G1 Google Phone Could End Up the Most Popular Console Ever 116
Jon Jordan writes "Pocket Gamer has been getting its fingers inside the unique new Zeebo console — a sub $200 system designed for emerging markets — to discover it's based on a hacked version of the T-Mobile G1 Google phone. It effectively consists of the chipset from the HTC Dream/G1 Android phone, plus some extra I/O to deal with TV screens, controllers and the like. If this gaming, entertainment and educational console for the billion-strong middle classes in emerging economies such as Brazil and India catches on, HTC could become a serious global gaming force. Qualcomm's Mike Yuen said in an interview, 'We have this mass market chipset, and our next-generation chipset is getting faster. What we announced, [Qualcomm's] Snapdragon [chipset], is going to netbooks; it bumps it a few notches above that. The cell phone business, including us, is never going to build a processor that's going to match or surpass what the video game guys do. So, why chase that?'"
Re:Why? (Score:5, Funny)
To be fair, the title did say could. The Phantom could end up the most popular console ever. Duke Nukem Forever could end up the most popular game ever.
Words are fun!
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"emerging markets"
Translation: "We have no idea who's going to buy this."
Re:Not in Brazil (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not in Brazil (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah man, those pirates are getting smarter every year, they even have a time machine now.
Yet here is the rest of the world sitting living out their lives linearly.
Shocking state of affairs if i do say so myself.
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Re:Really, submitter and editors? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm sensing a little tension. May I suggest decaf?
Re:Why? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why? (Score:3, Funny)
They "might" be interchangable, but I'm not sure you "could" use them that way without confusion...
I see what you did there >_>