According to information unearthed by N-Gage fan site All About N-Gage should you go down the upgrade route (which a lot of people and especially tech-enthusiasts do) then the only way to get all your games on you new phone is to buy them all over again (or perhaps not upgrade).

"Well, it now seems that the new N-Gage platform has its own significant flaw: if you upgrade to a new phone, you will not be able to transfer your games to the new phone - your library is locked to the original handset forever," said the website.

"This is in stark contrast to Nokia's Music Store service, which does let you move your music library to a new phone. Why does Nokia treat a 10 euro album differently to a 10 euro game?" it added.

According to terms and conditions of the N-Gage service the games (or content as Nokia calls them) "shall be... limited to one private installation on one N-Gage compatible Nokia device only." But of course, when was the last time you looked through a EULA?

Of course, it would be far better not to link the games to the phone but to the person who bought them, but that seems a tad difficult for some reason. DRM, eh!

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