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The N-Gage QD is a phone built especially for gamers. It brings you wireless multiplayer gaming with full color 3D graphics, top titles by the best developers, and the extensive features of a well equipped mobile phone. N-Gage QD gamers ... have access to the worldwide N-Gage Arena community, where you can play games online or connect with your gaming friends wherever you go. The smooth design is optimized for gaming, and the compact size makes the gamer’s phone fit perfectly in your pocket.
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The N-gage ... suffered from a software bug problem known as the White Screen of Death, a memory management issue that rendered the phone inoperational if the main memory was used beyond a certain capacity. This prevented the phone from booting and could only be solved by flashing its firmware. Nokia also had a support contract exclusively for the N-Gage that enabled them to reimburse users with such problems for less than the phone cost, disregarding any responsibilities as to this particular problem, due to the phone no longer being supported (although still marketable).
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The N-Gage was not as commercially popular as Nokia estimated. In its first weeks of availability in the United States, it was outsold by the Game Boy Advance by two orders of magnitude (500,000 units vs 5000).[2][3] Within 17 days of the deck's release, popular retailers GameStop and Electronics Boutique began offering $100 rebates on the deck's price.[4]
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Ovi brand of Internet services, Nokia is reviving the much-maligned N-Gage gaming platform in a new way. Instead of offering a hardware-based gaming system, Nokia is opening up a mobile gaming portal with the N-Gage branding. Once accessed, you can browse through a wide selection of game titles, download free trials, and finally purchase the games directly from Nokia. heavily promoting the community aspect of the new N-Gage platform, suggesting that you can connect and play with friends all over the world, as well as keep track of global gaming stats. As with the Music store, you can either purchase the game over the air or download it to your PC first. And these aren't just any ordinary games, either.
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From a cell phone standpoint, the N-Gage ... faced problems. Besides the unusual form factor, in the US it was initially sold primarily through specialty game outlets instead of through cell phone providers, which only called attention to its high pre-subsidy price, lack of games, and curious interface compared to other gaming devices (thanks to the Series 60 interface and unusual face button layout). Once cellphone retail outlets started carrying the phone, which didn't become a widespread practice in the US until well after the release of the N-Gage QD, it still faced problems. The N-Gage and its successor, the N-Gage QD, worked only on GSM networks, meaning that it was incompatible with the then-largest US cell service provider, Verizon Wireless, as well as all of Japan's cell networks. Where N-Gage was compatible with major cell phone networks its popularity varied. It was not well received in Canada and the UK for instance but received a much warmer reception in mainland Europe and in particular Asia where games on mobile phones were seen as much more desirable.
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ESPOO, Finland, October 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- N-Gage gamers around the world can now take their passion for games to the next level with the all-new N-Gage Mobile Fan Packs. N-Gage Mobile Fan Packs combine the sights and sounds from the some of the most popular N-Gage games, which gamers can then use to personalize their N-Gage game deck. Each Mobile Fan Pack includes items such as ring tones, message alert tones, multimedia message (MMS) animations, N-Gage Arena launcher skins as well as background images to display on your N-Gage idle screen.
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