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'''N-Gage '''chief, Gerard Weiner told Reuters that Nokia was working on an "improved" version of the tepidly selling phone-game deck, which it would unveil in the '''E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo)'''. Its alleged specs were leaked onto the Web. According to the very obscure site ArcadeStation, the machine will have a hefty 90nm CMO OMAP2420 "system-on-a-chip" processor and a power-frugal 2D/3D graphics accelerator with SIMD co-processor PowerVR MBX with VGP. 
== A big rumour ......at least for now ==
For those not well versed in mobile-phone tech, ''GameSpot'' Mobile's Avery Score sniffed this one out. "High CPU clock speeds drain battery life much more than a GPU would," he said. "It seems strange that Nokia would include such a high-clocked CPU when they're adding a much more power-efficient graphics processor. It's plausible, but just surprising." However, Score urged caution by pointing out the obvious about ''ArcadeStation, saying'', "I don't know if that's a reliable source."

Despite rumors it planned to exit the business altogether, the company behind the N-gage gaming phone said it is gearing up for a second round. "We will be making a significant announcement at E3 regarding our next generation," said Gerard Wiener, general manager of Nokia's games business program.

==Next-generation mobile game deck==
Nokia took pains to say that this was just a concept, and not a product under development. On the flip side are standard phone buttons, while on this side a slide out set of gaming controls and a 16x9 screen deliver a stylish gaming experience in a smartphone package.
(Jim Louderback/Ziff Davis Internet News).LOS ANGELES - Instead of keeping it as a separate platform, Nokia on Tuesday rolled out plans to move its N-Gage gaming platform into select smart phones, due in 2006 and beyond. 

The N-Gage gaming platform, including 3D graphics and more, will be available for Nokia phones using the upcoming Series 60 operating system, the company announced at E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo) here. "It's going into a broad range of smart phones," said Robert Sears, community technology manager at Nokia Corp. But not all of them - at this point, the phones will require N-Gage's standard 176x208 screen resolution. Nokia also announced that a redesigned N-Gage will be announced this fall. This "next-generation gaming platform" launch will include devices, content and partners. But the existing QD will not be phased out—the company plans on selling it through 2007 and beyond. The platform will be built around a refreshed Texas Instruments OMAP chip set, delivering what Nokia described as real 3D graphics in a handheld platform. The video demonstration of that performance was impressive, albeit obviously canned. The company showed two working concept smart phones running N-Gage games, along with demos of all of the games. The most interesting concept, however, was onscreen only - a concept phone with a slide-out 16x9 screen for gaming. View our slide show to see the concept phone, along with the working smart phones with N-Gage technology inside..

== Possible Specifications ==
{| class="wikitable"
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! SPECS   
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| || '''OMAP Full Compatibility''' ||
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| || '''Symbian OS 3rd Edition v9.3 (possibly)''' ||
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| || '''90-nm CMOS System-on-a-Chip OMAP2420''' ||
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| || '''330-MHz Central Core with Floating Point Unit ARM1136JS-F ||
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| || '''220-MHz Digital Signal Processor for Audio TMS320C55x ||
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| || '''Video Playback and Image Display Imaging Video Accelerator ||
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| || '''VGA 30-fps Encode/Decode Full-Motion Video ||
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| || '''2D/3D Graphics Accelerator with SIMD Co-Processor PowerVR MBX with VGP ||
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| || '''TBDR (Tile Based Deferred Rendering) 200 MHz clock speed ||
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| || '''640x480 VGA Resolution ||
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| || '''360Mpixels, 2xOverdraw = 720Mpixels,3xOverdraw = 1.08Gpixels ||
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| || '''ITC(tm) - PowerVR Internal True Colour - 32-Bit Blending and Depth Test Precision independent from Buffer Depth ||
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| || '''FSAA4Free(tm) - Supersampling Full-Screen Anti-Aliasing With No Performance Lose ||
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| || '''DOT3 Per-Pixel Lighting Support ||
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| || '''Spherical Harmonics Lighting Support ||
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| || '''Bilinear, Trilinear, Anisotropic Texture Filtering Support ||
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| || '''Vertex Shader 1.1 Programmability with Skinning ||
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| || '''Curved Surface Processing with Fractional Tesselation and Support for ||
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| || '''Differing Levels-of-Detail on Neighboring Patch Edges ||
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| || '''PVR-TC (PowerVR Texture Compression) ||
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| || '''Multi-Texturing ||
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| || '''Fully Programmable 3D T&L (Transform & Lighting) ||
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| || '''Over 2.5M-tri/sec '''||
|}

=='''N-GAGE:NEO'''==
[[Image:Neo-front.jpg||thumb|left|750px|[[w:n-gage:neo|n-gage:neo]],a conecpt]]
[[Image:Neo-back.jpg||thumb|right|750px|]]
[[Image:Neo-type.jpg||thumb|left|750px|]]


==Nokia's concept phone==


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