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Hacking The N-Gage - SideTalkin' To BackTalkin'

Posted by simoniker on from the snide-comments-begone dept.

ceemrl writes "All About N-Gage have the scoop on ending the silly-looking phone side-talkin' required if you own an original Nokia N-Gage game deck/phone, with a neat hardware hack." Amusingly, the hack involves: "Taking a 3mm drill bit and very carefully working through [the back of the N-Gage near the phone speaker housing] until you break through the plastic", and the authors note: "As long as you didn't damage the speaker when drilling, the sound should be a similar level to side talkin'."

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  1. Yeah by Foo2rama · · Score: 2, Informative

    No offense... I like nokia.. but 17 games out, a few games in developement on their home page cancelled. And a replacement on the horizon... If you listen carefully you can here the giant sucking noise... but only if you sidetalk or mod for backtalk... hmm reartalk...

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    1. Re:Yeah by TonkaTown · · Score: 2, Informative

      Only 17 games?

      You're not looking too hard, if you were to include any one of the emulators you'd be well into the 100s without trying. There's also plenty of native Symbian C++ and Java games from the smaller games houses that can't justify going the MMC route.

      Also there's no "replacement on the horizon" (yet), the N-Gage QD is shipping in Europe now and in the US by the end of the month. It's not a replacement for the classic Taco though, Nokia have launched it as a complimentary product to create the start of an N-gage range.