Nokia and Jay-Z have worked hand in hand on this phone.
We all know Nokia and almost all of us know Jay-Z. The First, one of the most important mobile phone companies in the world. The second, rapper, product, businessman and even actor. The whole terrain.
Did you know that Nokia and Jay-Z worked together back then to bring a mobile device to market? Let’s remember the story thanks to GSMArena.
This was the Nokia phone in collaboration with Jay-Z
Nokia N Gage. A phone that was ahead of its time and unfortunately didn’t have the success it deserved. Because today mobile phones are perfect devices to enjoy vídeo games and even though Nokia tried then… it didn’t succeed.
Well, Nokia’s arrangement of “strange” phones with keyboards didn’t just affect this model. It was the Nokia 3300 of 2003, which – like the N-Gage – had a split QWERTY keyboard that also included a D-Pad.
This device had a version called the 3300b with two versions for Europe and Asia, although unfortunately neither was a big hit all this despite Nokia trying in every way.
He even got a collaboration with the famous rapper Jay-Z to release a version called The Black Phone (the Black Album was Jay-Z’s album that came in the device) and it became sold for around $300. almost nothing for the time.
Apart from this collaboration, many users do not remember this device. The point is that the 3300 ran Symbian, so it was still kind of an N-Gage. And if the N-Gage fails… why shouldn’t the 3300 fail too?
For all these reasons, what if Nokia re-launched the N-Gage today? Nowadays almost everyone has a móvil inteligente, so start an exclusive model to enjoy vídeo games It’s not as crazy to think as it was almost 20 years ago..
Surely today the N-Gage won’t be such a flop as it was we doubt that Nokia will repeat the experiment, despite its recent commitment to relaunch some of the most iconic phones. I hope we are lucky and see him again.