Nokia N85 to come bundled with Zeemote in Germany
By Dusan Belic on Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at 5:44 AM PST In Gaming, Nokia, Partnerships
We’ve already talked about Nokia’s plans to partner with Zeemote in Germany. Now we see the first fruits of the joint plan, as the recently announced Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N85 will be sold bundled with Zeemote’s thumbstick controller – JS1. Under the deal, aside from including the controller in the box, the N85 will also come with 15 Zeemote-friendly demo games pre-installed.
As a side note, during this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona I spent some time playing with the Zeemote JS1 and I must say I love it. Some helicopter flying shooter game was demoed and it felt so natural to fly around with Zeemote, rather than using a D-pad.
[Via: MobileGamesBlog]
There was a lot of interest surrounding the Zeemote at the BlackBerry Developer Conference. I hope bundled deals like this convinces software developers to actually make games that use it.