Nokia’s finally pulled the plug on its N-Gage games platform, announcing this afternoon that its much maligned stab at attracting movile thumb-twiddlers is going the way of the dodo.
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Lunchtime y’all! Close your spreadsheets, shut down your email and sit back for a round up of all the tech news you might have missed this morning. It’s all after the jump!
Zeemote – the Bluetooth game controller for mobile games – is finally to be available as a stand-alone product rather than part of a mobile gaming bundle.
The N97 is the future of N-Gage, with a wide screen, 3D accelerator and touchscreen controls, but that’s not all Nokia has plans for its gaming platform: next up we’ll see music and location-based games, says its thumb-twiddling head honcho.
It’s been counting down since yesterday, but Nokia just unveiled its all-new N-Series, the gorgeous N97. Yes, it’s touchscreen. Yes, there’s a hardware keyboard too, and yes, it’s simply astounding.
The Nokia World expo kicks off tomorrow, with a feast of Finnish-flavoued phone goodies on offer for the world to see. There’ll be seminars, a peep at what the Big N’s working on next, and maybe even a product launch or two. But what do you want to see? New N-Series, new N-Gage, new E-Series or the Tube 2?
Nokia has confirmed it’ll launch a ton of touchscreen N-Gage games early next year, neglecting to mention that its only touchscreen phone is the 5800 XpressMusic, which doesn’t support N-Gage. That must mean there’s a finger-friendly N-Series just around the corner!
Electronic Arts may be planning a range of new mobile games releases this winter, but that doesn’t mean everything is sweet and dandy between Nokia and the publishing giant. Speaking publically at the 2008 Nokia Games Summit in Rome, EA Mobile’s Peter Parmenter was far from restrained when highlighting the shortcomings in the N-Gage service and frequently pointed out the superiority of the rival iPhone service.