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AAS review of the N78 continues
Over on All About Symbian, Rafe Blandford has continued his extensive review of the Nokia N78, a phone which will become N-Gage-compatible later this year. In the second part of his review, Rafe concentrates on the N78's multimedia capabilities including photos, video and music. One of the N78's big features is an FM transmitter, which lets you listen to your music collection through any nearby FM receivers including car radios. You can also read the first part of the review here, which covers the actual hardware itself.
N-Gage as a home gaming system using TV Out
In a special feature, All About N-Gage presents a video of N-Gage games running through TV Out, and an editorial on what TV Out means for the future of N-Gage. Could it become much more than just a mobile gaming platform?
Should Nokia use 3D chips on N-Gage games?
It's a hot issue in the N-Gage community: how much support should Nokia give to 3D graphics chips on phones that have them? At the moment no N-Gage games use them, but that situation may change in the near future. In a special editorial, All About N-Gage takes a look at the pros and cons of 3D chips in phones, and wonders what Nokia should do next. Will 3D chips take over phone gaming soon, or are they expensive and unnecessary on such a small screen?
Alternative gaming devices poll results
In our most recent poll we asked the readers of All About N-Gage what devices they played games on apart from their phone. The results produced a very clear winner which received three times more votes than any other option. Want to know what it was? Click on the headline to find out...
N-Gage Inside: Nokia starts shipping first phones with N-Gage built-in
By a curious coincidence, just hours after AAN posted an editorial discussing N-Gage being embedded into phones, Nokia has announced on its official N-Gage blog that it has begun shipping the very first phones with N-Gage pre-installed. This means people will be able to access the new platform on their new phone straight out of the box, which will hugely expand the platform's userbase.
The N-Gage platform must embed or die
N-Gage was meant to have a potential userbase of tens of millions a year, but so far we estimate it's only reached a tiny fraction of that. The main reason for this is the N-Gage application, which has to be installed manually instead of being built into the compatible phones. The embedding of N-Gage in phones straight out of the box will mark the platform's real launch, but it STILL hasn't happened. Why is everything going so slowly? Click on the link to find out...
Future N-Gage phone Nokia N78 reviewed
It's not N-Gage-compatible yet, but the Nokia N78 should become part of the platform at some point over the next few months. If you want to know more about it, head on over to our sister site All About Symbian for part one of an in-depth review of this new phone. We stress again, it's not N-Gage-compatible now, but should become compatible in the near future.
Touchscreen phones or button phones, which are best for gaming? There's only one way to find out...
In the light of Nokia's announcement that they are bringing out touchscreen phones, All About N-Gage takes a look at whether they should introduce touch-based games to the N-Gage platform. Would a touch-based N-Gage platform be a clever move or a bad one? Do most people actually want touchscreen phones at all? And what would Creatures Of The Deep look like on a Nintendo DS?
Yes, the Nokia N95 DOES have gaming keys
If you run N-Gage games on a Nokia N95, its multimedia keys automatically turn into gaming keys equivalent to those on the N81 or N96. There still seem to be a lot of people unaware of this, or even claiming that we're mistaken, so we've done a very short video showing this feature in action. Click here to see it...
Wii eat your heart out: The N82 becomes a motion controller for the real world
As if the tilt-based excitement of Marble Maze wasn't enough, Ewan Spence brings us a special video report from the S60 Summit on a remote controlled car which has been customised to be controlled wirelessly using the Nokia N82. Thanks to the phone's built-in motion sensors and Bluetooth ability, you just tilt the phone in the direction you want the car to go, and it goes. Click on the headline of this item to view the full video, originally made for our sister site All About Symbian.
