N-Gage Feedback Forum launches, tell Nokia exactly what you want fixed on N-Gage

[Tzer2]

Nokia's opened a new site called N-Gage Feedback Forum, which lets you submit ideas and feedback, and vote on other people's submissions too, all in a Digg-style interface. It's hosted by the consumer feedback company UserVoice, and it should be very interesting as long as Nokia does actually respond to the points raised. The top suggestion right now concerns the continuing lack of N93/N73 support...

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[Tzer2]

Be very VERY careful how you use your votes. You only get 10, and then they're gone until ideas you've voted for are marked as being in the planning stage by the site admins.

You can post as many comments as you want though, it's only the votes you have to be careful about.

[ccraig]

great site, you should think of a idea then we can discuss in your forum or in article on home page
then go over and submit finalized idea and get everyone to vote it off here lol
people power work's as long as people all speak up and have same vision

[sandy_1988]

I really hope these issues get attended. Let's see.

[Enfors]

I really appreciate the fact that Nokia has taken the time to do this. It's a win-win situation; Nokia learns exactly what the customers want, and the customers get a better product in the end.

[Tzer2]

I really hope these issues get attended. Let's see.

That's what the site depends on, if Nokia responds to these then it will be an enormous success, but if Nokia never responds (or if they respond with waffle) it will feel like a total waste of time.

It sometimes seems like the PR people do want to give direct answers but they're forbidden from doing so by their bosses. Hopefully this site will get their bosses to allow more direct responses and keep people informed of what's going on.

If this works, similar sites could perhaps be set up for other parts of Nokia like the S60 platform or the Nokia Maps service. It certainly seems to be a very good idea.

[bchliu]

Let it go people.. the N73 is DEAD.. give it up. N93 should get more support (given the amount of technology is still there).

[Tzer2]

Let it go people.. the N73 is DEAD.. give it up.

The issue isn't that people just want the N73 to be supported, it's that Nokia specifically TOLD them it would be supported, and included the N73 very prominently in the N-Gage promotional film last year. If a company breaks a promise like that then people have a right to feel annoyed.

Hehehehehehe my idea is the best one!!!!!!

Need games using the 3D CHIPPPPPPPPP!!!!

And for the rest of you!!!! Check youtube.... you can play Ngage games in almost any Nokia 3rd edition!!!

i think it's stupid of nokia to hold back the support of the other s60v3 phones!
i have an e65 and all the games run good on my phone!
it was so easy for us hackers to make it work on the other phones, there is only one txt file and a sis file missing in the installer to PREVENT it from working on all the other s60v3 phones!

[Tzer2]

it was so easy for us hackers to make it work on the other phones, there is only one txt file and a sis file missing in the installer to PREVENT it from working on all the other s60v3 phones!

...and it works 100% perfectly on every phone using this hack?

Because even the officially supported phones don't work 100% properly with N-Gage right now.

It would be easy for Nokia to open up N-Gage to every S60v3 model, the problem would be in guaranteeing that it would work.

Even with the official models there seem to be a lot of error messages and bugs appearing for a lot of people, so imagine how many they'd get if they added a dozen more models to the five already supported.

I do think they need to add them to S60v3, but I don't think they're deliberately "holding it back". Adding new phones to the platform bit by bit is the least worst option.

Yesssss just works like the rest of the nokia N series phones...

Check on youtube: Ngage nokia, and you would see work in Nokia 5700, nokia 6120, nokia e70, nokia n80 even this one... and sooooooo many more...

[Tzer2]

Yesssss just works like the rest of the nokia N series phones...

...but that's my point, N-Gage DOESN'T work fully even on the officially supported
phones.

Nokia are having to work flat out to nail all the bugs that keep cropping up just with the five they support. If they suddenly had to support 20 phones that job could get a lot harder.

It should get easier in the future as phones are built with N-Gage in mind, but they haven't been released yet. The current S60v3 models were all designed before N-Gage launched.

Check on youtube

I've seen the videos, but they don't show how well the games run over a longer period of time.

[Tetlee]

I think this is a fantastic idea, right down to the limited votes meaning people think carefully on their priorities rather than just voting for everything which would likely happen otherwise.

So far I've placed 3 votes on the statement from Nokia regarding the delayed N73/N93 support, hopefully we'll get to hear something as it's been far to long without any statement.

[Tzer2]

I think this is a fantastic idea, right down to the limited votes meaning people think carefully on their priorities rather than just voting for everything which would likely happen otherwise.

It is a great way of doing things, the owners of this service have clearly spent a lot of time thinking it through.

Even if someone does support a load of daft suggestions, they'll run out of votes pretty quickly and never get them back because daft suggestions will never be implemented.