01-14-2005, 09:00 PM
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CNET Unwraps the Gizmondo
"Gizmondo has taken the wraps off an eponymous portable gaming device that's a Swiss Army Knife among handheld consoles. In addition to being an on-the-go gaming platform, the Gizmondo delivers wireless text messaging and e-mail, GPS capabilities, a digital camera, and a portable video player."
The gadget folk at CNET had a look at the Gizmondo during CES. Interestingly, the one they played around with didn't have those obscure wavy and dotty buttons that was seen in this post. Its hardware outfit is some serious swag, and is sure to provide some decent competition against the PSP and Nintendo DS. Have a read of the CNET column and let us know what you think. Are any of you considering the purchase? ;-)
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01-14-2005, 09:10 PM
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Mystic
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I liked the buttons. Most have XYAB or color buttons. Rather than copy, use the symbols for the four elements (earth wind fire water). It looks cool!
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01-14-2005, 09:20 PM
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Ponderer
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It seems to be a great device, except for the 3.5 hours battery life. :cry:
I also think that these buttons look a lot better than the wavy ones. 
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01-14-2005, 09:42 PM
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Sage
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I saw it at the Nvidia booth at the show and it looked pretty cool. But with the Nintendo DS out and the PSP to be released shortly, I'm gonna hold off and see how things shake out.
Definitely an impressive little machine, though.
(And incidentally, the one at the Nvidia booth did have the wavy buttons)
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01-14-2005, 09:43 PM
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I love new technoogy, and love the efforts of the entrepreneur. I've been in the game biz for 13 years and worked to release a platform. Here is the bottom line. . .
If EA doesn't support it. It's dead before it hits the streets.
Pitty, really.
The only chance it has beyond that is if it is picked up by a large niche group and has a strong underground for support. That's what kept platforms like the Amiga alive for so many years after it's effective edge wore off.
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01-14-2005, 09:44 PM
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Neophyte
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Storage
Put a 20-40 GB hard drive in there an it would look a lot better. I don't think I'll be getting a convergent device like this unless it has more storage than what's out there today. When flash memory gets bigger than 20 GB or hard drives get cheaper and smaller, then we'll see some really useful devices.
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01-14-2005, 09:48 PM
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O.K., so I will now remove my foot from my mouth. . .
Seems EA DOES have a deal.
O.K. then.
Pretty cool.
The battery life is a bit of a sticking point though, I must aggree with that.
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01-14-2005, 10:00 PM
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Intellectual
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I don't like it BUT I expect it to push near future PDA to have more multimedia capabilities (unless they come from HP, that live in their own world)
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01-14-2005, 10:28 PM
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Mystic
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Re: Storage
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Originally Posted by personman
Put a 20-40 GB hard drive in there an it would look a lot better. I don't think I'll be getting a convergent device like this unless it has more storage than what's out there today. When flash memory gets bigger than 20 GB or hard drives get cheaper and smaller, then we'll see some really useful devices.
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May I drag out my old pocketpc media player mock-up again? Funny, it looks suspiciously similar to this device :lol:
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01-14-2005, 10:36 PM
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Mystic
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With the price of $400 this is going to become a niche market device. There is no way they can compete with Nintendo and Sony when the Gizmodo is more then twice the price.
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