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Rumours are afoot that Nokia will discontinue production of the n-gage.After slumping sales and
games dropping off the charts its hardly surprising.
Via:
theinquirer.net
ALTHOUGH NOKIA HAS admitted to some pretty stringent cuts in its R&D budget, its entire N-Gage games unit looks in doubt, according to rumours afoot.
The INQ's Nordic mole claims Nokia is plotting to get rid of its entire Bochum, Germany facility by Q1 2006. That's not just N-Gage R&D we're talking about, it's the production facility as well.
Nokia was refusing calls at press time. Sven Mole was pretty much adamant that this is the end for the N-Gage as we know it, although Nokia could easily switch N-Gage production elsewhere.
Last week Nokia admitted it was dispensing with around 250 R&D staff in Finland while around 100 or so other R&D staff would go from other locations.
There had been some surprise that Nokia had also admitted that it was abandoning its 'image ware' line of cameraphone compatible necklaces. It had been assumed that the high end smartphone/cameraphone sector was where Nokia's key strength lies.
It'll be interesting to see if Nokia can regain the high ground next month @ 3GSM Cannes. Nokia knows what my number is. We've tried enough times in the last two days to get a denial of this rumour. We'll be happy to run the denial, if Nokia folk can be bothered to pick up their phones.
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Posted: 2005-01-19 13:56:15
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how long did it take for you to think of the thread title?
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Posted: 2005-01-19 14:17:00
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Cool title - i agree
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Posted: 2005-01-19 14:18:11
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Axxxr, isn't our news reporter for nuthin'.
Back on topic: It was kind of obvious, after the kind of sales figures they had on the ngage.
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Posted: 2005-01-19 14:21:50
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Quote:Nature wrote:
how long did it take for you to think of the thread title?
Its good isn't it....Actually its the title from the
theinquirer article!
..So its not really mine!
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Posted: 2005-01-19 14:22:34
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i quite liked the n-gage.
it's still the cheapest symbian smartphone with fm radio and can accomodate a 1Gb MMC card, which is great for music on the move.
i can't say the same about the styling though.
well.. n-gage R.I.P
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Posted: 2005-01-19 18:09:03
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Not suprising. But the "image ware" is news. Why did they do that. Prob it had far few takers than anticipated.
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Posted: 2005-01-19 18:13:22
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i dont think it would have helped the ngage that all the games were cracked and on the internet within 5 mins of release and also that the can be play on any s60 phone
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Posted: 2005-01-19 18:22:37
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Brilliant.
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Posted: 2005-01-19 18:23:55
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On 2005-01-19 18:09:03, plasmadog wrote:
which is great for music on the move.
Please correct me if i'm wrong, but did the N-Gage QD support MP3? I thought it didn't...
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Posted: 2005-01-19 18:24:29
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