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New Nintendo DS to Include Camera, Music
BobB-nw writes "Watch out Apple, here comes Nintendo. Nintendo plans to launch a new version of its popular DS portable gaming device with a camera and music player function, according to a report in the Sunday edition of The Nikkei Business Daily. The new version will have better wireless capability for connecting to the Internet and will cost under $189, the report said. It will be offered first in Japan, it said. The DS first went on sale in 2004, and a second version, called the DS Lite, debuted two years later in 2006. Both have sold extremely well, with worldwide sales of the DS products at 77.5 million units as of the end of June this year."
Any news on the new Playstation Wii?
Watch out Apple, here comes Nintendo. Nintendo plans to launch a new version of its popular DS portable gaming device with a camera and music player function
Apple? How about RIM! RIM isn't even beginning to compete in this space. Instead, they have their "Curve". It's ONLY claim to fame is that it is a BlackBerry marketed to the general public - something that I would not call much of an innovation - and it's missing the hottest technology of the decade, Multi-Touch.
Sure, RIM is counting on the "business professional", with decent Exchange integration (which, BTW, the iPhone has now - I know, I've used it).
But let's be real - many advances in computing technologies - from graphics card to GUI interfaces to the Internet to Open Source software and Shareware were considered unprofessional toys in their day. Even Microsoft discounted the Internet for 5 years, and thousands of companies ignored Open Source and Shareware and Linux until they ended up looking like fools and/or getting fired.
RIM wants to convince the world that "real business users are BlackBerry users". In the mean time, RIM is loosing their technology expertise, as their tech people leave them for where the excitement and money is.
Yes, RIM will "soon" have a "killer" device - two years late to market, and with dubious capabilities. RIM may just be making the Aviion of the decade - the last nice product of a quickly-evaporating corporation.
I somehow doubt that many people are buying these addon cards for Video. I mean, does anyone really watch movies on that tiny screen?
I can't wait for the MP3 Blender. Then I can have it play You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) while I blend!
Yeah, but Will It Blend? Hmmm, that'd make for an interesting showdown--can a Blendtec devour a lesser blender?
This guy's the limit!
Just wait until Apple and Nintendo come out with the iGameMacBoy.