Vishus
03-11-2005, 04:10 AM
New-N-Improved N-Gage N-route
Nokia's Gerard Wiener says "a new look and feel" for the QD is in store, promises colors and CDMA compatibility.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That seems to be the watchword at Nokia's games business program, which is prepping a revamped version of the N-Gage QD for release.
Although the company's American representatives would only say that the Finnish handset giant "will be making an announcement early next week," Reuters has it on good authority--Gerard Wiener, director and general manager of the games business program at Nokia--that those changes, and more, are due shortly.
Speaking to Reuters informally at this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the executive said Nokia was contemplating new colors, and "a new look and feel" for the current N-Gage model, the QD. The update to the original N-Gage was launched in July of 2004, but remains a distant contender in the handheld gaming sector, having sold only 1.5 million units worldwide since launch, according to Reuters.
Wiener also told Reuters states handset maker is considering manufacturing models that run on CDMA wireless networks. "There's no question addressing the CDMA market is something we'd like to be doing," he said. The QD, as other Nokia handsets do, is based on the GSM standard. CDMA (as well as W-CDMA) wireless networks are more prevalent and offer faster networking speeds.
When contacted by GameSpot US Nokia reps would go only so far as to advise the industry to "stay tuned" to forthcoming news "early next week."
By Tor Thorsen, Curt Feldman -- GameSpot
POSTED: 03/10/05 05:53 PM PST
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/10/news_6120219.html
Ok Nokia is just being really stupid. What does that have to do with improving their machine's gaming quality?
Nokia's Gerard Wiener says "a new look and feel" for the QD is in store, promises colors and CDMA compatibility.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. That seems to be the watchword at Nokia's games business program, which is prepping a revamped version of the N-Gage QD for release.
Although the company's American representatives would only say that the Finnish handset giant "will be making an announcement early next week," Reuters has it on good authority--Gerard Wiener, director and general manager of the games business program at Nokia--that those changes, and more, are due shortly.
Speaking to Reuters informally at this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the executive said Nokia was contemplating new colors, and "a new look and feel" for the current N-Gage model, the QD. The update to the original N-Gage was launched in July of 2004, but remains a distant contender in the handheld gaming sector, having sold only 1.5 million units worldwide since launch, according to Reuters.
Wiener also told Reuters states handset maker is considering manufacturing models that run on CDMA wireless networks. "There's no question addressing the CDMA market is something we'd like to be doing," he said. The QD, as other Nokia handsets do, is based on the GSM standard. CDMA (as well as W-CDMA) wireless networks are more prevalent and offer faster networking speeds.
When contacted by GameSpot US Nokia reps would go only so far as to advise the industry to "stay tuned" to forthcoming news "early next week."
By Tor Thorsen, Curt Feldman -- GameSpot
POSTED: 03/10/05 05:53 PM PST
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/10/news_6120219.html
Ok Nokia is just being really stupid. What does that have to do with improving their machine's gaming quality?