A handheld more powerfull than PSP???

[Jupiter_x]

Introducing Gizmondo:

http://www.gizmondo.com/img/banners/staticBanner_myGiz.jpg

Gizmondo Technical specifications

* CPU: 400Mhz Samsung ARM9 processor (Samsung S3C2440)
* GPU: Nvidia GoForce 3D 4500 (128-bit bus Graphics Accelerator)
* 2.8" TFT color screen (resolution TBD)
* GSM tri-band for world-wide celluar phone network
* GPRS (General Packet Radio System, for mobile data networks)
* Eight-way D-Pad
* Left and right triggers
* Four face buttons
* Bluetooth class 2 wireless network for multiplayer gaming
* MMC/SD Flash Memory Card input
* built-in digital camera
* built-in GPS (Global Positioning System)
* SpeakerM
* Temperature range 0C to 55C
* Predictive text input
* WAP 2.0
* SMS (Short Message Service for send/receive text messages)
* MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service, for send/receive of text messages, images, audio, and/or video clips.)
* MP3 Music playback
* MIDI/WAV formats
* MPEG 4 video playback
* Mini-USB client (for connecting device to a PC or adding accessories)
* Removable SIM card
* Removable battery
* Polyphonic ring tones
* Stereo headset socket for MP3 and games
* Flight mode


Operating System Specification

* Windows CE .Net 5.0
* Windows Media Player 9
* Gizmondo Launch/Menu Application
* GPS tracking application
* GPS mapping and navigation application
* Digital camera photo application
* Messaging application
* 3D Games engines
* X-Forge 3D engine (provided by Fathammer)
* OpenGL-ESM (3D Graphics API)
* D3D-Mobile (DirectX Mobile)
* M3G (Mobile 3D API)



Here are the links:
http://gizmondoarena.com/gizmondo/specification.php (http://gizmondoarena.com/gizmondo/specification.php)

Gizmondo.com (http://www.gizmondo.com/StorePublic/Store.aspx)

[Gadfly2317]

What's in the software library so far? Any standout titles?

Heard anything about the ergonomics, battery life, all those goodies?

I'm not asking because I'm interested in another handheld, just curious. Barely.

[Jupiter_x]

What's in the software library so far? Any standout titles?

Heard anything about the ergonomics, battery life, all those goodies?

I'm not asking because I'm interested in another handheld, just curious. Barely.


First off I hate where they placed the "Report Bad Post" link, I always click on it thinking it is the "Reply" link!

Yeah! I don't really know, I have just seen the ads floating around the magazines and internet!
The one thing I don't like about it is that the screen is not as big as the PSPs and it looks an awful lot like an N-gage!

[Horngreen]

I think it is pricey even compared to the PSP.

[shogun]

Between the combined market saturation of GBA, DS and PSP, there's a 99.9% chance this thing is gonna flop worse than NGAGE. I'm kinda curious as to what it can do game-wise, but that's more so I have an idea of what it could have been rather than what it will be.

[Jupiter_x]

Between the combined market saturation of GBA, DS and PSP, there's a 99.9% chance this thing is gonna flop worse than NGAGE. I'm kinda curious as to what it can do game-wise, but that's more so I have an idea of what it could have been rather than what it will be.

As far as what it can do gamewise, I think it would be safe to say that it could keep up with Gamecube! It is said to have a 128 meg graphics eccelerator, wasn't Xbox' GPU only 64 meg? Gamecube is around 480 mhz in terms of Processor speed, this little bugger has a whopping 400MHz....whoa!

I don't think the support will be there....Flop....a powerful flop that is!

[theWacoKid]

As far as what it can do gamewise, I think it would be safe to say that it could keep up with Gamecube! It is said to have a 128 meg graphics eccelerator, wasn't Xbox' GPU only 64 meg? Gamecube is around 480 mhz in terms of Processor speed, this little bugger has a whopping 400MHz....whoa!

I don't think the support will be there....Flop....a powerful flop that is!

Forget about it, if you've seen any of the videos for their games, they're crap and you wouldn't even give this unit a second look. Unless of course, you actually think mowing a lawn is mondo cool.

http://www.gizmondo.com/games/item.asp?start=f&end=q&id=105

It can't keep up with a gamecube or much of anything. The psp runs rings around it and the DS does as well. This nonsense, in defining bits as power with gpus is just that, nonsense. By that token, the ps2 is the most powerful console far and away since the data bus on the GS is 1024bits.

[Jupiter_x]

By that token, the ps2 is the most powerful console far and away since the data bus on the GS is 1024bits.

Indeed! in those terms I must agree with you. PS2 is the only 128 bit machine in this generation!

Xbox= 32 bit
GameCube= 64 bit
PS2= 128 bit