BFD: Ngage

The Ngage is a mobile telephone and hand held game based system, Introduced in the year 2003, was intended to lure gamers away from the “Game boy Advance”including cellphone functionality.

Considered from a video game point of view it was known for its screen orientation, a vertical one as opposed to the usual horizontal one. Ngage managed to garner some well known franchises such as Tomb Raider, Sonic, Rayman, Red Fraction and Elder Scroll’s.

The Ngage had a few benefits like the RAM compacted to 60xxx series devices. MP3 decoding with a dedicated hardware chip, with a stereophone output and mini headphone jack plug.

Type: Handheld game console (1st gen N-Gage), mobile gaming service (2nd gen N-Gage)

Generation : sixth generation era (1st gen N-Gage),
seventh generation era (2nd gen N-Gage)

Units sold: 3 million (as of July 30, 2007; 1st gen N-Gage)

Media: MMC (1st gen N-Gage),
Download (2nd gen N-Gage)

CPU: ARM9E

Storage capacity: MMC, 3.4 MB internal memory (1st gen N-Gage)

Connectivity: HSCSD, GPRS, Bluetooth (1st gen N-Gage)

Online services: N-Gage Arena

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