Nokia Is Testing Next Generation Gaming Platform

Today Nokia and Elisa announced that they are testing a next generation gaming platform for Nokia’s gaming phone, the N-Gage.
The pilot test of the N-Gage begins in February 2007 and will continue through mid 2007.

“The core of the Nokia games strategy is to make it easy for people to find, buy and play great quality mobile games and we’re excited to expand our relationship with Elisa to help make this possible,” said Jaakko Kaidesoja, Director, Games, Multimedia, Nokia. “This pilot will help us further refine the N-Gage experience for our commercial launch later this
year.”

“Our goal is to give our customers a new and unique experience they cannot get anywhere else,” said Mikko Mattinen, Head of Department, Consumer Customers Products, Content services, Elisa Corporation.

“People who enjoy mobile games are often the same customers who enjoy experimenting with new mobile services and content. Elisa can provide a wide range of content and services to meet their needs.”

Elisa will help people find find, buy, play and share rich and immersive games on a range of Nokia devices. They plan to launch a full service offering through its own portals in addition to the N-Gage application installed on Nokia devices.

For more information about Elisa, please visit their website.