Tag: N-GAGE
Nokia N81 8GB music phone ships… for £300
Nokia has announced that its Nokia N81 8GB mobile is now shipping, alongside the slightly runtier N81 (and really, if you’re going to buy a top-spec music phone, you want the 8GB version…).
The N81 8GB has an unsubsidised price of 430 Euros (about £300). Normally, I’d ignore that, given that operators generally slash a huge chunk of that price for contract users. However, the N81 has been controversially missed out of some operators’ Christmas handset lineups, meaning that for some networks, you’ll have to pay the unsubsidised price to get one.
Liveblog: Nokia's Go Play music launch in London
Nokia is hosting an event today called Go Play, which looks set to see the debut of the company’s rumoured digital music store, which would be a direct iTunes competitor. Its new N-Gage mobile games platform (as opposed to the old N-Gage games phones) is also set to feature.
I’m liveblogging the event in full: see below for the latest couple of entries, and click on the link below for the full liveblog in chronological order.
PlayStation Phone – one step nearer reality?
So far Sony’s attached its Cyber-shot and Walkman brands to its Sony Ericsson mobiles, with great success – so surely a PlayStation-badged gaming phone is on the way too?
That question was put, once again, to Sony Ericsson’s gaming boss, Peter Ahnegard, who told…
More Nokia rumours: N81 8GB music phone to accompany music download service?
The anticipation is building in the run-up to Nokia’s London event on 29th August, which has already been fingered as the launch of its Will Nokia launch an iTunes-rivalling online music service?“>iTunes-rivalling music download service.
Nokia planning ambitious cross-platform N-Gage / PC game
Later this year, Nokia is having its second crack at the mobile gaming market with a relaunch of N-Gage. However, rather than being a standalone gaming handset, this time it’ll be a mobile gaming platform that runs across a bunch of Nokia’s Series 60 phones.
Nokia World: Next-gen N-Gage to work on 5-7 phones from Day One
Interviewed at Nokia World, the company's games chief Jaakko Kaidesoja said that when Nokia's N-Gage 2.0 platform launches next year – and no, they're not calling it that, I'm just trying desperately to coin a phrase – it will work…
