PSP V DS and the others??
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If you have both a PSP and a DS, the battery life on the DS is going to be absolutely phenomenal - because you'll never turn it on.
The DS feels cheap in terms of build quality, the touch screen is a gimmick that is unlikely to do anything for playability and the graphics are very poor (relatively).
It did beat the PSP to market, but I suspect the technical people at Nonetendo will be kicking their marketing gurus.
The PSP is a very good movie player, OK MP3 player and photo viewer too. The only real bummer is its use of Sony Memory Stick - a typically Sony piece of proprietary nonesense. With a CF slot (or better still - a 40Gb HDD instead of the UMD nonesense), memory would be much cheaper and more readily available in much larger capacities. Ho hum.
Put the DS and the PSP next to each other and the DS is the one that's over priced.
Then again, I "only" paid 100 quid for my PSP in Japan...
Quality gadget. Hands down winner in this bunch. The PSINext forums have plenty of useful info on all sorts of things PSP.
The DS feels cheap in terms of build quality, the touch screen is a gimmick that is unlikely to do anything for playability and the graphics are very poor (relatively).
It did beat the PSP to market, but I suspect the technical people at Nonetendo will be kicking their marketing gurus.
The PSP is a very good movie player, OK MP3 player and photo viewer too. The only real bummer is its use of Sony Memory Stick - a typically Sony piece of proprietary nonesense. With a CF slot (or better still - a 40Gb HDD instead of the UMD nonesense), memory would be much cheaper and more readily available in much larger capacities. Ho hum.
Put the DS and the PSP next to each other and the DS is the one that's over priced.
Then again, I "only" paid 100 quid for my PSP in Japan...
Quality gadget. Hands down winner in this bunch. The PSINext forums have plenty of useful info on all sorts of things PSP.
Well, I think I have partial apology to make to jimbro1000
I borrowed a Gizmondo from work on Friday and my 10-year old son has been test-driving it all weekend.
First off, battery life really is abysmal. It left the office fully charged and by this morning (Saturday) the battery was flat. It was charged up to about 80% when we went out late morning and by this afternoon was flat again.
The camera is so-so. The lens gives fuzzy-ish shots but they're not too bad for a phone-class camera, which is basically what the Gizmondo is really.
I can't comment on the GPS as the unit I have is a pre-production one with a known defect in its GPS such that it rarely, if ever, gets a reliable lock.
My son thinks the Fathammer games are cool, especially Stunt Car Racer but notes that the Gizmondo does take ages to boot up. This is down to it being a Windows CE machines, of course.
On balance, he thinks that the Gizmondo is "as cool" as his Nintendo DS which he bought last month, although the battery life and boot-up time let the Gizmondo down a bit.
Personally, I think that if it were £100 less, or preferably half the price, it would represent a good value WinCE machine with limited UI, but as it stands it is overpriced and/or underspecced.
Roll on Bizmondo / Altio (the next-gen business device)
>> Edited by JonRB on Saturday 16th April 19:49
I borrowed a Gizmondo from work on Friday and my 10-year old son has been test-driving it all weekend.
First off, battery life really is abysmal. It left the office fully charged and by this morning (Saturday) the battery was flat. It was charged up to about 80% when we went out late morning and by this afternoon was flat again.
The camera is so-so. The lens gives fuzzy-ish shots but they're not too bad for a phone-class camera, which is basically what the Gizmondo is really.
I can't comment on the GPS as the unit I have is a pre-production one with a known defect in its GPS such that it rarely, if ever, gets a reliable lock.
My son thinks the Fathammer games are cool, especially Stunt Car Racer but notes that the Gizmondo does take ages to boot up. This is down to it being a Windows CE machines, of course.
On balance, he thinks that the Gizmondo is "as cool" as his Nintendo DS which he bought last month, although the battery life and boot-up time let the Gizmondo down a bit.
Personally, I think that if it were £100 less, or preferably half the price, it would represent a good value WinCE machine with limited UI, but as it stands it is overpriced and/or underspecced.
Roll on Bizmondo / Altio (the next-gen business device)
>> Edited by JonRB on Saturday 16th April 19:49
murph7355 said:
If you have both a PSP and a DS, the battery life on the DS is going to be absolutely phenomenal - because you'll never turn it on.
The DS feels cheap in terms of build quality, the touch screen is a gimmick that is unlikely to do anything for playability and the graphics are very poor (relatively).
It did beat the PSP to market, but I suspect the technical people at Nonetendo will be kicking their marketing gurus.
The PSP is a very good movie player, OK MP3 player and photo viewer too. The only real bummer is its use of Sony Memory Stick - a typically Sony piece of proprietary nonesense. With a CF slot (or better still - a 40Gb HDD instead of the UMD nonesense), memory would be much cheaper and more readily available in much larger capacities. Ho hum.
