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Filed under: Games, Software, Nokia

It shouldn’t come as any very big surprise that the handset gaming market isn’t precisely thriving, and with these curious economic times surrounding us, we have all ideas that folks have better things to worry over than what their N-Gage buddies are doing. And so does Nokia. According to Jaakko Kaidesoja, head of Nokia’s gaming operations, he “expects challenging times to continue,” noting that the “overall gaming market is likely not growing.” Predictably, he was fairly bullish on the eventual success of the N-Gage platform and the iPhone, but he did confess that pre-loading the N-Gage software onto mobiles would greatly help adoption (you think?). In related news, EA Mobile’s Peter Parmenter thrashed Nokia by calling N-Gage “not Truly polished yet” and referring to it as a soft launch. It’s okay Nokia — we still have to find something to do on the can, so surely gaming fits in there somewhere.

[Via mocoNews]

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Nokia expects “challenging times” for handset gaming to continue originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Messaging, Multimedia, Software, Nokia, Symbian

If your crew is just too occupied to keep tabs on your every move via Qik, you should probably give Friend View a spin. Fresh out of the Nokia Beta Labs comes this application, which queues up your location and then enables you to socially network with other online buddies in order to plan a meetup, just say hello or engage in acts of stalking. The app has been tested to function on the 5320 XpressMusic, 6110 Navigator, 6210 Navigator, N95, N95 8GB, N82, N96, E71, E90, N80 and E61, though it should do just fine on any device running S60 3rd Edition. Hop on past the break for a riveting demonstration, or tap the read link to get straight to the download.

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Nokia’s Friend View keeps you and your posse well connected originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Games, Software, Nokia

It shouldn’t come as any very big surprise that the handset gaming market isn’t precisely thriving, and with these curious economic times surrounding us, we have all ideas that folks have better things to worry over than what their N-Gage buddies are doing. And so does Nokia. According to Jaakko Kaidesoja, head of Nokia’s gaming operations, he “expects challenging times to continue,” noting that the “overall gaming market is likely not growing.” Predictably, he was fairly bullish on the eventual success of the N-Gage platform and the iPhone, but he did confess that pre-loading the N-Gage software onto mobiles would greatly help adoption (you think?). In related news, EA Mobile’s Peter Parmenter thrashed Nokia by calling N-Gage “not Truly polished yet” and referring to it as a soft launch. It’s okay Nokia — we still have to find something to do on the can, so surely gaming fits in there somewhere.

[Via mocoNews]

Read - Nokia’s take
Read - EA Mobile’s take

Nokia expects “challenging times” for handset gaming to continue originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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