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N-Gage Future in Doubt?
srashdotu writes "The Inquirer is reporting rumors that the plug will be pulled on the N-Gage due to the complete closure of the Nokia's Germany production facility by Q1 2006. Nokia has refuted this, however, claiming "We're looking at the strongest line-up of games yet for N-Gage. There's been so much money and effort poured into the system we're not going to pull out now."." Given recent events it is not hard to imagine this being true, though.
... here come dozens of anti-N-Gage comments by people who never touched one! :)
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Ol' Ma Bell perfected the 4 x 3 phone button array decades ago. Why does Nokia feel it has to curve them just for a swoopy look, while ignoring that it makes it so the buttons are in non-standard locations so you have to look and hunt for them? (example: 3 key above 1 key, while pound key below star key...pretty bizarre). Looking at this, there is no reason a standard non-curved array of button would have fit here. They have yet another hard-to-use non-standard version of the 4 x 3 array on many of their phones. Aside from that, you look like a dope if you try to use this as a phone and hold it to your ear.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Phones get outdated much too quickly for the N-Gage to stay attractive long enough to create a market. Quite frankly ive never been interested in buying one, its big , unhandy and there are much cooler phones out there. Now the gameplay might not be bad, i never tried it so i wouldn't know, i think the problem was that there never was a market for such a gadget.