★ Featured Exhibit ★
Catalog record
22

Nokia N-Gage

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Nokia N-Gage
22
Accession no.
22
Regret level
A game console you answered like a taco and reloaded like a smoke detector.
Collection color
Red

★ Curator’s Notes ★

Nokia’s 2003 phone-console hybrid asked players to remove its back cover and battery just to change a game. Calls placed the speaker and microphone on the thin edge, producing the celebrated “sidetalking” pose. The 2004 QD fixed both ideas, which is an unusually efficient product review.

Sources: GameSpot’s 2004 report on the redesigned QD; The Register’s original N-Gage review.

Image: Evan-Amos / Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

Nokia’s 2003 phone-console hybrid asked players to remove its back cover and battery just to change a game. Calls placed the speaker and microphone on the thin edge, producing the celebrated “sidetalking” pose. The 2004 QD fixed both ideas, which is an unusually efficient product review.