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Official: N-Gage launch delayed by one month, December 2007 due date

Categories: Nokia, Ovi
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, November 2nd, 2007 at 9:31 AM

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Straight from Kari Tuutti:

“N-gage is coming in December. Software testing is taking a bit more time than what we had expected, we are talking about a couple of weeks.”

That is why the Go Play page was down last night. Shame, we were all waiting for the N82. Maybe the new release date will be at Nokia World on the 4th of December.

[Source: Reuters]

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  • Varun

    How long are we supposed for the new ngage ?

    Its going to be an year since the new ngage platform was announced ?

  • phonophiliac

    So lame… I’m supprisingly unsuprised by yet another Nokia delay…

    Where the hell are my N-gage games and new (read: without keypress bug) firmware for my N95-1?!?!?!

    Disappointed in Houston,
    Phono

  • Viipottaja

    One way to look at it though is that its good they try to at least fix the bigger bugs before the launch.. :)

  • Ben

    Can only say I agree with Viipottaja and can put in that is worth to wait to get the best :cool:

  • TB

    The official N-Gage Blog has just posted a message confirming that the Next Gen platform won’t go live until December, and that it may also have some extra games added to the launch lineup. You can buy the compatible phones right now, but the game downloads won’t start until next month.

    There were some earlier reports today on Reuters which quoted Nokia as saying that software testing problems had cropped up, and they needed a couple more weeks to get things right.
    Anyone who remembers the original N-Gage’s disastrous launch will appreciate Nokia’s nervousness about launch problems, so it’s perhaps understandable that they’d be very keen to make sure things work properly.
    It’s worth emphasising that the launch date of the Next Gen isn’t that important because tens of millions of people have already bought the hardware. All that will happen on the launch day is that the N-Gage game download application will become available to the public, something they can download and install in a matter of minutes. There won’t be any midnight queues in games shops as games shops won’t be involved in Next Gen N-Gage at all.
    The Next Gen games themselves are being sold entirely as downloads, so there was never any question of people buying them as Xmas pressies. The only physical items related to the Next Gen N-Gage platform are the phones, most of which have been on sale for many months.

  • rakesh

    when is n82 launching in india