Nokia Ships Over 1 Million N-Gage Handhelds

Nokia announced today that shipments of its N-Gage game/phone hybrid handheld have reached a million units worldwide, citing stronger demand for the new N-Gage QD hardware as driving improved sales. While the figure represents shipments rather than actual consumer sales, a company spokesperson pointed out that channel inventories are currently quite low, so the installed base isn't far behind the million mark. Ilkka Raiskinen, Nokia's Senior Vice President of Games, also remarked on signing "over 100,000 N-Gage Arena members." N-Gage Arena allows players to join a worldwide mobile-gamer community, and compete on leaderboards and head-to-head play across the globe.