OK time for people who've got their consoles and had a play to talk about it.
Console itself:
Without the screen protector on it looks a bit cheapish but when you put it on it looks much much better. The joystick felt a bit stiff at first and had trouble recognising down but when I unscrewed it a bit it fixed that problem and it's pretty accurate.
Face buttons are fairly comfortable although due to the spacing, pressing A and B at the same time could prove tricky. The volume and start and select buttons are raised a bit higher and feel a bit odd but it should stop you pressing start or select when pressing X.
Video playback
Bit mixed here. When it was working the quality was superb, fairly bright colours, silky smooth and the speakers where better than I was expecting (not much bass but then that's a given for handhelds) and I think they're better than the ones on PSP and DS. Unfortunately I tried it with 2 different DivX 5.0 vids and it has a tendancy to crash quite often. This is probably down to the firmware/card reading issues though but at the moment it seems that it's probably no good for watching full length divx videos until it's fixed.
Game (Quake 1)
easy to set up and start playing. lack of mouselook isn't too bad as the singleplayer game was designed to be played without it although asigning L+R to strife in each direction may be handy. Frame rate seems to hover around 20-25 although it drops a bit if there are 4 or more enemies on the screen at the same time. Impressive for an early version though and more than playable.
All I've tried so far...
Console itself:
Without the screen protector on it looks a bit cheapish but when you put it on it looks much much better. The joystick felt a bit stiff at first and had trouble recognising down but when I unscrewed it a bit it fixed that problem and it's pretty accurate.
Face buttons are fairly comfortable although due to the spacing, pressing A and B at the same time could prove tricky. The volume and start and select buttons are raised a bit higher and feel a bit odd but it should stop you pressing start or select when pressing X.
Video playback
Bit mixed here. When it was working the quality was superb, fairly bright colours, silky smooth and the speakers where better than I was expecting (not much bass but then that's a given for handhelds) and I think they're better than the ones on PSP and DS. Unfortunately I tried it with 2 different DivX 5.0 vids and it has a tendancy to crash quite often. This is probably down to the firmware/card reading issues though but at the moment it seems that it's probably no good for watching full length divx videos until it's fixed.
Game (Quake 1)
easy to set up and start playing. lack of mouselook isn't too bad as the singleplayer game was designed to be played without it although asigning L+R to strife in each direction may be handy. Frame rate seems to hover around 20-25 although it drops a bit if there are 4 or more enemies on the screen at the same time. Impressive for an early version though and more than playable.
All I've tried so far...