Put the DS and the PSP next to each other and the DS is the one that's over priced.
Then again, I "only" paid 100 quid for my PSP in Japan...
Quality gadget. Hands down winner in this bunch. The PSINext forums have plenty of useful info on all sorts of things PSP.
Seconded.
I've tried both, and the PSP is the hands down winner.
murph7355 said:
If you have both a PSP and a DS, the battery life on the DS is going to be absolutely phenomenal - because you'll never turn it on.
The DS feels cheap in terms of build quality, the touch screen is a gimmick that is unlikely to do anything for playability and the graphics are very poor (relatively).
It did beat the PSP to market, but I suspect the technical people at Nonetendo will be kicking their marketing gurus.
The PSP is a very good movie player, OK MP3 player and photo viewer too. The only real bummer is its use of Sony Memory Stick - a typically Sony piece of proprietary nonesense. With a CF slot (or better still - a 40Gb HDD instead of the UMD nonesense), memory would be much cheaper and more readily available in much larger capacities. Ho hum.
Put the DS and the PSP next to each other and the DS is the one that's over priced.
Then again, I "only" paid 100 quid for my PSP in Japan...
Quality gadget. Hands down winner in this bunch. The PSINext forums have plenty of useful info on all sorts of things PSP.
Murph, I am laughing my arse off mate. Nothing comes close to the PSP.
Mine is with me everywhere since I bought it. I bought the screen guard but I scratched the thing a bit due to having it in my pocket with keys/coins. I have since bought 2 more of them and the screens were protected sharpish.
All this nonsense about not being able to put it in your pocket......rubbish. Pops in your rear jeans pocket, suit jacket inside pocket etc. However, it goes in my bag if I am not playing it or listening to music.
Going to have a little play around now to use it to go online to check email. Have only really used it for pics/mp3/music vids so far...oh and the games. FIFA is superb by the way!
Sony should have made more provisions to let people use more memory to store things (films) but I am sure the sneaky bastards knew what they were doing(keeping everything on their memorystick/UMD format.
They just blow everyone else out of the water with this one.
Thank god the thieving mexican who stole one of my brand new black V3s didn't see the PSP in my hotel room! I would have been really
ed off. JonRB said:
you can also play mp3s and watch movies on youer DS and as for the PDA functionality the ds has a touch screan macking it ifenety more uesbel in that way than the psp however the psp does have a certan wow factor.
I hope to God it also has a spell checker.
hi JonRB,
Thanks for your wonderful remarks have you had a look at my profile? Do you enjoy pissing others off?
Blake
ceebmoj said:I'm sorry if you were upset by my offhand and flippant remark. However, do you look at the profile of every person whose post you reply to? Did you look at mine?
Thanks for your wonderful remarks have you had a look at my profile? Do you enjoy pissing others off?
As it happens, I too am dyslexic. I just don't shout about it all over my profile and I use a spell checker.
Hi,
Yes I do look at a profile if I am making a direct reply to one person. You usually find some nice pictures of cars if nothing else. Witch I found on your profile I also went for a look at auto insult as it looked interesting Have you considered an excuse colander al BOFH.
I am sorry if I was a bit harsh but like your self if you are dyslexic I do get pised of with the comments. Also you will know that a spell checker is little or no help with spelling if you have any degree of severity of dyslexia as you work out the meaning of most words from context hence you can choose a number of words with a simpler spelling but not the right word.
Also I like to look at the website from other locations i.e. not with my main computer witch has a specially developed spellchecker/spoken word engine to help with this problem.
>> Edited by ceebmoj on Thursday 21st April 08:11
Yes I do look at a profile if I am making a direct reply to one person. You usually find some nice pictures of cars if nothing else. Witch I found on your profile I also went for a look at auto insult as it looked interesting Have you considered an excuse colander al BOFH.
I am sorry if I was a bit harsh but like your self if you are dyslexic I do get pised of with the comments. Also you will know that a spell checker is little or no help with spelling if you have any degree of severity of dyslexia as you work out the meaning of most words from context hence you can choose a number of words with a simpler spelling but not the right word.
Also I like to look at the website from other locations i.e. not with my main computer witch has a specially developed spellchecker/spoken word engine to help with this problem.
>> Edited by ceebmoj on Thursday 21st April 08:11
Poor old Gizmondo.
Trouble is, the more I develop for it, the more I think it is a bit of a lame duck.
Still, it pays the bills, and I still really believe that Bizmondo / Altio is going to be awesome and will wipe a few smiles off a few faces. Still, at a price point of double the Gizmondo and aimed at the business market it's going to need to.
Trouble is, the more I develop for it, the more I think it is a bit of a lame duck.
Still, it pays the bills, and I still really believe that Bizmondo / Altio is going to be awesome and will wipe a few smiles off a few faces. Still, at a price point of double the Gizmondo and aimed at the business market it's going to need to.
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