Just as AAN posted an editorial discussing N-Gage being embedded into phones, Nokia announced on its official N-Gage blog that it has begun shipping the very first phones with N-Gage pre-installed. This means everyone who buys these phones will see the N-Gage icon on their menu without having to install anything.
Read on in the full article.
There's another interesting angle to this news story which I haven't had confirmed yet: if they're now including N-Gage in the firmware that ships with these phones, they may well start including it in the firmware you get when you update the phone.
That means that N-Gage would start reaching people who regularly update their compatible phone's firmware, and also people who take their phone to a repair shop (firmware updates are usually done on all phones that are repaired). That too will expand N-Gage's userbase.
Could someone with an N81 try updating their firmware to see if it includes the N-Gage app? The new firmware may not be released to the public yet so don't update your firmware if there's no new version available, but if there is a brand new version can you let us know what happens when you install it?
Try to back up your phone's memory on your PC before doing the firmware update, because that's currently the only way to preserve your N-Gage saved games. The memory card backup option does NOT preserve saved games for some reason.
Oh, and thanks once again to ccraig for pointing out this story!
Sims 2 petz just went live for download its 8GBP
i hope it's worth the cost and the wait
Happy gaming
ccraig, you realise I'll have to do a news story about that now?
That's three headline items you've let us know about! 😊
I'm just trying to keep you busy i know how much you like the work ;-D
I've been waiting ages for Sims 2 Pets, and Dogz and Creebies, I like these virtual pet games. Just playing with the demo now, it looks very cool, the animation is good so far.
The demo's a bit weird though, if you try to alter any settings at the beginning it immediately takes you to the "purchase now" screen, you have to press exit to get back to the demo.
I noticed that about trying to change setting's makes the activation/purchase screen pop up.
I must admit i'm impressed so far i don't usually like these kinda games plus we get a decent demo of the game not a stupid 30 seconds like Blockbreaker lol.
I must admit i think it's worth the 8GBP and i'm getting it once demo runs out
Any idea when demo End's ?
I just thought of something i wonder if all the devices what have been shipped have the app with the 10,000 NGP bug ,If yes if the people get to 10k who have no idea about software installation or formating and don't use n-gage forum they'll end up with a useless N-gage app with no idea of the problem or out to fix it
No idea so far. I have to go to bed though, so will probably buy the full game tomorrow. I'm writing the review of this, so I'd better get started playing it.
On the 10,000 points bug, I don't think most people will get anywhere near that very quickly, you'd have to buy ten games and get all of the pickups. By the time most people do get 10,000 points there will probably be a fixed version of the app, if they haven't fixed it already on these phones.
There's also a chance of course that this embedded version has the bug fixed, in which case we can probably expect a new version of the N-Gage app as a download soon.
That's what made me think about it b/c they would'nt of embedded the App what we all have i don't think b/c there was too many known issues ,if they embedded a updated app we should all expect a update soon