Anything special to run Promise of Power?

[Cyrano de Maniac]

I finally snagged a copy of Promise of Power on eBay -- and it's even signed by Kevin!

Before I go lay down good money on an appropriate N-Gage, somewhere on eBay, I had a few technical questions for anyone who may have answers.

First, does playing PoP require cell phone service? That is, does the game require any sort of network server/access? Alternatively, does the N-Gage phone itself require activation on a phone network even if all you want is for it to function as a simple handheld gaming platform?

Second, if I were to look for an N-Gage, is there anything in particular I should be wary of as far condition? Here I'm looking for advice along the lines of "The rear case had a tendency to crack and there are lots of unscrupulous people selling broken ones online.", or anything like that.

Thanks,
Brent

[Jorel]

Recently got one myself. Don't need to have any kind of service to play, just the game and the N-gage. Don't know about defects.