Nokia N-Gage Review

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Nokia N-Gage
4.4 stars
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somethingobscure's Review of Nokia N-Gage

17th Jun 2004

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    4.5 stars
  • Time Phone Owned
    1 - 6 Months
  • Battery Life
    2.5 stars
  • Reception
    4.5 stars
  • Reviewers Network
    T-Mobile
  • Screen Quality
    5 stars
  • Features
    4.5 stars
  • Style
    4 stars
Good Points

Excellent music player and PDA functionality.
Flawless bluetooth synchronization.
Nice screen.
You can play Tetris on it!


Bad Points

Pretty useless as a mobile phone.
Need to remove the battery to change memory/game cards.


General Comments

The Nokia N-Gage: Terrific device, useless mobile phone.

The above might seem a harsh judgement at first, but it is accurate and should not be seen as condemning the N-Gage entirely (I am actually quite happy with mine). As a device for information and entertainment, the N-Gage is superb: It's Symbian software platform offers excellent PDA functionality (very usable through the decent screen and numeric keypad), wireless synchronisation with your PC diary, contact and tasks lists, an excellent MP3 player, radio (with handy loudspeaker), useable (but expensive!) GPRS-based Internet and mail access and the ability to load additional software such as games.

In co-operation with a bluetooth headset, the N-Gage is also very useable as a sort of portable desk phone, however it fails pretty miserably as a mobile. This is partly due to the slightly bulky shape, but mainly the idiotic location of the earpiece on the side of the phone: Apart from looking ridiculous, this is simply very uncomfortable to use.

A mobile phone should (nowadays) always be something you can carry easily in a pocket and pull quickly out to answer a call. The N-Gage fails as this. However, its 'additional' functionality is so useful that it's actually still worth considering as a flexible alternative to a PDA/music-player, particularly if you want to retain the option of built-in telephony and Internet. I now use the N-Gage solely in this function, with a small, simple Nokia 1100 as a 'real' mobile phone, and am actually very happy with the combination. Cautiously recommended, thus.

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