Comments on: Nokia finally sets N-Gage free http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/nokia_finally_sets_n-gage_free.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:14:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Issah http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/nokia_finally_sets_n-gage_free.html/comment-page-1#comment-221659 Issah Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:49:10 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6110#comment-221659 Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't N-Gage's target market youngsters like myself. If so, it is a little worrying that 90% of the teens I've speak to still reckon it's the rubbish handset it once was. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t N-Gage’s target market youngsters like myself. If so, it is a little worrying that 90% of the teens I’ve speak to still reckon it’s the rubbish handset it once was.

]]> By: MarkW http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/nokia_finally_sets_n-gage_free.html/comment-page-1#comment-221656 MarkW Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:58:36 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6110#comment-221656 I agree with Terence. Given all the time, testing and anticipation you would think a behemoth like Nokia would get it right. Wrong. The installation is clunky (and failed the first few times). When I finally got it running I tried to download the first game. Eventually it agreed to do it. But after about 8MB of download (phew, HSDPA) the damn thing throws an unhelpful error every time I try to run it. I've given up. I'm not that fussed about gaming on my phone anyway. I might have got into it if it worked. It doesn't. Nice one Nokia! I agree with Terence. Given all the time, testing and anticipation you would think a behemoth like Nokia would get it right. Wrong. The installation is clunky (and failed the first few times). When I finally got it running I tried to download the first game. Eventually it agreed to do it. But after about 8MB of download (phew, HSDPA) the damn thing throws an unhelpful error every time I try to run it. I’ve given up. I’m not that fussed about gaming on my phone anyway. I might have got into it if it worked. It doesn’t. Nice one Nokia!

]]> By: Terence Eden http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/nokia_finally_sets_n-gage_free.html/comment-page-1#comment-221651 Terence Eden Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:16:25 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6110#comment-221651 It's such a pity that the service is an absolute arse to install - see my walkthrough at http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2008/04/n-gage-user-experience-100-failure.html Then you have the problem that some of the games weigh in at over 20MB! Not fun to download - even on HSDPA - and you'd better hope you've got a good data plan or remember to switch to wifi. The lack of games reminds me of Nokia's "Download!" store on the N95. Overall, a real wasted oppurtunity. It’s such a pity that the service is an absolute arse to install – see my walkthrough at
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2008/04/n-gage-user-experience-100-failure.html

Then you have the problem that some of the games weigh in at over 20MB! Not fun to download – even on HSDPA – and you’d better hope you’ve got a good data plan or remember to switch to wifi.

The lack of games reminds me of Nokia’s “Download!” store on the N95.

Overall, a real wasted oppurtunity.

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