While I was on my way to Kuwait, I had a brief lay-over in Mumbai. With nothing much to do, and being the total Nokia Fanboy that I am, I figured I might as well check out the Nokia Concept Store there. As Aatif already talked about the new store, I wont go into much detail about the place or staff again (except that they still refused to let us take pictures of anything), but I did manage to check out the new N-Gage voucher system they have going on in India.
I basically walked into the store and said “N-Gage!” to the salesman, who took me over to their very small N-Gage section. I asked them about purchasing a voucher and that sort of thing. It’s actually a pretty easy setup they have here. You choose your game, and the denomination you’d like to buy. You can get them for as low as Rs 49 for a day trial, to Rs 229 for the full thing (depending on the price of the game).
I choose to get Prince of Persia on the Red E75 I’m carrying around. I figured it’d be worth the entertainment for my flight to Kuwait. You basically pay them, and get a Receipt with your activation code for your game on it, and use that activation code to go ahead and activate your N-Gage game on your device.
The whole process is pretty seamless. Buying N-gage games couldnt be easier at this point. I’m glad Nokia India has finally realised not everybody in the country has a credit card, and that you can buy it using good old fashioned hard cash hehe.
Just for kicks, here’s what the bill they gave me looked like (click on it to see larger size) :
If they could improve on anything, it’d be offering free wifi in-store so that we can download and activate our games in there. I was on roaming, and downloading and activating a game using GPRS was a really slow and annoying process. Think about it, Nokia !
Other than that, I have to say, Nokia India’s done a great job making this an easy painless process. Just step into a Nokia Store, buy your voucher, walk out.
Its a heck of a lot better than say, a couple years ago when I literally had to plead with Nokia Stores to get N-Gage games over.
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nice.when i bought it, i had to look up the dealer on the net, and the address was very unspecific. so i called him up and he guided me how to get there. then i told him i wanted to refill my oxicash with 300 bucks. i was his first customer. he asked me what i needed it for and i told him about n-gage. he couldnt believe i was paying 300 bucks for a game on my mobile phone, lol. but its a great alternative to credit cards.
nice.when i bought it, i had to look up the dealer on the net, and the address was very unspecific. so i called him up and he guided me how to get there. then i told him i wanted to refill my oxicash with 300 bucks. i was his first customer. he asked me what i needed it for and i told him about n-gage. he couldnt believe i was paying 300 bucks for a game on my mobile phone, lol. but its a great alternative to credit cards.
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