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N-Gage Forum May Come Back To Life W/ New Announcements!!
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Posted by: pfreitas

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Vari...news.asp?c=1950

http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/0...ng_platform.htm

This is BiG news for those of us that loved/love their N-gages!! Imagine what tv-out and wifi would do for an N-gage...along with horizontal gameplay and using multiple devices. Damn I'm syked!!

Posted by: penk

Holy Toledo!

thank the gods it's not April!

Posted by: angel_wing0

it's a platform...not a new device thou

Posted by: pfreitas

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Originally Posted by angel_wing0

it's a platform...not a new device thou

I know but somewhere its mentioned that an n-gage device will be released eventully as well....im more excited about running the games on an N93/95 type phone with an optional BT gaming controller!.....but I digress...not sure which article I saw it in but there is an n-gage device being developed as well. It wouldnt make much sense to continue the "n-gage" name if they dont develop a new one.

Posted by: theballinboy

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Originally Posted by greentooth

a new n-gage device will be good tho cuz the QD is poor in options

Posted by: pfreitas

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Originally Posted by theballinboy

a new n-gage device will be good tho cuz the QD is poor in options

no doubt....

Check out this sick game

http://www.mobileangler.com/flash.html

run the videos....it's pretty amazing

Posted by: pfreitas

hat's happening to the current N-Gage and N-Gage QD? What's happening to Arena? Will my current generation games still work on the Next Generation?

The original "classic" N-Gage launched in 2003 and was discontinued in 2004 when the redesigned but same generation N-Gage QD model replaced it. The QD has itself just been discontinued in 2006, and there are no first generation N-Gage games in development any more. The last release for the first generation was Payload, which was released this month as a download in the N-Gage Game Shop along with other First Party games. The first generation of N-Gage is being wound up in preparation for the Next Gen platform appearing some time in the first half of 2007. You will still be able to buy first generation N-Gage games made by Nokia as downloads from the Game Shop however.

The hardware used by the original N-Gage is evolving, not disappearing. Despite what Nokia's marketing department may have told you, the N-Gage and N-Gage QD were not games consoles, they were standard Nokia Symbian S60 1st Edition smartphones inside horizontal casings. There was no specialist gaming hardware whatsoever used in the N-Gage or QD, and their games were technically speaking Symbian S60 smartphone games (that's why pirated N-Gage games could run on other S60 smartphones from the same period such as the Nokia 3650). The Next Gen platform will consist of a range of Nokia S60 3rd Edition smartphones, using the latest software and hardware. The processors will be three or four times faster than the N-Gage, they will have far more RAM, and some or all of them may have 3D graphics chips. For more details see the section below on Next Gen hardware.

N-Gage Arena will continue on the Next Generation and expand as the Next Gen makes lots of new features available.

Current generation games will probably not work on the Next Gen. New smartphones no longer have MMC-sized memory card slots, they use much smaller miniSD and microSD cards so current gen N-Gage gamecards simply won't fit in the new phones' slots. Downloads won't work either because Nokia's latest smartphones run on Symbian S60 3rd Edition whereas the N-Gage and N-Gage QD run on Symbian S60 1st Edition. For various technical reasons S60 3rd Edition isn't backwards compatible with 1st Edition, so the games written for N-Gage and QD won't work on 3rd Edition smartphones.

Posted by: angel_wing0

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Originally Posted by theballinboy

a new n-gage device will be good tho cuz the QD is poor in options

the original is better

Posted by: pfreitas

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Originally Posted by angel_wing0

the original is better

The original would still be in my arsenal if it had 850...and its not a matter of over rated

lol. I can not pick up a signal in my home with a 1900 only. Perhaps If I was with T-Mobile it would be different....and the screen could be brighter but other than that it's still on my top 3 all time S60 phones.

Posted by: angel_wing0

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Originally Posted by greentooth

The original would still be in my arsenal if it had 850...and its not a matter of over rated

well u lose some u get some back then fom nokia, no one would buy the QD if the original has 850

Posted by: roncito

QUIERO TACo BELL!!! great news .... I hardly can't wait

Posted by: angel_wing0

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Originally Posted by roncito

QUIERO TACo BELL!!! great news .... I hardly can't wait

yip i want a ngage 2

not likely thou

Posted by: Rcadden

I'm actually considering picking up an Ngage QD to use as a BT remote for my PC via ControlFreak. That's it, that'd be its only function, lol.

Posted by: pfreitas

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Originally Posted by Rcadden

I'm actually considering picking up an Ngage QD to use as a BT remote for my PC via ControlFreak. That's it, that'd be its only function, lol.

Still a pretty cheap alternative...and about all it's good for in todays standards.

Posted by: angel_wing0

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Originally Posted by greentooth

Still a pretty cheap alternative...and about all it's good for in todays standards.

hey it has better funtions than v3 except for the camera

now get your *** up and reply to your pm's

Posted by: pfreitas

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Originally Posted by angel_wing0

hey it has better funtions than v3 except for the camera

now get your *** up and reply to your pm's

A dog has better functions than a V3....and I have A 3 yr old...I'm not allowed to sleep in

Posted by: angel_wing0

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Originally Posted by greentooth

A dog has better functions than a V3....and I have A 3 yr old...I'm not allowed to sleep in

lmao...should i feel bad for u? haha