News Nokia N-Gage at PC Mag

PC Mag has reviewed the N-Gage, and unfortunatly as cool as the device sounds, it looks as if it has a few issues:

"Targeted at mobile gamers, the Nokia N-Gage ($299 list) offers online, mobile, multiplayer game play using Bluetooth and GPRS. he unit provides a backlit screen that has a 208- by 176-pixel resolution, measures 1.6 by 1.4 inches (HW), and contains 4,096 colors. The unit also has an eight-way directional controller, or rocker. The N-Gage may very well define the mobile gaming market: a device that can serve as a mobile game platform, a tri-band GSM phone, an MP3 player, an FM tuner, an e-mail client, and a personal information manager.

Unfortunately, several design flaws severely limit the device's usefulness, and we fear that the N-Gage will go down in history as a poorly implemented great idea."

Full review here

 

Good thing you posted. I got a Gameboy instead.......

 

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had a play on one today, the graphics are quite good! Lot better than the GBA, much more fluid and playable. Pitty the thing looks so butt ugly, who'd wanna use it as a phone??!

 

The main problem for all the new portables is the fact that the gameboy has an ARMY of games. I mean, theres well over 10,000 games you can play on your gameboy, because Nintendo was smart and made all new versions of the gameboy play the old games.

 

ive had a SP for couple of months now and im happy wiv it, im gonna stick to trusty Nintendo because Nokia make phones and should stick to phones...prolly dont make no sense but hey! thats life!