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Nokia's Next Generation gaming platform, the future of N-Gage

3 replies · 7,583 views · Started 23 October 2006

The Nokia Next Gen gaming platform, successor to the N-Gage gaming smartphone, will launch in the first half of 2007 across a range of Nokia's Symbian S60 devices. What will it be like?

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All the horizontal images that i've seen for n95 till date indicate that it has the joystick on the wrong side. This can be a gaming phone only if its capable of changing the horizontal display direction to the other side.

"All the horizontal images that i've seen for n95 till date indicate that it has the joystick on the wrong side. This can be a gaming phone only if its capable of changing the horizontal display direction to the other side."

That's not a problem, software can easily flip the picture the other way up if required.

That's how the Atari Lynx handheld console worked, it had a flip picture button so you could use the d-pad with whichever hand you preferred:

http://www.fresh99.com/images/vidgamecollection/atari_lynx2.jpg

I just hope that some of these games can use the 800x352 screen of Nokia E90. That would be so nice. Atleast as an option.