N-Gage games catalog exceeds bounds

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At first I thought it was just me. But all week, trying to view the N-Gage 'All games' catalog in the on-device client has resulted in an error message 'Out of internal memory. Close some applications and try again (Error -4)'. Not terribly helpful, especially on an (e.g.) N96 with 80MB of free RAM and now verified on numerous other devices. What's clearly happened is that adding the latest game to the online catalog has broken some internal limit within the client ("How many games shall we allow for in our array? Pick a number..."), but it's a crying shame that such an error has been allowed to exist for so long, especially around the launch dates of three new titles.

A quote from (one of) the relevant threads on the N-Gage Arena rather sums general feeling up:

"Letting things break and then trying to keep customers in the dark for long periods of time may not be the best strategy for customer satisfaction."

Indeed. Come on, N-Gage team, please fix your client ASAP.