What Should I Get First

[jrksuperman]

i need both but only can get one at a time
here is the cell phone i wanna get http://www.mobiletechreview.com/cingular-8125.htm
what do u think

 

[TyBO!]

Well, which do you value more, talking to your friends or doing the opposite, playing video games?

You should really be able to make this decision on your own.

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

that phone sucks nuts. get a 2x.

 

[nubie]

i need both but only can get one at a time
here is the cell phone i wanna get http://www.mobiletechreview.com/cingular-8125.htm
what do u think

Need more information, what do you plan on doing with each?

Phone stuff and online (and you can afford the Internet service) get the phone.

If you want to retro-game and/or watch Divx (on a TV too), get a GP2X.

 

[Alex.]

Well, for great homebrew and active community I definitely recommend getting a cellphone. :rolleyes:

- Alex

 

[jmetal88]

I never spent more than $30 on a cell phone, and I only buy pre-pay. It's just not worth more than that for something I only use once in a blue moon.

 

[gaterooze]

Like jmetal88 says, just get the cheapest prepaid cell you can buy -- buy a friend's one for $20, you know, the kind of person who "upgrades" every month. A phone is a phone -- you use it for talking on.

Then you can get a GP2X which will take care of your other entertainment needs

 

[Epicenter]

I'd vote for the '2x if it's for gaming; PocketPC gaming has always left a lot to be desired in terms of the actual selection available and the control schemes. The emulation community is barely existant, and most emulators I tried for my 2 PocketPCs were mostly abandoned.

 

[g4m3r]

Get a cheap phone and a GP2X, expensive phones are WAY overrated by the way.

 

[TKF15H]

buy a cheap phone, get a GP2X.
I got a Nokia S60 because it had a megadrive emulator and Doom, but after the novelty wore off, all I use it is for phone calls.

 

[Magnulus]

Personally, I still have my Nokia 3510. It's four years old, with a two-colour display and has been dropped forcibly to the ground several times over (I've actually had to replace the cover twice, but the phone still works.) and my point is that unless you REALLY care about all that fancy stuff on the phone (the camera looks shite, though. Those examples are poor poor poor.) I think you should get one of Nokia's relatively new "back to basics" models, like the Nokia 1101. You'll have all the attention when your ring tones aren't even polyphonic. Plus, it doubles as an LED flashlid. No, I'm serious.

After getting that for almost nothing, you can quite easily get the GP2X.

(I don't know what pre-paid means, but if you're talking about subscription schemes, then don't. You end up paying more for the phone than you would if you got it without a subscription and just got a GOOD subscription in stead on the side.)

 

[gaterooze]

(I don't know what pre-paid means, but if you're talking about subscription schemes, then don't. You end up paying more for the phone than you would if you got it without a subscription and just got a GOOD subscription in stead on the side.)

Prepaid means you don't have a subscription at all. You buy credit on your phone and use it at your leisure. It's perfect for people who don't make a lot of calls. My current phone only costs me US$20 per year to run, and even then I never use up all of the credit.

 

[X-Code]

If you're asking which you should get first, it is evident that you don't really need the mobile

 

[Paradox]

help i cant decide what should i buy smoke alarm for my house or a gp2x?! i just cant decide i must have others choose for me!

 

[TyBO!]

help i cant decide what should i buy smoke alarm for my house or a gp2x?! i just cant decide i must have others choose for me!

I'd go for the GP2X. I mean, if your house starts to burn down and you don't know cause you don't have a smoke alarm and you die, at least you'll die happy cause you'll be playing your GP2X. B)

 

[Ben_Unbanned]

I say, GET the gp2x, because that pohone you are planning to get is shit!

 

[greenmikey]

I would really think that asking a question ...gp2x or any item on these forums would really be a waste, the answer will always be gp2x. Someone should just make an informative sticky about these kinda posts.


the cure for cancer or gp2x...gp2x, squidge will probably program a cure for cancer anyways.

 

[OMars]

I would really think that asking a question ...gp2x or any item on these forums would really be a waste, the answer will always be gp2x. Someone should just make an informative sticky about these kinda posts.


the cure for cancer or gp2x...gp2x, squidge will probably program a cure for cancer anyways.

Hey man don't even joke about cancer like that..............ok maybe reesy. h34r:

 

[KoH]

yep that phone is Shit with a capital S !!!

If you look around the are a couple of PDA phones that are very powerfull, thing is you would have to pay more then that shit phone u linked to + a gp2x together

Horsepower and Performance

195 MHz? Doesn't make your heart race with excitement if you're a geek addicted to "the bigger the better" kinds of numbers. But wait: let's pretend you didn't know the CPU speed and someone gave you this unit to play with for an hour. Unless you were playing back video encoded above 500 kbps, you'd probably guess the Cingular 8125 was a 312 or 400 MHz unit. That's the common range of speeds for Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC phones

get one with a faster CPU

 

[Epicenter]

It probably has a true ARM9 processor in a System-on-a-Chip at 195 Mhz instead of say, an Xscale at 312 or ~400 Mhz (speeds typical to XScales.) As a general rule, XScales generally perform at about 50% the speed of a true ARM9 at the same clockrate. Many reviewers were baffled when 400 Mhz PocketPC units started flooding the market and showed no significant performance gains over 200 Mhz ARM9 units...

That said, the PocketPC emulation scene is a mess. There are 3 MegaDrive/Genesis emulators I tried; one is slow and doesn't work on most units, and was last updated over a year ago. MorphGear is abysmally slow, and doesn't even approach 60 FPS with sound even with a ~500 Mhz XScale proc (250 Mhz ARM9 equivalent performance). With sound off, it gets SOMEWHAT close. PicoDrive is very fast but has no sound and it's scaled miserably. Also it has massive compatibility issues like drawing all the dolphins in random orientation on the screen in Ecco 1/2 .. the developer told me he maybe intended to update it in the future, if he has time. Full speed MD Emulation on the GP2X with sound is a reality at the stock 200 MHz ...

NES emulation was better but even then the controls on any PocketPC I tried (or any smartphone for that matter) are really pitiful for it. Clicking navigation pads, not d-pads, too few buttons, shitty cramped orientation .. it just doesn't work.

Despite DaveC's comments that SNES emulation is superior on PocketPCs to the GP2X, that sure wasn't my experience. At ~500 MHz XScale clock performance was nowhere near 60 FPS. Not even close. I've sure as hell never seen a working Neogeo emulator-- the MAME port for PocketPC has no NeoGeo support at all. Good GB emulators exist, I'll admit that, and there are enough buttons for that. But the d-pad still sucked enough to make it hard to tolerate those ...