Nokia N-Gage - Game System / Cellular Phone

Received the wrong item and had to resell

The N-gage does, everything that the GBA-SP cant. The thing is, is that the GBA-SP does everything the N-gage doesn't as well. The N-gage can play mp3's, and can act as a cell phone. It uses something called Bluetooth technologhy that does, well, something. it plays old games that we've all seen before, with playstation like graphics. You can even play with people you dont know, as long as they have an N-gage you can play multiplayer games and connect to that person without a wire or anything. But what can it not do, play games decently. First of all this system has terrible graphics. I base this on the many many slow downs that continually happen. In fact the game system is always slowing and the frame rate always seems to be just too much for the little N-Gage. At the moment there is no must have game. This is because, well there is no reason there just aren't any good games for the system, no N-Gage exclusive nothing like that.That leaves us with this. The N-Gage us a new video gaming system that is more costly then the XBOX and PS2, is portable, has bad playstation graphics, with no games and no depth. And to top it all off it can be used as a mediocore phone. A phone that looks really wierd and can be embarassing if your seen with it.Overall dont buy this. I urge you not to buy it. Pick up a Nokia 6600 (still plays n-gage games if you really want them) or some type of verizon phone and try a GBASP. Thats alot better for ya.

WELL HERE WE ARE. THE NGAGE HAS POTENTIAL TO BE ONE OF THE MOST ADVANCED HANDHELD GAME SYSTEMS OF THE FUTURE. IF YOU ARE A TRUE GAMER YOU CAN APPRECIATE THE WORK NOKIA HAS DONE .TO MAKE A SYSTEM MULTI TASK FOR THE EVERY DAY KID OR ADULT WITH AN ACTIVE LIFESTYLE. SOME WILL QUESTION THE CELL PHONE THEORY FOR $300.00WELL IT ISNT JUST A CELL PHONE.. THEN SOME WILL SAY , A HANHELD GAME SYSTEM FOR $300.00 IT ISNT JUST A GAME SYSTEM. THIS LITLE SYSTEM IS CAPABLE TO PLAY GAMES ON A TRUE ACTIVE COLOR SCREENNOT A BACKLITE LIKE THE OTHER ONE. AND IT HAS HAD A LAUNCH OF OVER 10 GAMES NOT LIKE THE OTHER ONE AT LAUNCH WHICH HAD LESS THAN 6 GAMES UPON STREET DATE. NGAGE ALSO HAS INTERNET CAPABILITY TO WHERE YOU CAN CHECK EMAILS, SEND EMAILS,AND HAS WIRELESS GAME PLAY TECHNOLOGY WHERE THE OTHER SYSTEM GBOY DOES NOT...NGAGE HAS THE FM RADIO/MP3 CAPABILITY TO LISTEN TO YOUREITHER FAVORITE STATION OR YOUR OWN COLLECTION OF DOWNLOADED MUSIC. THE GBOY DOES NOT... YOU ALSO HAVE SIMILAR TO PALM PILOTTHE FEATURE OF AN ADDRESS BOOK/ TO DO LISTS ETC. THE GBOY DOES NOT. SO LETS GO OVER SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS:1 NGAGE WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY GBOY DOES NOT2 NGAGE COLOR ACTIVE SCREEN GBOY BACKLIT SCREEN3 NGAGE FM RADIO CAPABILTY GBOY NONE4 NGAGE MP3 DOWNLOADS GBOY NONE5 NGAGE MULTI PLAYER NO CORDS NEEDED GBOY LINK CABLES NEEDED6 NGAGE ADDRESSBOOK TO DO LIST ETC. GBOY NONESO IT REALLY ONLY ADDS UP TO WHAT YOUR NEEDS ARE.FOR MANY THE PRICE IS HIGH BUT SO IS ANYTHING WHEN IT FIRST COMESOUT.BALANCE WHAT YOU MAY THINK IS BETTER FOR YOU. IT IS NOT A TOY! IT SHOUD BE USED AS A FUN TOOL FOR THE PERSON WHO CAN RESPECT ITS TRUE PURPOSE: TO LET PERSON WHO IS ON THE RUN HAVE A MULTI TASK SYSTEM AT THERE DISPOSAL WITHOUT HAVING TO CARRY A BAGFULL OF ELECTRONICS.PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CHECK OUT DIPLAYS IN STORES AND LOOK AT THE GAMES THAT ARE OUT FOR IT. NO ONE CAN FOR SEE THE FUTURE FOR ANY SYTEM HOWEVER THIS LITLE NGAGE CAN BE THENEXT BLOCKBUSTER WITH TIME! THANKS FOR READING...

It brings me a Nokia ngage qd instead of Nokia ngage taco phone. It's from AliExpress not Amazon but the tracking number is correct and my name and address too.

it's a N-Gage, what's not to love?

Oh brother.After eagerly awaiting to see what the N-Gage will be like, I get my hands on one and find it to be a tremendous disappointment. Let me put it to you this way: everything negative you've read about in all those videogame magazines is true. This is a device that should be marketed to the cell phone crowd, not the videogamers. Essentially, it comes across as a Nokia phone wrapped around a fancy new package, right down to the obvious "cell phone" screen.It does several things, but unfortunately does none of them well. The games look great in presentation, but they are presented on a vertical (!!!) phone-style screen which is simply too small and produces too many headaches from eyestrain. The cartridge position is ridiculous, I hated having to perform surgery on the silly thing just to play a game. A strange idea, especially when you read Nokia's official explanation as to why the cartridge is "buried" inside the device which makes no sense. The menus and built-in management were both a mess. Talking on it is an issue all by itself: not only is it terrible to hear in public areas, but its downright embarrassing holding this electronic taco up to your ear! And who wants to splurge on a handset when the option to use it as a normal phone could have been made so much better?Few games are available for it, but that's common. That's not my beef. The problem is that the system itself is simply filled with too many design flaws. If Nokia (obviously a phone company) REALLY wants to create a GAME machine and then market it as a GAME machine, they should have gotten together with an outfit like Nintendo to help them design it for gamers in mind. It's pretty obvious that they had no idea what they were doing. I seriously believe this thing was rushed out the door for Christmas, but the fact the Nokia refused to listen to early consumer complaints about it at showings doesn't support that theory.Let me put it to you this way: I have a beautiful cell phone I adore (a Panasonic GU87), a minidisc player and a GBA. I'd rather have those three than this any day since I get far better performance and usage out of them as opposed to this thing. I took mind back and got a refund.The N-Gage is, unfortunately, a victim of its own design. Part phone, part videogame, part MP3 player, part radio, etc., it really doesn't fit or perform well in any of those categories.