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The Worst Gadgets of All Time 8

by Evan Shamoon on August 13, 2008 at 12:01 AM



Nokia N-Gage

Peanut butter and jelly, water and soap, guns and ammo: all good combinations. Though the idea of a cell phone/handheld game console combo device isn't far removed from this list, perhaps Nokia should have taken a few more years before releasing the N-Gage in 2003. The company attempted to convert Game Boy Advance users to their product with one major attraction: the ability to speak to people on it and send text messages. While the N-Gage did indeed do both of these things, it did so just barely: it's "taco" shape made it simply embarrassing to hold when making calls in public (try Googling "side talking"), awkward for making calls in private, and virtually impossible for gaming. The buttons were designed for a cell-phone (which made them terrible for the repeated presses required of them) and the game selection was a joke, making this one of the all-time worst.

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