Teh Fake N-Gage

[Jim Miles]

sigh. another let's bash baked beans cos they ain't spagetthi hoops with sausages thread.

Funniest post of today

[Alex W.]

Funniest post of today

Agreed. If it says "baked beans with sausages" on the tin, the manufacturer hypes the delicious beaniness and sausaginess of it, and the sheer tangy tomatoeness of it, and...

excuse me, I have to find a shop.

[Juria]

Yeah at least you dont have to remove the battery when you change game with Leeds.

Er......read into that what you will :/

When you change game with Leeds, you need to turn the power grid off, so the football match stops, it's almost the same thing

[super_quincy]

Hah!! that made me laugh out loud!

Yes I`ve played an N-gage, I`ll never get that time back

[Juria]

Nope, you have to remove the battery as well, or the card won't slide out.

Seems like a decent first stab, but has a huge way to go, especially with regards to Japanese developer support. Nokia's recent cool patent (see OT) could give its successor a good USP.

Does that mean that HariboKart doesn't know what he's talking about? I be the doesn't really have one he just likes to be in losing arguements about inferior kit The Ngage I think is a bit too ahead of its time.. not really in a clever way, just that the technology isn't there yet. if it's meant to be a phone, then they shouldn't have designed it as a massive chunky bugger, the insides needed for the thing are too big tfor it to be a practical phone. So I agree, I suppose it's a good start, but they should have waited.. or developed it and given it to a company that's established with games.

[Mike1812]

When you change game with Leeds, you need to turn the power grid off, so the football match stops, it's almost the same thing

Turn off all the floodlights and you cant see how crap they are! Brilliant!

[Jim Miles]

Does that mean that HariboKart doesn't know what he's talking about?

To be fair, he didn't explicitly argue against needing to take the battery out to change the game, he just declared someone's opinion invalid, citing a rather odd NGage-Leeds analogy as proof...

[Juria]

Super_Quincy's opinion (which is actually a fact, taking out the battery is a fact) is invalid because it's true?

[Mike1812]

All opinions are invalid here. IMO.

[super_quincy]

I`m not an invalid, I can walk and everything

[Burai]

sigh. another lets bash n-gage cos it aint nintendo thread.

Can we not bash it because it's just generally shit in comparison to anything apart from an Amstrad GX4000?

[Juria]

I`m not an invalid, I can walk and everything

but if you slipped on an n-gage, with its sloped back, you could twist your ankle and become an invalid for a week or two! did you think of that?

[super_quincy]

No I didn`t actually

Now I`m just very very angry that someone`s bad mouthing the GX4000

[Juria]

Is that the cartridge thing that they used to sell in gardening centres?

[super_quincy]

Nah thats a water filter

[Juria]

I remember a few gardening centres I was dragged to as a kid sold a console system and it had a number as the name. It stuck in my mind because gardenning centres are so bloody boring apart from the pet section at the back

[Shimmyhill]

Can we not bash it because it's just generally shit in comparison to anything apart from an Amstrad GX4000?

How dare you Sully the name of Amtrads finest console ....

[sega_kid]

why exactly is a machine that plays games, emus, mp3s, movies, radio and works as a phone shit?

[Alex W.]

why exactly is a machine that plays games, emus, mp3s, movies, radio and works as a phone shit?

Ever hear the expression "jack of all trades and master of none"? Most folk would rather have the master than the jack at that sort of price.

[sega_kid]

i dont get it people, its a decent mp3 player, decent emulator player, decent game console(with good future potential) decent for watching movies on the go, and a ok phone (ok, so it is a bit big, but its not TOO big) so why the hatred?

[Alex W.]

Because it's full of really obvious flaws and folk would rather spend £120 on new games for the machines they have than go and buy ports for a handheld? There's enough of that on GBA as it is.

[danryu]

why exactly is a machine that plays games, emus, mp3s, movies, radio and works as a phone shit?

It plays bad games, it emulates badly, it's got rubbish mp3 capability, it doesn't play very good quality movies plus on a tiny screen, it's massive and ugly and so you look like a prat if you use it like a phone.

[Spacehost]

The best thing about that item is the comments about it:

this is a piece of crap!stop wasting money on worthless crap like this and spend it on something better!

Jonny - Thu Dec 18 2003 02:33:29 Hong Kong Time

Hah! What a crock of shit. Go buy a real handheld console. This piece of shit doesnt even have colour. And look at the games! I'd rather have the cash than one of those.

Myrddraal - Thu Dec 18 2003 15:59:14 Hong Kong Time

What a sad waste of time. Companies such as this one should be eradicated.

Phalanx - Sun Dec 21 2003 09:54:12 Hong Kong Time

WOW, move over PS2, Xbox and GameCube, stop wasting time with high end PC's, this is the future...the M-Gage, check out the graphics and the raw processing power of this machine, and the ORIGINAL look which doesnt look like anything i've ever seen before. this is truly amazing, i think i'll buy 10 of them just incase something happens to one, i can always have a spare.....and then i'll cover myself with blood and swim with sharks because they're man's best friend.

[Alex W.]

Another issue is the impending release of the PSP (only about 12 saving months left!), which might be good (Konami launch title? Castlevania? PES? Who knows!), which requires saving up, and there's a chance that the Nintendo DS will be more than a novelty (more saving). Folk don't just buy a new format on the basis of "Wow, look at all those bullet points!".

[Burai]

why exactly is a machine that plays games, emus, mp3s, movies, radio and works as a phone shit?

Because before-their-time convergence devices are always rubbish jack-of-all-trades that cost too much and do what they do worse than the products they replace?

"Give me my update disc and I'll cease to be shit!"

Together at Last!

[danryu]

Don't forget all in one scanner, fax, phone, printer pc jobbies, they're the absolute worst

[Alex W.]

Fear my proprietary disk format! CDs, but in caddies so you can only use our more expensive disks! Mwahahahah!

[Spacehost]

Fear my proprietary disk format! CDs, but in caddies so you can only use our more expensive disks! Mwahahahah!

It came with empty caddies, and you could buy more, so if they ever got damaged your mint discs could be put in a new one.

Touche!

[Alex W.]

I only ever used it once.

The school had one. It's just an A500 in a different box. Which makes this ad all the more amusing:

[Spacehost]

I only ever used it once.

The school had one. It's just an A500 in a different box. Which makes this ad all the more amusing:

CD drives cost a feckin' bomb back then tho, you most remember...