Nokia is famous for their excellent phone models, but now they're expanding their small games section. They have announced a new phone entitled the N-Gage.

At the company's annual confrence in Munich, Germany, they announced a phone that they state not only offers the usual phone features, but "quality" games. Multiplayer will be an option with Bluetooth, and also wide-area mobile networks.

The games will be available on memory cards, and Nokia states it wants to be a game publisher. Sega apparently is already on board but no games have been announced.

No technical details were announced, but they did show off the system. It's design is similar to that of the GBA, with a LCD screen in the middle and a D-pad and action buttons.

Nokia hope to launch the phone at around Febraury 2003, presumably in America for then.