Welcome back, Ngage!
So Nokia has just announced 4 new phones (plus the music service) and most important for gamers : the return of the Ngage. Not in the form of a device, but as a platform, where you can try, rent and buy game as well have that whole “xbox-live” like interactions that everyone knows are quite good.
I’m dying to try it out and see how the fellows did this, but I can already say : The ngage UI looks amazingly refreshing. It’s just brand new as I could see in the published videos and makes me wonder that there’s a lot of things going on in the Finnish lands.
Another incredible thing posted by the guys over engadget and gizmodo : The loudest speaker ever on a phone. I know most of people don’t care about this, but for me this is a must. I was pretty disappointed with Iphones because I use the cell as my in car music. Why do you ask? Because here in Brazil is just to easy to place a CD player and get your car smashed just to take it off in the first week. I already faced this twice and even when I buy a cheap CD the thief is not kind, breaks the window, breaks the dashboard and steal even buttons for red lights etc.
So I’m really really looking forward to put my hands on the N81 as it seems to have not only the Ngage games revisited as a platform, a non-side talking formfactor (nifty buttons on the top, I asked that since the first first cellphone with game I saw in my life) a incredible speaker and of course a slim (for s60 ok) profile.
The N95 and the Xpress buddies
The american N95 has a really impressive looking now in black, but I really liked the camera cover set up that is now gone. But With 8 gigas plus a better battery I can say if Nokia added to that a nice firmware with more fixes than the 12.x version this is a incredible phone as well. For sure the top of chain in nowadays phones (europe / americas)
The Xpress candybars are also A LOT better looking in black, real killer change this one, and look to have a real nice slider thing on. Need to test this. Of course they are less powerful than the other 2 but they have also a smaller price tag for those interested in good music + nice battery life (14 and almost 24) for the new dudes.
It’s a shame that it takes so long to have them here in Brazil, or I would do a full review with pleasure of those guys.
Check out the galleries from Gizmodo : N81, N95, The Xpress
I will talk about Nokia Music store later, when I at least digg it a little bit more, but for now one thing is clear : you can for sure buy your music while on the bus, and not worry about needing to buy on the pc or synchronize with your device. This is the real deal for mobile. This is how it should be done. Just hope the public receives it well.
After all : this is a nice step by Nokia, and Gizmodo talks about a pane view, must be an alternative to the other multimedia screen, and it shows clearly that Nokia is experimenting to evolve the UI. There’s no doubt that no manufacture will stay quiet of comfortable now in this matter. Iphone was just a thruster, but I think Samsung, nokia and the others were already aware that UI needs to advance, and doing that for a whole company is a lot more complicated than doing just for 1 phone like apple did.
