Helix - Handheld Game Platform From Ex-Palm Staff

madopal writes "It seems Reuters is reporting that some ex-Palm officials have announced a new gaming platform called Helix. The company is called Tapwave, but there's nothing on their site yet." This article in the San Jose Mercury News has a few more details - apparently, the unit will even feature an analog joystick and trigger buttons, and with its Palm OS organizer functionality, is apparently aimed at an older, more crossover audience than the Gameboy Advance.

Comments

They should ask themselves this before they build.

[heldlikesound]

Will the organizor features compete with the Palm?
Will MP3 player features compete with the iPod?
Will the gaming features compete with the GB SP?

If not, we are going to have another device that does three or four thing, but does them really poorly.

I'm dreaming of a smallish device (flip style, deck of cards) that will be a great cell phone, a great PDA, and a great mp3 player, and maybe play games... But i still think we are about two years off from that.

I'm interested in the next Handsprings, but they still seem so plasticky and the bezels add some much to the size...