13th October 2003, 3:59 PM
Quote: 3-5 hour battery life (a length that, to OB1's surprise, is causing a lot of complaings in most all the reviews of the thing I've read)
3-6 hours, actually. The battery is rechargeable and you can buy an extra battery pack for $30, so it's not that big of a deal. $30 is a bit steep for an extra battery pack, but it sure beats having to buy AA batteries. People are complaining about it because the N-Gage is just so easy to hate. The system is also a phone, however, so that battery life is pretty insane for a cell.
The guys at Nokia are completely clueless. If you watch any of ign's video interviews with the people behind the N-Gage you'll see that those guys are completely clueless when it comes to video games. Having to take out the battery to play games, a thin verticle screen, an atrocious button layout, and crappy games really shows how incompetent they are. And the system isn't even a good cell phone! You have to hold it by the side in order to talk and it's so dumb that they had to come up with a dumb name for it: "side-talking".