However, out of all these new things Nokia has announced it seems that the N-Gage game system’s resurrection is the most controversial move from the annalists’ points of view. N-Gage’s history is simple and somehow tragic till the current point, when Nokia has plans to revive it.

N-Gage is a device that has combined the functions of a mobile phone with those of a handheld game system. It has started to sell back on the 7^th of October 2003 and it has been based on the Nokia Series 60 platform. But, eventually the Finnish company’s idea hasn’t proved to be too brilliant. Nokia has in fact tried to create a rival to Nintendo’s video game console Game Boy Advance, and to improve the gaming machine with cell phone functionality. But the project has proved to be unsuccessful; this has happened partly because of the device’s buttons, which were created for a phone and did not fit the gaming demands. So, when the users were trying to play a game the buttons were not answering their demands, and when they were using the device as a phone, its shape appeared to be quite inappropriate for a normal mobile device. 

But, it appears that Nokia is a fighter and it has learned from the previous mistakes. Despite everybody’s current surprise, the company has announced since 2005 the new device and now it has just reminded us that it will be available in a very short-time period. Maybe the Finns have finally correctly adjusted their device. However, the fact that big name publishers will bring their games to the device is likely to transform N-Gage into a hit device.