N-Gage and Amiga.. Do you know N-Gage at all?

[Argo]

Okay, chill out. Don't take it personal. Don't make accusations, that's for everyone.
I don't know about the anttena. Didn't see one in the pics at N-Gage.com. If he said he felt something odd when holding it, that's his opinion. Like he said in his responce it may in fact have been something else.
Just because everyone hasn't fallen in love with the N-Gage, even those that have seen it, doesn't mean they are wrong, misunderstanding it, etc.   Not everyone loves the Amiga. Some PC users joke about it. I'd have thought most members of AO would have this concept. It shouldn't be a surprise.

[ksk]

"If we can work tougether with Nokia and help them, that would be great. And since Nokia is really big, it would help them telling about the Amiga community..."

I think it was great thing that AmigaDE got into MediaTerminal. It would have made Amiga a lot more known also at Nokia Mobile Phones.

Anyway... currently Amiga has nothing to offer.
Nothing that I would dare to mention to my friends @ NMP.

btw. & FYI: Too bad(?) that AInc AA has not taken off properly and that it exist only on M$ mobile devices, on the worst enemy of main mobile phone companies.  I think "MyOrigo" is the only cell phone company actively using inent... but I'm not sure if it would help Amiga-Nokia relations if AA existed there, U C, Microcell and Nokia have rather inflamed relations...
http://www.myorigo.com/index.php?section=Partners.TechnologyPartners


Even if there is a lot of ex and current Amigans working at Nokia,  better just forget the dreaming of good Amiga-Nokia relations. Currently it seems too far fetched.

[kUfa]

AS a mobile game developer, i can tell ya that even if the ngage is one of the fastest phone (not talking about palm aso, but hehe the sx1 is faster i do not like it that much. Why?
Looks ugly hehe, doesnt have infrared, bluetooth is not available from java (and their java classes are very buggy), and the ui is not that intuitive. I really prefer the nokia 6600 (and you can run ngage games on it hehe), but i defenitely prefer my AMIGA!  ;-)

[chromozone]

Dudes
Why settle for a Tarco
When you can have Cake with Cream.

Check out this OUTSTANDING piece of kit.

http://store.tapwave.com/

N-Gauge Sucks chunks
(Why have a Multitasking OS when U have to drop
the battery to swap mem/game cards DOH !  :-P

[McTrinsic]

Yeah, I was about to write the same.

The N-Gage sucks.

Check out

http://www.godoplay.com

The Tapwave  Zodiac ... well whot to they say "ownz" or "rulz".

Palm OS
Great screen, 480x320
Great Battery life
TWO SD -slots for up to 1 GIGABYTE
128 (!) or 32 MB RAM
ARM-CPU
ATI 3D-Graphics accelerator
Yamaha Sound Chip
analog control for gaming
bluetooth

and and and...

blows away N-Gage, Gameboy (any model), Wince (err --- PocketPC )

Have fun,
McTrinsic

[JetFireDX]

To see what I was talking about, check out the pic here I took last night. It looked to me like it was there to protect an antenna of some sorts, but now looks like it might be part of the lock for security.

Pic I took of N-Gage in Display

Since it is obviously not part of the device or covering part of the device, it didn't help the N-Gage make a good first impression on me when I couldn't hold it comfortably right from the start.

[JetFireDX]

@ chromozone

Now that Zodiac may just have something to compete against Nintendo and Sony. Big screen with lots of colors, what appears to be a decent layout for D-Pad and buttons, a sleek and balanced look, 2 easy access slots for memory cards, and all the PDA features of a Palm device. Very cool. Would love to see which big game dev houses jump on with it and what the PSP and Nintendo's future handhelds offer first though.

[Orphan264]

Edited by Argo: Link removed. Please don't antaganize the original poster.

[HopperJF]

Orphan264 wrote:
Great N-Gage related site! :-)

The N-Gage rocks!
I love nokias!  :-D

[bloodline]

In the future, I would love to see such device with AmigaOS installed. I love SymbianOS though, but it would feel right...

Then get the tech specs and help port AROS to it :-)

[aardvark]

Okay the Zodiac is cool, but the problem with it is that it's _not_ a cell phone.  It's more of a cross between a Game Gear and a PDA instead of a Game Gear and a cell phone. This Treo is nice but it probably sucks at games. (Maybe Tetris is okay) :-o
 Kinda looks like you can get 2 out of 3, but nobody has it all yet. :-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Phwa! that Nokia thingie is just another Lynx-wannabe! Way way ahead of it's time that Lynx was.

[Tomas]

One thing i really hate about nokias.. all of them seems to have very sucky battery lifetime compared to other brands.. Even my cheap ericsson seems to have way better battery life time than any of the newer nokias

[Argo]

Okay, I'm going to lock this topic. It's gotten off topic and those anywhere near on topic just slam the n-gage. Not really much of a discussion, is it?
We've all got our own little favorites, lets just leave it at that. Everything has drawbacks, some you can live with and some you can't.