tom
12-02-2003, 07:02 PM
After using my Nokia N-Gage for 1 month, I actually like it very much.
Being a 'weird item new freak', like I got a Tiger game.com for full price when it was first released, I thought that a Nokia N-Gage would be right up my street.
My N-Gage came with a 32MB memory card, which includes a naff game called 'Flo Boarding'. The girl in the game, Flo, even blows you a kiss. Sweet. Nevermind, the game play is not bad for a few hours of snow boarding down the piste. Well, it was free!
My first MMC was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, the Activision effort for Nokia is excellent, but then I love the game anyway. The D-pad works very good, and the raised buttons (5 and 7) help the game play for easy pressing the right buttons. £25.00 per game is ok, if the game is right. So far, Nokia released some top titles (Monkey Ball, SonicN), but I got to get some more titles myself to judge this.
Downloading games is easy and quick, I managed to download Rayman 3 for £5.99 and some other Nokia-only titles like the new and good Snake EX 2. Surfing and emailing is also very easy to set up and to use.
Radio on the N-Gage is of good quality and quite loud when using headphones, and as for tranferring MP3 titles, this also works a treat.
As soon as I get my 128MB memory card, I will find out how many music tracks I can transfer to the unit.
Copying music from a CD player is straight forward, and the link cable for this is also supplied.
Quite excellent is the N-Gage-PC USB link cable, which uses the N-Gage just like a drive on the PC, eg, if C: is your HDD and D: your CD-Rom, E: is the N-Gage for drag and drop file transfer. Quick, easy and it works for back-up, games and MP3s file transfer and any other file you might want to take with you (DOC files or whatever).
Using the N-Gage as a cell-phone is weird, but you get used to it after a short while. I thought that people might look at me funny when using the unit sideways, but the feedback I got so far is 'wow, cool, N-Gage, thumbs up'. So no worries there.
That was 1 month using the N-Gage, and so far it's been a positive month. Gaming on N-Gage is great, not on par with GBA SP, but better than GBA, and the radio and MP3 player are a great bonus (oh, and the phone, of course!!!).
Being a 'weird item new freak', like I got a Tiger game.com for full price when it was first released, I thought that a Nokia N-Gage would be right up my street.
My N-Gage came with a 32MB memory card, which includes a naff game called 'Flo Boarding'. The girl in the game, Flo, even blows you a kiss. Sweet. Nevermind, the game play is not bad for a few hours of snow boarding down the piste. Well, it was free!
My first MMC was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, the Activision effort for Nokia is excellent, but then I love the game anyway. The D-pad works very good, and the raised buttons (5 and 7) help the game play for easy pressing the right buttons. £25.00 per game is ok, if the game is right. So far, Nokia released some top titles (Monkey Ball, SonicN), but I got to get some more titles myself to judge this.
Downloading games is easy and quick, I managed to download Rayman 3 for £5.99 and some other Nokia-only titles like the new and good Snake EX 2. Surfing and emailing is also very easy to set up and to use.
Radio on the N-Gage is of good quality and quite loud when using headphones, and as for tranferring MP3 titles, this also works a treat.
As soon as I get my 128MB memory card, I will find out how many music tracks I can transfer to the unit.
Copying music from a CD player is straight forward, and the link cable for this is also supplied.
Quite excellent is the N-Gage-PC USB link cable, which uses the N-Gage just like a drive on the PC, eg, if C: is your HDD and D: your CD-Rom, E: is the N-Gage for drag and drop file transfer. Quick, easy and it works for back-up, games and MP3s file transfer and any other file you might want to take with you (DOC files or whatever).
Using the N-Gage as a cell-phone is weird, but you get used to it after a short while. I thought that people might look at me funny when using the unit sideways, but the feedback I got so far is 'wow, cool, N-Gage, thumbs up'. So no worries there.
That was 1 month using the N-Gage, and so far it's been a positive month. Gaming on N-Gage is great, not on par with GBA SP, but better than GBA, and the radio and MP3 player are a great bonus (oh, and the phone, of course!!!).