Comments on: GP3X to be released in October

By: matty d

matty d — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:28:41 +0000

Wiz? I mean come on, when I hear that word I think urine, processed cheese product or defunct electronics chain looted by the owners.
Somebody can beat that name, I nominate Mini Gp2x

By: noah vawter

noah vawter — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:26:00 +0000

3 cheers for built-in li-ion battery. that was the only thing that held me back from gp2x.

By: F00 f00

F00 f00 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:51:37 +0000

Just an fyi. This isnt 16gb as stated. Its 1Gb, with an sd card slot.

By: Zachary

Zachary — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:15:54 +0000

@Jproach...Pre-orders are most likely taking place at the end of September. The 30th has been thrown around loosely by mods, they had a full proto board at the leipzig gaming convention.
The 16gb of storage for the Wiz is a typo, Even discussed at Engadget. Pre-order for the Wiz says 1Gb storage.
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-d1-77-4-49-en-70-2z59.html Im waiting on Pandora...

By: winphreak

winphreak — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:29:02 +0000

I almost bought a GP2X when I heard about it, but it seems the manufacturers lacked much interest or participation in the development. I may be wrong, but that’s the feeling I got, and it seemed almost too ‘as-is’.

By: oarking

oarking — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:09:03 +0000

i hope the OS is alot smoother on these. the gp2x is pretty buggy and it hangs on a blank screen while whatever’s being loaded. oh and N64 emu support would be nice.

pandora would be cool too but until a price drop i’ll stick with the gpx line.

By: jproach

jproach — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:31:16 +0000

Pandora is ~$330 and a clamshell style. If anyone is curious: http://openpandora.org/

Who knows how long it will take to be released though.

By: miles

miles — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:44:49 +0000

OK, but have you covered the Pandora??

600mhz stock ARM 8 processor, Overclocks to 800-900mhz.

128mb of DDR

Qwerty keyboard

powervr SGX graphics

Wifi and Bluetooth

Dual analog controls.

800x480 touchscreen

The build quality and design of the GP2X was poor (I owned a few, just to see if the redesigns helped, they didn't).

This new version will be nearly the same crap. GPH is a crap korean company (not that all korean companies are crap, Hyundai is making a good korean product.)

Still no USB host built in, which the Pandora does have.