I guess I forgot to mention it, but a while back I got sent an N-Gage QD and a copy of Sega’s Pocket Kingdom. Fortunately, my box was free of deadly hobo spiders, but neither the game nor the N-Gage (which they insist on calling a “game deck,” much to my dismay) is really anything to write home about. The game is okay, but I guess I don’t know why I would devote my precious commuting time to playing an okay game when I have excellent games to play, like Pokémon. For my GBA. You know, my real handheld console.

I figured that I’d keep the N-Gage around as a phone since I haven’t owned a cell phone since 1999, but while I do still have it, I didn’t bother to get service for it once my free month was up. But now I’ve just been supplied with a work-related Blackberry. So I guess my question is: given that I have a GBA and a Blackberry, is there any reason at all to keep my N-Gage? Is the QD better as a phone than the Blackberry is? I know it’s definitely crappier than the Blackberry when it comes to email, but I guess there’s no reason apart from bag space that I couldn’t use both.