With the announcement that Nokia are closing the N-Gage service, Ewan has been looking back at the troubled gaming strategy from Finland, from its launch in 2003 to in an . We'll pass on any messages of condolence to Finland

As expected, the global phone market has continued to contract, year on year, in the current economic climate, , though Q3 did show a shorter term rise. There's no breakdown in smartphone numbers as yet, though these are due any

In a low key announcement, via the , comes the news that Nokia plans to shutter its N-Gage gaming service. Nokia say they will 'no longer publish new games for the N-Gage platform'; instead games will be provided via its

With the Nokia N97 v20 firmware now out for a couple of days and fixing the underlying Sync system issues, I'd been on refresh on Nokia's Mac software site every few hours. It seems that the N97 has now been