N-Gage launch delayed

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Ed Fear Nov 2 2007, 6:00pm

Nokia says testing has added "a couple of weeks" to deployment.

The new N-Gage platform has been delayed until December, Reuters reports.

The service, which was set to go live this month, has been delayed due to complexities in testing. “N-Gage is coming in December,” said Nokia’s Kari Tuutti. “Software testing is taking a bit more time than we had expected. We are talking about a couple of weeks.”

Although the setback is minor compared to the development period of the service, all eyes are on Nokia to see if the Finnish giant can make its handset-agnostic second stab at the mobile gaming a more successful one, after the limited success of the previous N-Gage and N-Gage QD phone models.

Last week Nokia unveiled its full-track music download store, which like N-Gage is part of the Finnish company's new Ovi content strategy.