Gp2x Has Some Competition...

[OMars]

A new device called the GreenPhone is supposed to come out next month at a "reasonable cost". I hope this is cheap cause I would definitely pick one up. What do you guys think? :huh:

 

[sehs33]

Guess not at all, such buttons are a nightmare for playing games, I am still suffering whenever I try to play super mario on the nes emulator I have on my Nokia phone, the only good phones for gaming to this moment are Ngages + some PDA's for playing games that require a mouse like movement (I am addicted to playing worms world party on my imate Jam)

Edit: BTW, What does your earlier signature mean OMars? 'ash alwatan?

 

[evilmegaman]

Man... I want that so much.. I hope it's released in the states and I can use Verizon with it

 

[OMars]

Guess not at all, such buttons are a nightmare for playing games, I am still suffering whenever I try to play super mario on the nes emulator I have on my Nokia phone, the only good phones for gaming to this moment are Ngages + some PDA's for playing games that require a mouse like movement (I am addicted to playing worms world party on my imate Jam)

Edit: BTW, What does your earlier signature mean OMars? 'ash alwatan?

It's Arabic, It means "Long Live the Nation" or Homeland.

 

[mdinire]

I bet the battery life would suck assssssssss

 

[Alex.]

I wouldn't say it's direct competition, but rather that they complement each other. I guess it'd be fun to program every aspect of a cellphone. Hopefully this trend of open-ended products will continue in the future.

- Alex

 

[Crazy Goat]

I completely agree with Alex, this phone merely adds the functionality one would want out of an open source device, but doesn't seem to have the same processing power that the GP2X has.

 

[sehs33]

After re-reading the news post, I noticed it has a touch screen, this would open many doors, but isn't it so small? you will be barely able to write three characters per line using the stylus?

 

[NoidZ]

I had a Sony Ericsson k500i with the same joystick. And believe me, it sucks ass so much that you want to - smash the phone on the floor / smash the phone against the wall / let a car drive over it / take a look if it's waterproof / ...

 

[iignotus]

Crap for games, doesn't hold a candle to the gp2x, but I have been looking for a candybar cell, and this seems quite great.

 

[Epicenter]

Well, first off it's a SmartPhone like any other; it uses a PocketPC SoC (system on a chip) and runs phone applications in addition to PDA-oriented ones. You can run some emulators on such machines, but the scene is terrible and the emulators are primitive, poorly programmed, slow and rarely maintained. To put that in perspective, even NES and GB emulation was a chore to get working at acceptable speeds with a 400 MHz XScale chip, and MegaDrive/Genesis emulation either ran at 2/3 of its proper speed without sound with decent accuracy, or at 100% of its proper speed but with no sound and very inaccurate emulation. SNES emulation can only be described as hellish and uselessly slow. The D-Pad looks to be of the clicky style on the 2 PocketPCs I most recently owned, which was nearly useless for any sort of gameplay, unless you were say, holding right in Mario or Sonic and NEVER letting go. Any kind of fluid motion is impossible.

As for technical specifications, while the XScale processor is compatible with ARM9 code, its 312 MHz clockrate is unimpressive in that an XScale processor is roughly 50% the speed of a true ARM9 at the same clock. e.g. a 312 MHz XScale will perform on par with a 156 MHz ARM9. It's much weaker than the GP2X CPU, especially if you overclocked the 920T to 266 MHz-- it would take an XScale over 500 MHz to match its performance. I also see no mention of any sort of 2D or 3D acceleration.

So .. no, not competition at all. Not even in the same playing field. Or the same sport.

 

[OMars]

Well, first off it's a SmartPhone like any other; it uses a PocketPC SoC (system on a chip) and runs phone applications in addition to PDA-oriented ones. You can run some emulators on such machines, but the scene is terrible and the emulators are primitive, poorly programmed, slow and rarely maintained. To put that in perspective, even NES and GB emulation was a chore to get working at acceptable speeds with a 400 MHz XScale chip, and MegaDrive/Genesis emulation either ran at 2/3 of its proper speed without sound with decent accuracy, or at 100% of its proper speed but with no sound and very inaccurate emulation. SNES emulation can only be described as hellish and uselessly slow. The D-Pad looks to be of the clicky style on the 2 PocketPCs I most recently owned, which was nearly useless for any sort of gameplay, unless you were say, holding right in Mario or Sonic and NEVER letting go. Any kind of fluid motion is impossible.

As for technical specifications, while the XScale processor is compatible with ARM9 code, its 312 MHz clockrate is unimpressive in that an XScale processor is roughly 50% the speed of a true ARM9 at the same clock. e.g. a 312 MHz XScale will perform on par with a 156 MHz ARM9. It's much weaker than the GP2X CPU, especially if you overclocked the 920T to 266 MHz-- it would take an XScale over 500 MHz to match its performance. I also see no mention of any sort of 2D or 3D acceleration.

So .. no, not competition at all. Not even in the same playing field. Or the same sport.

awwwww

 

[hitbyambulance]

Man... I want that so much.. I hope it's released in the states and I can use Verizon with it

Verizon (and Sprint) use CDMA - this phone is GSM....

 

[BradN]

The GreenPhone is meant only for developers - there are no plans to sell it to end users.