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Nokia webcast from Berlin 24th Apr 06
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I would hope that several N series phones may use the OMAP 2420, but until we here more from IMG, Nokia or TI we just do not know. The specs on the N93 fit the bill, and I think they do as well on the N73 but for one reason or another nobody is confirming or is allowed to say so???
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/The_Nseries_Piloting_The_N-Gage_Gaming_Platform.php
With all the flurry of the N93, N73 and N72 launches, have Nokia sneaked in a new element of the N-Gage gaming platform? Ewan thinks so...
Not the N-GageDid you notice that, at the start of the week, Nokia showed us the future of four Nseries devices? Nope, you’re reading that correctly. As well as the N93, N73 and N72, there was also the reinforcement of where the N-Gage Platform is going.
The specifications of the N93 give it away – bundled in the firmware will be the game “System Rush – Evolutionâ€. System Rush is a futuristic racer that’s currently one of more impressive titles for the N-Gage phone. But with the N-Gage phones still based on Symbian OS 6.1 and S60v1, there’s no way to get the applications into the latest v2 and v3 S60 devices without some serious re-coding of the games. So the dual-meaning of the title is true in every sense.
The problem of course is the N-Gage brand. In a sense it’s great to have this label that shows people you’re talking about a high quality game for a mobile phone, even though there is a certain stigma attached to N-Gage for various reasons best left to a an article longer than this. Ever since the N-Gage in Barcelona event, where Nokia declared that the new gaming platform would also carry the N-Gage banner, there’s been a problem communicating that, while the N-Gage phone is still available and the games are still coming through (such as Civilisation and Warhammer 40000 recently released), it’s not been junked. Neither did they say a new N-Gage phone would be out in 2006.
What they said was that phones using the N-Gage Platform would start to appear through the year, and the N93 is the second such phone. The results of bundling Snakes in the N70 must have gone down well with the focus groups, as they’ve continued the exercise. But what’s most important is that this is the first ‘N-Gage Branded’ game that runs on S60 v3 – in other words the Nokia buzz phrase of “the next generation mobile gaming platform’ is no longer vapourware. It’s now in beta.
System RushOf course, this single piece isn’t the whole platform – we’ve still to see the ability to purchase and download the games on our desktop computers, and then transfer these over to the smartphones (or mobile computers, or whatever they get labelled). And you have to assume that with the lead time that even N-Gage games for Symbian OS 6.1 required (in the region of 9 to 12 months) that the pipeline of games is already decided upon.
With the announced Nseries devices spaced out over Q2 and Q3, it would make sense to have another announcement for the festive period of phones. I think that’s when we’ll see the first serious S60 v3 gaming phone. Until then, there’ll be lots of little announcements and technology testing of the separate elements, before the launch of the all new gaming phone. And the canny Finns are going to assemble it in front of everyone, like a latter day Harry Houdini.
With all the flurry of the N93, N73 and N72 launches, have Nokia sneaked in a new element of the N-Gage gaming platform? Ewan thinks so...
Not the N-GageDid you notice that, at the start of the week, Nokia showed us the future of four Nseries devices? Nope, you’re reading that correctly. As well as the N93, N73 and N72, there was also the reinforcement of where the N-Gage Platform is going.
The specifications of the N93 give it away – bundled in the firmware will be the game “System Rush – Evolutionâ€. System Rush is a futuristic racer that’s currently one of more impressive titles for the N-Gage phone. But with the N-Gage phones still based on Symbian OS 6.1 and S60v1, there’s no way to get the applications into the latest v2 and v3 S60 devices without some serious re-coding of the games. So the dual-meaning of the title is true in every sense.
The problem of course is the N-Gage brand. In a sense it’s great to have this label that shows people you’re talking about a high quality game for a mobile phone, even though there is a certain stigma attached to N-Gage for various reasons best left to a an article longer than this. Ever since the N-Gage in Barcelona event, where Nokia declared that the new gaming platform would also carry the N-Gage banner, there’s been a problem communicating that, while the N-Gage phone is still available and the games are still coming through (such as Civilisation and Warhammer 40000 recently released), it’s not been junked. Neither did they say a new N-Gage phone would be out in 2006.
What they said was that phones using the N-Gage Platform would start to appear through the year, and the N93 is the second such phone. The results of bundling Snakes in the N70 must have gone down well with the focus groups, as they’ve continued the exercise. But what’s most important is that this is the first ‘N-Gage Branded’ game that runs on S60 v3 – in other words the Nokia buzz phrase of “the next generation mobile gaming platform’ is no longer vapourware. It’s now in beta.
System RushOf course, this single piece isn’t the whole platform – we’ve still to see the ability to purchase and download the games on our desktop computers, and then transfer these over to the smartphones (or mobile computers, or whatever they get labelled). And you have to assume that with the lead time that even N-Gage games for Symbian OS 6.1 required (in the region of 9 to 12 months) that the pipeline of games is already decided upon.
With the announced Nseries devices spaced out over Q2 and Q3, it would make sense to have another announcement for the festive period of phones. I think that’s when we’ll see the first serious S60 v3 gaming phone. Until then, there’ll be lots of little announcements and technology testing of the separate elements, before the launch of the all new gaming phone. And the canny Finns are going to assemble it in front of everyone, like a latter day Harry Houdini.
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