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The GP2x: A Too-Good-To-Be-True Linux-Powered Handheld

by raincontreras September 21, 2005
written by raincontreras September 21, 2005

To sum it up:

It can play games. It can play your Movies. It can play your music. It can view photos. It can read Ebooks. It runs on just 2 AA batteries – And it can do all this in the palm of your hand or on your TV screen.

Yes that’s right, this handheld can connect to the TV, console style. Watch your DivX movies on the TV. Play emulated classics on the TV. Try big screen Quake. Or just play them all on the GP2X’s large 320*240 backlit screen. You get the best of both worlds.

It runs the free Linux operating system. This means a whole world of Games, Utilities and Emulators are at your disposal. Quake, Doom, SNES, Megadrive, MAME, Media players and Applications to name just a few.

It’s powerful – Two 200mhz CPU’s with 64meg of RAM, custom graphics hardware and decoding chips. Takes SD cards and has 64M of NAND memory. Plenty to play with. One of the most powerful and advanced handhelds today.

That means it can play movies without any re-encoding. Just put them onto an SD card. Any size. Any resolution. No messing about. The GP2X scaling chip will resize to fit the screen. No other handheld can do that.

It’s cheap. Just £124.99 (source; via Boing Boing)

That’s roughly 8,500 pesos. IMHO, this really looks like a sweet, sweet deal. First batch of units will be available on October, so interested buyers can only pre-order for now.

However, shipping to the Philippines seem to be unsupported, so contact your relatives abroad quick, since they did emphasize they only have limited stocks to give out.

Wipe the drool off your face, FOSS advocates!

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