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Product
Parade
November
6, 2002
Nokia's N-Gage mobile game deck device runs on Symbian
OS
MUNICH, GERMANY AND FINLAND -- Nokia has announced that
it will bring mobility to the games industry by offering
console quality games for its new mobile game deck device
category. It will expand the gaming experience by bringing
a wireless multiplay platform to the market for local
and remote gaming.
As
an initial step in the converging trends in enabling
technologies and devices, Nokia will introduce the first
game optimized device in its mobile game deck category,
the Nokia N-Gage mobile game deck device, together with
branded game titles from top games publishers and developers
in February 2003. The Nokia N-Gage mobile game deck
will run on the Nokia Series 60 platform and Symbian
OS.
Anssi
Vanjoki, executive vice president, Nokia Mobile Phones,
said: "Games are an exciting way to communicate
and connect with a larger community of like-minded people.
Rich mobile games, combined with connected near distance
multiplayer gaming over Bluetooth and wide area gaming
using cellular networks, opens the door for totally
new gaming concepts. Mobility will add a whole new dimension
to innovative and creative games concepts and will provide
opportunities for the games and telecom industry alike."
Based
on an established business model in the games industry,
Nokia will take rich mobile games to a new level by
utilizing the full potential of mobility. As mobile
network capacity increases over time, mobile gaming
interactivity will also reach new levels together with
game optimized mobile devices that offer consumers a
truly rich, interactive mobile gaming experience.
Rich
mobile gaming represents an appealing business opportunity
for game publishers and operators. Nokia will be working
with top games' publishers and developers to provide
the most appealing games catalog for consumers. The
rich games will be distributed on memory cards. Nokia
will also act as a game publisher. Operators will gain
new revenue streams through increased data use and outbox
memory game cards will complement operators' current
game business by bringing rich quality games to game
optimized mobile devices.
Contact:
Nokia Mobile Phones
Tel: +358-7180-08000
Email: nokia.mobile.phones@nokia.com
Web: www.nokia.com
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