PSP and DS killer? If this video is real, MS thinks so

http://creativecoremedia.com/mso.swf

Have a look, if this is real, looks like MS is going to dip there fingers in the handheld market.

 

http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=24365883

If its what i think it is, it is real. Microsoft admitted it. But its all a concept from over a year ago, all the stuff is faked

 

Only 3 days, until we find out what the deal is.....


Ryan

 

Oh wow, if I get one will I bee able to do all the hip swinging things that all the hip swinging young kids in the video are doing?

I don't see how that thing would be attempting to compete with the PSP or DS at all. It's huge-a-riffic and doesn't look like it's got very good controls for gaming anyway. I think it's more like something to compete with the new all-in-one media player/PDA things like the LifeDrive or the Archos PMA430. Basically just a small tablet PC.


...word is bondage...

 

Remember guys, it is just a POS handheld PC, and it uses Windows mega POS, but that is just my opinion, and I am not impressed.

 

Pretty much looks like a tablet pc. If I feel it can't replace a device I rely on (eg. laptop, xbox, etc) it would just collect dust on my shelf.

 

I've religated my pocket pc to the land of unused pocket sized devices along with my Palm III, Palm IIIc, Palm V, Palm VII, Handspring III, Handspring IIIc, HP something or other, Compaq something or other, and Dell Axim 5. Handhelds are worthless. Tablets are more than worthless. There just isn't any market for something like this...

 

Its a tablet PC first with native handwriting support, speech recording, internet surfing via wifi/blutooth; media player second; and emulator/videogame player third.

 

Makes you wonder if the battery life will be long enough for this thing to be functional... :shrug:

 

I'm sure a 9-cell lithium ion battery will suffice as long as its all one board with the only thing seperate is a laptop HDD. Chances are this thing won't have upgradeable ram. What you get is it, you can't change it.

If this thing does get unveiled soon, then I hope it packs a Pentium M. Those things are great with batteries and outperform other mobile CPUs out there. It will also make for a great emulator machine too.

 

PDAs aren't very useful largely because they don't have a hard drive, so they can't be as full functioned as a computer. This thing probably does have a hard drive (the LifeDrive and PMA430 do), so they can a hell of a lot more than older PDAs.

I don't see why a tablet like this would be less useful than a laptop, there's certainly a market for those and I imagine that in the coming years that market will be greatly diminished by products like this.

As for battery life, another topic about this machine I was reading on another forum linked to an article that quoted a Microsoft muckity-muck saying that they envisioned a product like this having an "all-day battery life." To me that means at least 16 hours, which should certainly be possible in fact. The PMA430 from Archos gets like seven or eight hours of general use from a relatively small battery, there's easily enough room for the equivelant of two or even three or four PMA430 batteries in this thing.


...word is bondage...

 

I'm sure the battery life will have to be quite long, at least 8 hours to be able to sell. My friend has a tablet PC. It is really nice. Great for college and other basic tasks. I can also see why a this device would be good for the photagraphers, artists.... the Mac users, who want something portable but not as expensive as an ibook and not as big. Something they can turn on, and less than a second, you're at the main menu.

 

i hope this doesnt turn out to be another "lifestyle" device aimed at gamers :\

A portable Xbox may work

 

Too bad it wano't have any good games on it. The DS is here to stay.

 

I can get 9 hours out of my Mobile M laptop... 13 if i'm running linux... i'm not too worried about battery.

 

It may work, if they can pull a hype the size of the iPod's...

Anyways, I hope the halo images were more than just a "concept" and the thing can play xbox games

 

Don't forget Halo had a PC release, it may just run certain games designed/redesigned to run on it.

I'd consider buying this, handwrite lectures and then uploaded them to my comp, smaller then a laptop so it'd be easier to carry around. Though I can't say that it'll reach it's eluded potential these things rarely do.

 

If only they can make it thinner. That thing is just way too thick and seems to weigh more than 3pounds, so if MS wants to market this to the apple audience, they need to make it lighter so that MAC users wont get exhausted lugging that thing around ;-)

 

Well lets see tonight if apple have anything interesting to show at that conference...

 

tablet pc and PDA had sex?

seriously, whats that again?? ... MS should get off their asses first and create solid gaming systems...