[Tom @ Jul 4th 2007 1:26PM]

Seriously, the N-Gage's still the number one fun-and-usability phone produced so far. While many current phones also offer a smartphone OS and function as a PMP (even if most STILL don't feature standard headphone jacks), not one offers a gaming experience like the N-Gage did. And I don't mean just the original games (of which a few were truly good) but also all the emulators that were available. Sure, games run on other phones too. But since the N-Gage, not one single manufacturer has come up with a phone featuring something as simple to implement hardware wise as a functional 8-way directional pad that's located on the OTHER side of the screen.
Sure, it's size an shape were bad, as was the vertical screen (though that didn't matter for emulators, which usualy allow for screen rotation). But in the end, the N-Gage was inexpensive (got mine for free with the then cheapest contract for 2 years), sturdy, a smartphone, a PMP, a game console and so most of it all it was fun. Something 99.99% of all phones available today are badly lacking.