Game Player Phone. PDA Phone. WHat happened to the simple phone?

This NY Times article points to the new range of N-Gage phones from Nokia

Quote: Nokia is hoping to change that landscape with N-Gage, its new mobile phone that offers graphically rich, three-dimensional, full-color video games stored on cards. The handset, with its built-in wireless technology, allows two players to compete in the same room, while software built into each game allows players across the world from each other to compete by way of a special Web site. The unit is also an MP3 player, capable of storing songs downloaded from a PC onto a memory card, and an FM radio.

When those cool gizmo digital watches were release in the late 70s, it seemed like that is what people in the future would want (calculator watch, anybody?). Look at your wrists today, how many of you wear those watches? Will the phones have the same fate? Now I'm not suggesting N-Gage is doomed. In fact I think it is a cool gadget, but sell it as a game, don't include the phone in it.

Posted by Navneet at October 20, 2003 04:51 PM | TrackBack | Comments disabled due to spam