For Sudoku fans who are getting tired of carrying paper books around, here’s a handheld from Zhengchang Electronics with 10,000 Sudoku games preloaded. Now, I am not a Sudoku fan myself but I am assuming 10,000 games should last you a couple of years of dedicated Sudoku gaming, so this gadget should be totally worth its price. It’s available wholesale for stores interested in re-branding it and selling it retail. Unlike other Sudoku gamers, it’s completely touchscreen with a stylus and should be a pleasure to play Sudoku on.

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We here at PMPToday have no idea what all the fuss was about. So a couple of Swedes ad come up with an idea of putting GPRS and GPS on a gaming console, so what? Now we hear that Carl Freer, the non-embezzling co-owner of Gizmondo’s parent company, Tiger Telemantics, will release a new version of the Gizmondo device this time running on Windows CE 6.0. Windows CE 6? The same operating system that has been mocked and ridiculed when it runs inside a Chinese-made hardware, will now be used to harness the gaming capacity of a device that was solely responsible for the over $1 billion-dollar valuation of its manufacturer? Freer says the new Gizmondo will have a separate graphics chip and will be an open platform. Target release date is late this year… or thereabouts.

Read an old article on how Gizmondo had it all and lost it all, or nearly all, here. Ferrari Enzo driven by Stefan Eriksson crashes and torn in half.

[photo: gizmodo, story: engadget]

Shenzhen Derisson Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd. portable game-centric PMP will have the honor to be the first device of its kind to boast a built-in camera (that we’ve heard of). Sure, the PSP has the Go!Cam but that one’s sold separately and attached in semi-ludicrous fashion. The DPMP-003’s camera is built into the body. It’s not a webcam but a real photo shooter with 1.3 megapixels with the option to make it a 2 megapixel or 3 megapixel. The DPMP-003 has a 3-inch screen screen and records scheduled TV programs (don’t know how this works exactly but the specs says so). It supports NES games and ASF format of MEPG-4 videos. It also comes with a TV Out and support for music files as well as photos and TXT. Full specs after the break.

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Pandora is both a UMPC and and a gamer. It’s got a QWERTY keypad and gaming buttons similar to your SNES console. Don’t be fooled by how these buttons are arranged. If you noticed the coins put in front of the device for size comparison, the Pandora is an tiny little beast. The Pandora is powered by an ARM® Cortex™-A8 CPU and runs Linux. The screen is 4.3″-inch 800 x 480-pixel touchscreen LCD with 16.7 million colors. It has WiFi, USB, TV out, USB, etc. It’s not cheap with an MSRP of $330, but with the looks and everything it can do - currently, it’s available for developers and by June or July we can buy the Pandora on a retail store with all the UMPC and SNES goodies ready for handling.

Pndora specs after the break.

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Is there a DS 2.0 in the works. Hirokazu Hamamura, the head of the company that owns Famitsu mag, says that Ninetendo will unveil a new DS at E3 2008. As you know, Sony PSP has been gaining ground on DS in Japan even though it will take PSP some time yet to beat the DS’s 50 million lifetime sales. As for me, there’s not much I’d like to improve on the DS except the screen size and a slimmer form factor won’t do any hard either.

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My favorite first-person-shooter game can now be played on the iPhone. You move your character around using the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer. You shoot by tapping on the screen. It actually looks like a fun way to play Quake 3, but I doubt if you’re going to be beat anyone on a keyboard and mouse. Apparently, there’s no skipping in this version of Quake but still…

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Nokia’s N-Gage software is now available for download. If you own a N81, N81 8GB, N82, N95, or N95 8GB, point your browser to n-gage.mobi/d. I take N-Gage will be official on Monday and eventually other phones will be added, particularly the N73, N93, and N93i models. Other Nokia phones will follow.

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For PSP-2000, Sony has released Firmware 3.93 that enables your PSP to support Skype VoIP. Skype on PSP should’ve been available earlier if not for a faulty mic, but now it’s here. For Skype on PSP, you will need a memory stick, a headset and of course wireless Internet.

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PSPhone or PSP Phone, whatever Sony Ericsson will end up calling it, the two photos posted here is probably what it will look. Patent applications from SE has just been leaked showing us a touchscreen device with an accelerometer for upright and landscape viewing. There’s a phone mode, browser mode, and MP3 mode and the device goes to gaming mode automatically when held horizontally (landscape view). The buttons are all virtual and have a different setup depending on what mode it is in. The horizontal mode displays gaming buttons. The built-in Haptics should ensure that gaming experience is not that much different than on tactile buttons. Curiously, the virtual buttons on “phone mode” [image after the break) is very similar to the tactile buttons on many Sony Ericsson phones now.

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Go!Messenger for the PlayStation Portable is slated to launch this Friday. This gives you some pretty nifty communications options via a WiFi HotSpot, which besides instant messaging and voice calls includes video calling using Go!Cam. Ian Pulford of BT Retail says since the new call-out may be coming soon, which means calling on the PSP will not be limited to other PSP users with a Go!Messenger subscription. Go!Messenger is for registered users only. It is not compatible with other instant messaging software like MSN, Skype and AOL.

[via tech.co.uk]