Unbelievable

[RLench]

Funnily enough, the demo pod in the store i work has crashed after 3 days on display.

The one down virgin had a demo of tomb raider, I thought I'd give it a go and it crashed on the loading screen.

lol same thing happened to me

I tried it again a day later and got bored by the waiting times

[tankplanker]

I tried it again a day later and got bored by the waiting times

does it use carts?

[RLench]

It uses carts of some kind (I've only played it on demo pods) but I don't know what format/size etc

But the loading times for TR are between 25-30 at the beginning of the game, and maybe 15-20 seconds for each level. A little progress bar pops up and takes ages to load

[mid]

Between the loading and the faffing, you're looking at a minimum time of several minutes if you want to switch from one game to the next. The phone isn't exactly instant in its own startup either.

[tankplanker]

It uses carts of some kind (I've only played it on demo pods) but I don't know what format/size etc

But the loading times for TR are between 25-30 at the beginning of the game, and maybe 15-20 seconds for each level. A little progress bar pops up and takes ages to load

so they have taken the main benefit of carts and chucked it out the window? Truly clueless.

[RLench]

Don't forget you have to turn the phone off, remove the back, then the battery before you can even change a game

Nokia - "we can **** anything up"

[NINTY]

Sill if i could have any mobile phone it would be this.
if you look at this product for one second as a phone and not a games console then it is a very nice (although a tad big) phone

[probeater]

A week ago I would recommend you get an A920 on the 3 network instead of an n-gage for gaming but for some stupid reason 3 have locked the os so you can only install there game and apps on it ft:

[Moodmon]

A really, really expensive phone. That doubles as a poor man's Game Boy.

[mid]

if you look at this product for one second as a phone and not a games console then it is a very nice (although a tad big) phone

What is nice about it as a phone?

You look daft holding it, as it has its speaker on the end rather than the side.

It is not "a tad big". Its bloody huge.

It has the standard new-Nokia problem of having the keypad buttons in a stupid shape.

It also has the the usual Nokia problem of exposed buttons, rather than covering them up like the clamshell designs elsewhere (or even the 7210's slidey thing), meaning that buttons get pressed by accident.

It loses the simplicity of the GUI on older Nokia phones, and makes you work through too many menus to get to the useful basic features.

A GBA SP and an 8210 put together take up about the same space as this device, and I'd definitely recommend that combination over the mess of a device Nokia have designed to do everything.

[Che Musashi]

Just like Nintendo, Nokia has started up its own marketing campaign. Instead of "Who are you?" it will be called "Who bought this device?"

On their website they set up a fight the silver taco shame section. For the three people who actually use it as a phone.

[martTM]

It uses carts of some kind (I've only played it on demo pods) but I don't know what format/size etc

No, it uses sim-like flash cards like the one you use to actually make your phone work - they're dinky, but very fiddly (and easy to lose down the back of the sofa).

Oh, and has anyone realised that a redesigned N-Gage is already in the works? They're going to redesign it, repackage it and rerelease it like any other phone, without any kind of the bru-ha-ha that the GBA/GBA SP debacle had... so you'll have to buy another as you would any other phone. I guess that explains why they think they'll sell 6million in 2 years - 3million in a year (yeah, right - and I'm Abraham Lincoln's monkey helper) and then when the redesigned package hits, they'll expect to sell another 3million.

The Finnish are an optimistic race, eh?

[seibu]

Funnily enough, the demo pod in the store i work has crashed after 3 days on display.

The one down virgin had a demo of tomb raider, I thought I'd give it a go and it crashed on the loading screen.

lol same thing happened to me

I tried it again a day later and got bored by the waiting times

I've been trying to have a go at the n-gage for over a week now. Lots of different demo pods in lots of diffeent stores, both London and Sheffield. I have yet to get past the Tomb Rader title screen!

[Oh! My Car!]

What were Nokia thinking???

Could they have produced a less exciting machine?

yes, and it would be called the TurdMachine, but even that would probably be more interesting, but only due to it's comical name....

[Ady]

The Finnish are an optimistic race, eh?

My bird's Finnish I'll have you know...