Gizmondo 2 seen, on track for year's end News
Gizmondo News by Robert Purchese
The fabled Gizmondo 2 has been seen and is on schedule to begin selling this year, according to Media Power, the company behind the second coming.
Boss Richard Jenkins met with journalist Hans Sandberg and showed him the new model, which sticks rigidly to the old design but boasts a better battery and new NVIDIA graphics.
Jenkins said the deal with the Chinese manufacturer was sorted and could easily be ramped up to cope with - wait for it - consumer demand in 2009.
However, the vaunted price of USD 99 may have been a touch ambitious. "We're working on the price," explained Jenkins.
The Gizmondo 2 will offer a choice of Google operating system Android or Windows CE, and aims to act as a games platform, media player, camera, SMS and MMS messager. No phone calls, mind you.
We're told to expect a "really cool" website to order the Gizmondo 2 from sometime in mid-October. Hopefully they won't buy a decommissioned missile, paint "Sony" on it and plant it outside their offices this time. That wouldn't help.
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Triggerhappytel
11/09/08 @ 15:38
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Isn't this some sort of tax loophole cheat thing? I mean, they don't honestly believe it would make any more money than the first one, do they?!
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Triggerhappytel
11/09/08 @ 16:19
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I assume you are being sarcastic, anomagnus?
"i cant wait for this to launch, i hope it becomes another phantom" This is literally a contradiction in terms. To become another Phantom, it can't launch. But again, I am assuming this is deliberate and you're being ironic.
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That IS the last one. I see zero evidence that this is anything other than the old Gismondo. Maybe they had stock sitting in a warehouse somewhere and are now trying to flog them for a quick buck.
If I were the reporter, I would have asked for the thing to be switched on. I'm betting the battery would be as dead as a Dodo after years in a warehouse somewhere. Edit: I should have said also that if you are seriously in the market for something like this, get the gamepark one instead.
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CapnCloudchaser
12/09/08 @ 10:56
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Don't tell my hubby.
He made me sell my GBA with the promise of a DS later on so he could get the original, which he still owns. And I still don't have a DS! |
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