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Nokia N-Gage delayed further by ‘unexpected difficulties’

Published by Chris Leonard on December 21, 2007 in Applications and Games. 0 Comments

03_n811.jpgGuess what? Nokia’s N-Gage service has been delayed YET AGAIN! It was originally going to be launched this week with much fanfare and a sigh of relief from expectant mobile gamers.

Now it seems it won’t be launching this side of Christmas after all. A post on the official N-Gage blog says that despite teams of people ‘around the world, literally, working overtime’, there are still some ‘unexpected difficulties’ with the N-Gage First Access software.

Apparently an internal test run with over 1,000 testers found an undiscovered issue with the service. Thankfully the games and service in general are apparently working okay but N-Gage First Access isn’t.

Now it looks like the New Year at the earliest. Damn.



Nokia N-Gage finally arriving next week… at least on the N81

Published by Chris Leonard on December 14, 2007 in Games and Handsets. 0 Comments

03_n81.jpgThe official N-Gage blog has announced that the new N-Gage service launches next week (Yay!) Unfortunately it’s only on the N81 for the time being (Boo!).

While Nokia’s keeping to its promise of a pre-Christmas launch, the restriction to N81 and N81 8GB will surely disappoint N82 and N95 8GB owners hoping for some gaming action this Crimbo.

There’ll only be a few games available at launch and won’t be the full version of the service, but it’s a start. Those who want to leave feedback (i.e. complain) about the lack of support can do so on the First Access forums, which will also be opened for business.

Looks like we’ll all have to wait until 2008 for a full service on the rest of Nokia’s Nseries handsets.