The Nokia N-Gage has been released on the market

I'm pretty sure I'm not getting one. But I hope other people will. Nokia has spent ages over this and they deserve to be congratulated.

I hardly ever play on my Nokia 3330, so I don´t think I´ll need a N-gage.

Meh, I don't think it will do well. </opinion>

Meh, I don't think it will do well. </opinion>

Why not. I guess it will appeal to people who play handheld games often.

I dunno, it just has this sort of aura around it that it will bomb. Oh well, could be wrong.

for a true gammer, it will be a great thing im sure. i on the other hand am not a gamer. i hope it does very well.

If you look at how the different Gameboy consoles have sold you pretty much have to conlude that there is a market for these kinds of devices, and I see no reason why this market wouldn´t feel excited about the N-Gage (well, appart from the price). But for people who don´t play games on the road, this isn´t much more than a cool mobile phone. Then again, who knows. Maybe owning a N-Gage would get me into mobile gaming.

Interestingly, the N-Gage is cheaper than the cam phones by Nokia. In fact, it is the cheapest Symbian Series 60 phone by them. S60 is a nice operating system, so the N-Gage is a good phone with premium features, while being quite a bit cheaper than the 3650 (which the N-Gage is acutally based on).

GAmeboy sold loads due to Nintendo. And hype. GameGear should have sold even more than Gameboy. It was in colour!!! And Nintendo couldn't beat it until t3h GBA came out!! In other words, Me>Neo Geo Pocket>GameGear>Wonderswan>Gameboy>

The N-Gage seems cool, and surely has some great potential, but there are some considerations to make: 1 - Being portable only won't help much. That isn't news since 1987, when the first prototypes of GameBoy were released. So much for "mobility" and "best thing since the joystick" (You can go really nuts and remember the Milton/Bradley Microvision as the first portable video game. It was released in 1979) And don't forget the Sega Nomad ^_^ 2 - Phat hardware is cool, but the video game history is full of very powerful consoles that were defeated by older ones that had quite inferior hardware (3DO, DreamCast, NeoGeo, Saturn... and it seems XBox is going the same way). It all boils down to the game options. Wonderful hardware has no use if you don't offer a great library of games to be run on it. Microsoft is noticing now how true that is, seeing the insignificant presence they have in the best market for video games (Japan) because no japanese game producer is caring much for their platform. 3 - They are going to deal with very scary people. To start with, Nintendo, that has all the experience on the field they might need and then some. Up to some time ago, Nokia's experience with games was more or less limited to Snake. And then, about an year from now, Sony is going to release PSP, which everyone is believing will be a killer portable (heck, they made Nintendo's shares value drop the day they announced PSP at E3). I wonder if Nokia will be able to deal with Sony's juggernaught and it's constellation of "affiliated" software houses (Square/Enix, Capcom, Namco, Konami...) Anyway, just some thoughts... Regards; Roberto.

I think we have to remember that the N-Gage is a phone and not just a games console. If it were just a games console it wouldnt be able to compete. However, since it is also a phone, you will find people will use it much more than the average portable game console since they are more likely to carry it with them. how many people their GameBoy advance to work with them. Not many is my guess. However, most people would in fact take their mobile phones to work. Two combine the two in a decent package is a smart move in my opinion.

And quite an advanced phone looking at the features. The list of games is currently a bit short, but titles like Pro Skater and Tomb Raider look like they could be fun to play on the N-Gage. From my perspective N-Gage takes mobile gaming to the next level.

Personally I feel that the sort of people who want to pay that money for a phone, want a funky, smaller, cooler phone with a camera and will pay more even, but are not that interested in games on a big phone. The 'younger' market who want the games may not be able to justify paying for the N-Gage when a handheld console and a basic phone are cheaper. Maybe I am a cynic, but I notice that Nokia and Afterdawn are both incorporated in Finland. Hmmm, I wonder if there is any share interest, after all, how is this 'Afterdawn' news :-D Paul (cynical, you bet!)

I actually couldnt care less about cameras etc.. I want a phone that is small, feature packed and light. Thats my criteria. Thats why i have a Nokia 6100, there is nothing better than it in my opinion at the minute.

I have three phones, a Nokia Communicator (when you hark back to the old Motorola 8500 days and you need a brick on your belt!) a Nokia 8910i, which is my wife's, but she never uses it, so I use it quite a lot And a Sanyo GX20, which I have to say it great :-) Paul.

I have two that i use. One is a crappy Nokia 5100 and the other is a Nokia 6100. The crappy one is for off-peak phone calls to my girl. The other is for all phone calls, peak, messages, off peak, etc...

What´s an "off-peak" phone call?

Ahh, we forget that some of our members live in civilised countries, where the telephony service providers do not rape us for using the phone at social hours. They would all prefer us hermits living in caves using two yogurt cups attached with string at a cost of £4 per minute. We live in UK, where not only do we have ridiculous charging and useless bandwidths even in our capital, but cold weather, Jeremy Beadle and Conran Restaurants. On the bright side, we just had the nicest summer since records began, so you can pretty much be sure we will all die before we see any sun ever again, if the law of averages stays as it does (I suspect it will!) If you don't want to pay over £4,000,000 for a mobile phone you will need something called a contract, where basically if you fail to pay your bill 5 minutes after it is printed (it doesn't matter if they have sent it) they will remove your credit rating (before you do any more damage) take a child from your premises until you start behaving and even occasionally declare war on a small nation. Paul.

Normally in the UK - between 7.00am and 7.00pm phone calls are around 5 times or more expensive than 7.00pm to 7.00am. There are different mobile tarrifs to suit each individuals needs

Oriphus, you sound like a fucking Vodafone commercial. Bollocks. Paul. PS : I am a bit edgy today. Is it obvious? ;-)

Um...er....no it isnt.....um....obvious at all Paul lol ;-)