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Game Boy Gets Videophone Attachment

Posted by simoniker on from the there's-a-person-on-my-screen dept.

Thanks to the San Jose Mercury News for their article about a new videophone peripheral for the Game Boy Advance, being launched in Japan this December. According to the article, "The 13,000 yen (US$110) Campho Advance... slips into the top of the Game Boy Advance just like any video-game cassette. When connected to an analog telephone outlet [and someone with the same equipment], the display shows live video of the person on the other end of the line... Your own image will show up in the corner of the display." There's also a picture of the Campho Advance over at Famitsu.com.

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  1. N-cage? by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Ehm am I the only who thinks this is a spoof of the N-cage joke? You know the japanese proofing that they can make a joke toy just as good as the europeans?

    This thing has the same bad design flaw it looks like. The n-cage you gotta take apart to change the game. Here you gotta change the game to make it a phone :) and just how the fuck do you dial?

    Oh well at $110 I think it will share the same success as the n-cage. To expensive for something that can be done by dedicated hardware so much better and more easily.

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  2. Not surprising. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The GBA, while only as powerful as the lower end PDAs, still has more than enough processing power for most portable applications and a color screen to boot. I'd bet it's already got MP3 players.

    I always thought they should make a cartridge with a mini hard drive and USB connector (to load it at a PC) for having a nifty Linux platform too, provided all the applications on the drive are made to work with the joypad rather than some sort of keyboard emulation kludge.