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for those of you who saw the other post first... sorry to double post.

basically i'm in the market for a handheld. something to replace my mp3 walkman and books.

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PSP, is underpowered and lacks adequate resolution for movies to be enjoyable on the go. Would be nice if it had more games that i liked too.

iPOD is far to expensive and not nearly versatile enough. Though iTUNES plus video seems exactly the sort of thing MS should have in store for windows VIsta and xbox live marketplace.

DS, also lacking in the media department, and power.. resolution isn't even a factor with something from nintendo...

as for origami, it may displace laptops for some people but... even with claims that such UMPCs will run VIsta.. it will be a stripped down version. without enough RAM or a powerful enough GPU attached origami.. or even some lower end laptops will not be powerful enough for VIsta.

that being said, MS does need a handheld to fill out the xbox ecosystem, as long as its somewhere between EXO and origami i'll be happy.

Conclusion? He probably believes everything he reads.

My conclusions about PSP were based on other portable devices having at least 640x480 resolution. even some cell phones have 640x480 resolution. psps resolution is too small and its gfx performance not adequate for even ps2 level gaming.. though thats really another issue.

i'll continue biting.. 333mhz cpu os trash, when there are 1ghz + mobile processors, and that doesn't even include power efficient transmeta processors. to say that psp doesn't even use 333mhz is proving my point for me. with at least a ghz of processing power a handheld can exceed xbox level performance.. battery life notwithstanding.

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as i stated i'm not looking for much or HD

unless you mean HD for handhelds.

what i'm looking for is 640x360 resolution in a handheld with a wide enough screen to watch movies on. they doesn't have to be super high res, just TV resolution VGA, and wide aspect for movies instead of bars (meaning 4:3 aspect would have verticle bars).

since starting this topic, actually about a week or two later rumours started spreading that jallard and company are working on whats being called the Xplayer.

whatever they build i'll probably buy unless PSP2 comes along first. and satisfies more than a few of the things i've suggested for EXO/Xplayer.

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i don't smoke anything stronger than fog or drink anything stronger than water FYI.

Let's put this topic to good use: Care to share some links to those online flash games that actually play well on the PSP?

A nice sudoko or a katamari puzzle game would do. Those that I know, are too big to display and play well on the PSP.

The PSP is an amazing piece of machinery. Movies play flawlessly, and can easily outperform most 640x480 PVPs. Although I eventually sold my PSP for a Nintendo DS (I wasn't a fan of the PSP games), it worked great for movies and music. There are also a few other things you can do with a nice sized memory stick

If you're looking for something more music/movie orientated, I'd recommend an ARCHOS AV500 portable DVR. It has a 30GB HDD, and plays movies in absolutely amazing quality. If gaming is your thing, then go for a DS. If you want a little of both, then go for a PSP. It's as simple as that.

I can get up to 6 hours of video, and around 15 of audio on mine. It's about $350 in the US, so you'd be better ordering it and having it shipped. I wouldn't recommend this if you already have a PSP though, unless you never used it like I did. I hadn't touched my PSP in almost 4 months, and so I sold it. I used the money (and a little of my own) to buy an AV500 and a DS Lite, and I'm content with both.

Still, each has different tastes. I prefer having the DS for games and the AV500 for movies, but most people prefer to have it in one package.

I've read that the creative zen vision: m is supposed be a really good music player and it also plays movies. Now I haven't had experience with it ( too much money and don't really watch movies on the go) but from the reviews I have read it seems like a really good player for the money. Now if like playing games and watching movies and listening to music then the psp seems the way to go.

i don't think they could compete with the nintendo DS or psp who would easily destroy the microsoft competion, maybe they when nintendo and sony come out with there new handhelds, but then the ms xbox handheld would have to compete with people who owned the successor of the psp and ds wanted the new one

however MS did it with the xbox and xbox 360 so they could pull it off