And you thought the N-Gage was dead

I figured the li’l system was pretty much dead, but it looks like Nokia has not completely abandoned the N-Gage, or at least the idea of it.

Nokia has launched a new web site to help promote the new age of the N-Gage, though they haven’t quite made it clear whether there will be a new N-Gage product you can hold in your grubby li’l gamer hands or simply a revised network of software and tweaked online services. When the official site liberally uses the somewhat vague terms “offering” and “experience” when referring to their product, you have to be a bit skeptical. (You’ll also need to be a bit forgiving since some of the Flash elements on the site are still a bit buggy.)

I suspect Nokia will release a redesigned gaming phone to improve on the N-Gage’s battery life and look a bit more like everything else out there but give it a distinctly non-N-Gage-y name and push a lot harder to sell software (read: games) and online services.

Here’s hoping for more concrete details at CES.

Site [N-Gage]