially with the Nintendo DS and the PSP just around the corner.
Edit2: And still the postage stamp screen!

 

[Azure]

How retarded can they be?

So retarded that they take out the MP3 player.

 

[Ganepark32]

They Should just leave it as it is. The N gage was absolute crap and nobody bought it. What makes nokia think that more people will buy this. I say less people will buy it. THey should stick to the phone market because they'll never break into the gaming market properly

 

[coolgpguy]

well i guess they think theyl gain money by cutting out the mp3 and making it smaller

 

[Lethe]

Arg the Original and the smaller version of the N-Gage was BAAAD..... It makes a horrible phone too.

 

[ColinR]

They've probably sunk so much money into the project that developing it further is the only way they can get a return on it.

The meeting probably went something like:
Nokia Boss: N-Gage is dying on it's arse. Why?
Nokia Peon: It sucked.
NB: Why did it suck?
NP: How long have you got? The screen was too small, the battery life was probably too short, you need to take the battery out to change games, and Nintendo has a stranglehold on the handheld market.
NB: Okay, we can't do anything about Nintendo, but we need to get these N-Gage games sold. Make the screen bigger, cut out the mp3 player so people aren't using the phone as a phone/game/mp3 player (making the battery life longer because it's in a passive state more often), and move it's game slot.
NP: We bought a shitload of those screens in bulk - we've got loads left.
NB: Crap. Can we make it look bigger?
NP: We could turn it around.
NB: That'll do. Did the games suck?
NP: I don't know - I've got a GBA.

 

[Alpha2]

strangely enough I had the same impression.

 

[angrypants]

The new version of the n-gage dosn't have an mp3 player but it does have a better button lay out and does away with the side talking crap. I think making it so that you can talk into this thing with out looking like a jack ass and the fact that it costs about half as much as the older version makes up for getting rid of the mp3 player.

 

[jlebrech]

I have the ngage 1, i got it cos i needed a new phone because my old one was really rubbish, and im a bit of a collector

 

[IntenseWage]

I think it actually is a good move. Cutting out the MP3 player isn't the biggest deal in the world. They fixed a lot of other things. Now it just needs better games.

 

[diablo2]

i would buy it if you didn't have to have phone service

 

[Hwrd]

I applaud Nokia for making changes to the nGAGE.

Look past all the details, what happened here is people complained about the original nGAGE and Nokia are doing something about it.

I still don't plan on getting one, since I personally don't perceive the nGAGE as being better than my GP32. But the nGAGE is still a neat machine.

Similarly with the Zodiac. What a great little machine, but I don't think it's significantly superior to the GP32 to warrant me purchasing it. I can still drool though....

 

[finty]

have they changed the screen at all?

 

[Axeman]

Dont think so.

Come on - lets not repeat threads too much.

Cheers

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