Nokia nixes N-Gage for the second time

on 10/30/2009, filed in Home > CellPhones

If at first you don’t succeed, try again. That’s what Nokia did with the N-Gage brand, moving on from a gaming-centric cellphone all those years ago to a software platform some time back, but to no avail after exhausting either avenue. The Finnish cellphone company has decided to shut down the N-Gage platform from next year onwards, choosing instead to offer its entire gaming selection via the Ovi Store content portal. Would that mean all your hard earned high scores on the server will be wiped out as well?

Nokia: Nokia is a Finnish communications company that was the largest phone vendor (per unit) between 1988 to 2012. The company's history go back to 1871 but the Nokia that we know today (the Nokia corporation) was founded in 1967 by the merger of three Finnish companies. It is then that Nokia worked on networking equipment and was ultimately involved in the launch of the first cellular network in 1981 (Mobira Oy). Nokia because a key developer of GSM, the standard that we all know today. Although Nokia still produces a range of phones that includes entry-level handsets and Symbian smartphones, the company is counting on the Windows Phone OS to regain the share that it once had. The current flagship Windows Phone device from Nokia is the Lumia 920.

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