Admitting Defeat, Nokia To Pull Plug On N

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moconews.net - 10/30/2009

Admitting Defeat, Nokia To Pull Plug On N

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Nokia is shutting down N-Gage, its beleaguered, two-year-old mobile games service. The company will still sell N-Gage games through the end of September 2010, and players will still be able to interact via the N-Gage Arena, but after that the service will go dark. Instead, the company will focus ...

venturebeat.com - 10/29/2009

Nokia will invade U.S. market — will launch new phone with AT&T

— venturebeat.com — AT&T, the major U.S. phone operator, will launch a Nokia Symbian phone with a Qualcomm chip in... the U.S. market, an industry source close to Nokia has told VentureBeat. It’s just the latest in a wide front of attack the giant Finnish ... (more) Nokia will invade U.S. market — will launch new phone ...

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pocket-lint.com - 10/30/2009

NEWS: Nokia and Qualcomm working on new Symbian phone for AT&T

— pocket-lint.com — Finnish phone company trying to up its success in US market Nokia is planning a fresh attack... on the US mobile phone market, teaming up with AT&T; on a new Symbian phone, a new report suggests. The device will be developed ... (more) NEWS: Nokia and Qualcomm working on new Symbian phone ...

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pocket-lint.com - 10/30/2009

NEWS: Nokia to axe N-Gage

— pocket-lint.com — Mobile phone gaming platform will be integrated into the Ovi Store Nokia has revealed that it is... to close the doors on its N-Gage platform next year, in favour of offering all its gaming through its Ovi Store content portal. ... (more) NEWS: Nokia to axe N-Gage

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mocoNews: Admitting Defeat, Nokia To Pull Plug On N-Gage Games Platform

TechBlog: Linkpost | 10.31.2009

Yahoo! Tech Advisors: Nokia N-Gage dies a second time

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Story in progress ... Nokia is shutting down N-Gage. http://bit.ly/1JJEBQ #nokia #gaming #sadface 10/30/2009

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Admitting Defeat, Nokia To Pull Plug On N-Gage Games Platform
mocoNews — Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is shutting down N-Gage, its beleaguered on-deck mobile games service. The company will still sell N-Gage games through the end of September 2010, and players will still be able to interact via the N-Gage Arena, but after that the service will go dark. In the meantime, the company will focus on funneling gamers through to its Ovi Store. More to come. Related ...

Linkpost | 10.31.2009
TechBlog — ... and a rival to the iPhone in these reviews. • Handset Makers Set to Cash In on the Holidays - New products and plenty of supply could equal good times. • Google: We're not making Android hardware - Forget those rumors that Google will do its own phone. • How Google Voice Is Growing - The invitation-only service now has more than a million users. • Doom Classic game released for iPhone - Be still my heart! The original game ported to the iPhone. • Admitting Defeat, Nokia To Pull Plug On N-Gage Games Platform • Mozilla releases first beta ...

Nokia N-Gage dies a second time
Yahoo! Tech Advisors — ... it quits once again on the N-Gage. The service will continue to operate and games will be purchasable until September 2010, after which the entire operation will shut down (including any multiplayer game features). But hey, at least the phones will still work. Why didn't N-Gage fly again? Aside from the fact that Nokia continues to be an also-ran brand in much of the world where gaming is of interest, the new N-Gage had two big strikes working against it. First, per mocoNews.net, developers hated it , and you don't get far with a video game platform unless you can get people ...

Nokia Exec Says Transformation Could Include Handset Business Sale
mocoNews — ... ) has chosen to shut down a couple of its divisions, Ovi Share, its photo-sharing web site, and N-Gage, its gaming business. Going forward, most of its emphasis is on the Ovi store, which distributes applications much like Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market, however, it ...