NY Times confirms N-Gage launch to happen this week
By Stefan Constantinescu on Sunday, August 26th, 2007 at 7:10 PM PST In Nokia
I have few regrets in life, mainly because thinking about them is a waste of time, but something that has recently been developing inside of me are feelings of remorse. After sitting down with product managers, engineers, marketers, strategists, etc at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) I developed an even stronger bond with the company than ever before. Knowing about the next device Nokia is going to release used to be about unraveling an intricate story with facts that didn’t line up and rumors in multiple languages that I had to feed into Babble Fish. For what?
Seeing people excited about what they’re working on and wanting to keep it a secret until the official product launch date does something to you. It forces you to realize that hey, your scoop ruined the story telling.
Granted I’m a conspiracy theorist and believe some leaked images are actually planted, but for the most part leaks just make things less exciting. I’m going to London in less than 48 hours and I have a rough idea of what will be launched thanks to numerous articles and by big names such as Fortune and the NY Times. Will it make my trip less exciting? To be honest, yes.
Now I’m not advocating Nokia turn into the next Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), but can something be done to keep things like this a little more private? Maybe not telling Fortune and The New York Times?
Back on topic, Brad Stone just confirmed that N-Gage 3.0 (he considers the QD 2.0) will launch this week.
[Apologies for the blown up logo, it was all I had to work with]
It’s an excellent and interesting article. And, I think, fairly likely something that Nokia authorized to be published. I doubt he could have otherwise gotten all the details on the research done, the design company Nokia consulted etc.
In any case, I am very exited for gamers and Nokia! Can’t wait for it to be launched!
Is the N-gage going to launched at the Ministry of Sound ?
Stefan I’m 100% with you.
To be honest I’d prefer to know nothing about the new mobiles until the day they’re presented. In fact if possible, I’d like to be surprised with them in the stores!!
But at the same time we (mobile addicted) always want to know more. What’s the next big thing, etc, so it’s a pretty confusing and hard-to-deal situation.