Jaakko Kaidesoja talks with The Inquirer about N-Gage

One of my favorite sites out there, TheINQ. I’ve met some of it’s writers before at past CES events, they really are passionate about their respective field. I don’t care what anyone says about their reputation, I respect these guys for giving no holds bared news with an added bit of British wit and humour. I’ve written articles for them before too, can’t wait to meet up again at CES 07. Read the whole interview, here is just the conclusion of it:

In short
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) plans to make next couple of trade shows their own with cleverly positioned product launches.

It remains to be seen how publishers will react to the OTA/OTI divide, and how operators will react to proposed revenue service. One thing is certain: this could be one of the last bells for mobile multimedia as we want it. Regardless whether talking about all those gaming and video cellphones, truth is that no service or feature sans integrated digital camera and MP3 player had seriously picked up in the western world, and almost two thirds of people are still buying even most powerful mobile phones and using them in an elementary way: making calls and sending short messages.

N-Gage as a unified game development and distribution platform could really rock the boat in more than one way. Be prepared for the 3GSM in Barcelona and CeBIT in Han(g)over.

Platform my ass, either open it up to other Symbian S60 devices or expect to fail. Nokia has something like 35% of the world wide phone market share, yet Symbian has over 70% of the smartphone market … the numbers don’t add up for the poor decision you guys just made.