The things I hate about N-Gage gaming on the Nokia N95
Posted by Christian Titze in App-Review, N-Gage, N-Series, N81, N95, Nokia, WOM-World
The possibility of playing high-quality games on a Nokia multimedia-computer is just great. With the N-Gage application you can play everywhere - on the go, in the bus, in the train or if you’re waiting somewhere for something. With a multimedia-computer by your side you won’t get bored. Unfortunately not all the devices which support N-Gage are real gaming-devices. They aren’t designed for N-Gage like the N81, but they support it.
The Nokia N95 is such a candidate which isn’t designed for N-Gage gaming. In this post I’ll compare it to the real “gaming-king” Nokia N81.
Problem 1: The special gaming-keys
The N-Gage application requires two additional keys for proper gaming. In the Nokia N95 the multimedia-keypad is used for this two keys. They are the stop- and the play/pause-key. Unfortunately the N95’s multimedia-keypad is extremely flat and the keys on it have almost no feedback. Thus it is very hard to use them fast in a game.
Since the N81 is a device designed for gaming it has very good gaming-keys. The keys have a very good feedback and they aren’t too small. You can also press them very fast which is important in many games.
Problem 2: The D-pad
Another problem of the N95 is its D-pad and the surrounding keys. The D-pad is very small and the surrounding menu- and multimedia-key are very big. Thus you will hit those two keys very often while navigating through the game with the small D-pad. This is very annoying, because everytime you hit the wrong button the main-menu or the multimedia-menu will pop up and you have to close it and go back to the game via the taskmanager.
The N81 doesn’t have this problem, the D-pad is very big and it is higher than the rest of the N81’s front-cover, so you won’t have problems using it for games.
Verdict
As you can see there are some problems with N-Gage gaming on devices which aren’t specialised on gaming. This problems are very annoying, especially if you hit the wrong key and you enter a menu while playing a game. Of course this problem doesn’t sound too annoying, but it happens very often and so it definitely is annoying.
Have you also experienced problems while playing N-Gage on your device? If so, leave a comment below!






i totally agree christian. i have been facing the same problem. but this is half the story. take into consideration the plight of the candybar users. hope to see more on n-gage
hey mutherfucker!have a fucking good day but…the N95 is just for gaming and movies:) so….go fuck your self ok?:) i know this because my futher it’s working at NOKIA as engeenier so know a lots about this phone:) so go fuck your self in your mutherfucker ass ok?:) happy easter gay-zol
sry and for web:) but in special is for movies and gaming couse have many codecs:)…:) go fuck your self:)
the d-pad it’s made just for navigate in the menu:) yod don;t need to play with them if you don’t want:) so i don’t understand what’s wrong with this phone:) like how nokia says:what computers have become:) it suport verry good N-GAGE
nice games for it:)but…i don;t understand you:) don’t make this blog of shit until you don’t know much more about this phone:) go eat your futher bals:X have a nice day!
mata is just lol
he or she doesnt know about nokia
his father fuck his mother in nokia n doesnt know anything regarding as engineer
Fuck Ur Mother Bloody
low-lives !