Oh yeah, this almost certainly the MIPS64 Sony licensed last year.
Interestingly this indicates that the one of the cores isn't acessible to the 'user' (by which I assume they mean developers). So I guess that's where the OS is going to live, like the IOP on a PS2. I suppose this might make some sense, from a DRM angle, but it does seem to be a bit of a waste of an entire processing core, especially on something as power-critical as a hand held device.
Hmm, it's not really a GameBoy is it. Too large (4.5" diagonal 16:9 screen), and several people have expressed concerns about battery life. Obviously it's not a phone, and it's probably too large to be an iPod. Besides, unless those discs are writable, how would you get music onto it anyway? A 128MB memory stick doesn't really cut the mustard, when placed next to even the smallest iPod, currently 10Gb. Wonder if it's a Palm? Although no touch screen, so unless they've got extensions for joysticks, no PDA angle. You could keep a read-only calendar and diary on it. Maybe some sort of funky dual-stick character entry.
The wireless angle is interesting though.
Really need to see the form-factor, or at least, get a stick & button count.
Posted by inpHilltr8r at July 29, 2003 08:07 PM