With some games, even more players can join in. Aside from the screen debate, the value added here is multiplayer wireless gaming you can compete head-to-head against another N-Gage owner via Bluetooth or a GPRS connection using Nokia's N-Gage Arena. It's also vertically oriented, which is a liability for certain games. But it's small compared to that of the Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP. The N-Gage's 4,096-color, 176x208-resolution screen is sharp and bright with the backlight on.
Another improvement: The QD's earpiece is built into the face of the unit, so the sidetalkin' phenomenon is, sadly, all but over. Thankfully, this N-Gage has an easily accessible slot for inserting the games, which come stored on MMC media in contrast, the original N-Gage required you to lift the battery out to insert the game card-really. The QD feels solid and durable and withstood some fairly substantial drops in our tests. Weighing in at 5 ounces and measuring 4.7 by 2.7 by 0.9 inches, the device is sized about right, with nice, tactile backlit buttons and a rubber, protective ring around it. Thus, we have the new, improved Nokia N-Gage QD, a more compact and slicker model that fixes many of the mistakes the company made with the original.Įrgonomically and cosmetically, the QD is now much better designed. Lucky for us, those Finns are a tough, ruddy lot who know that the best cure for the common product hangover is another product-the quicker, the better. We're not sure what Homer Simpson's "d'oh" sounds like with a Finnish twang, but it wouldn't surprise us if such a proclamation was uttered several times between shots of Finlandia in a Helsinki sauna as the Nokia execs watched their heavily promoted gaming phone fail to generate any sort of heat in the marketplace. As far as flops go, Nokia's original N-Gage was fairly spectacular, a Heaven's Gate of the electronics world if there ever was one.
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