Even the Chinese cloners are steering clear of the PSP Go. Venus has a new all-around PMP that coincidentally resembles the PlayStation Portable hardware. The JXD300 supports GBA, NES games as well as various video and music files like RMVB, RM, AVI, MPG, FLV and playing DVDs and VCD files directly is not out of the question either. Oh, it’s an e-Book as well. Not much more details and no pricing yet but it’s crystal clear we probably won’t see much PSP Go cloning.

[via imp3]

No one is pre-ordering the PSP go in the United kingdom. People in the U.K. are not too keen in going UMD-less, or maybe they just find the retail price of the go, which is £130 pricier than the old PSP, too prohibitive. Joystiq reports:

The sticker shock may be scaring off customers, as independent shops are telling Edge some frightening pre-order stories. “I don’t have a single pre-order for PSP Go at the moment,” Chips’ Don McCabe told the outlet. “We haven’t got any [PSP Go pre-orders] at all,” repeated Grainger Games’ Chris Harwood. While the head of SCEE believes consumers will pay an early adopter premium, McCabe believes otherwise. “We can’t see where that price justification comes in when effectively it’s a lighter, slimmer PSP. It’s got a bit more memory, but memory’s not that expensive. It can’t handle UMD so part of the mechanism disappears, so where does the price come from?”

Well, that is shocking if no one at all, and I mean nada, went out of his way to pre-order a PSP Go. Still, that may stillchange. Perhaps before the official release on October 1, someone’s favorite uncle may have his eyes set on one before Christmas and making sure he has his hands on one by pre-ordering

[joystiq via engadget]

[via engadget]
Skip on after the break to view the videos.

It’s been a while, over a year to be exact, since we last heard about the Pandora, but based on these new pictures, it looks like its inching ever so closer to becoming commercially available. No, we still don’t have a release date or price just yet, but these new pictures of the Pandora should provide you with some reassurance that things are progressing over at their camp. Granted that it’s nowhere near as sexy as the new PSP Go, we’re more than ready to forgive its lack luster design just as long as it promises to live up to expectation in terms of over-all functionality. That’s about it for now, but do check back soon as we hear a video of the Pandora will be made available soon.

[gadgetoid via engadget]
More pics after the break.

Apart from the scrapping of the UMD and the obvious sliding mechanism, we also now know that the PSP Go comes with a 3.8-inch display, Bluetooth that supports tethering and headsets, full PlayStation Network support, PS3 integration, 16GB of internal memory with Memory Stick Micro slot for additional storage, and weighs 43% lighter than the PSP-3000. Now this is what I call an upgraded PSP. As for the games, Little Big Planet, and a new Gran Turismo and Metal Gear Solid are confirmed to be headed to this new portable gaming console with more games to follow from other developers as well. We’ve more or less got the gist of the what the PSP Go has to offer, but check back soon as we’re expecting a few more surprises when Sony official launches the PSP Go.

[via engadget]
Videos and more pictures after the break.

The PSP Go, as it’s called, is a UMD-less version of the Sony’s premiere mobile gaming console. Apart from ditching the UMD media, it might also feature a touchscreen display, sliding mechanism to hide the controls, and be released in two storage capacity variants – 8GB and 16GB. The image above is just an artist’s rendition, but we won’t be surprised if it actually is spot on.

As UMD is now out of the picture, Sony and the new PSP Go will capitalize on the online retail of downloadable content which Apple has proven to be a very viable revenue source with their App Store. Unbound Saga will be one of those games that’ll be available as a download only while Patapon 2 might still continue to be a download voucher for the PSP franchise with more games to follow. We’re still clueless as to its price (console and game), but with E3 just around the corner, we’ll find out soon enough how much it will actually cost.

[via arstechnica]

The design of the alleged leaked Microsoft device does not help in keeping the suspicions away that this isn’t a fake, and a grainy shot of a supposed unveiling conference of ZuneX is obviously fake, even for a photographic dilettante. But imagine if Microsoft can make a similar, if differently designed device, with the same specs:

• 4-inch 640 x 363 screen
• Intel LV Atom dual core 733MHz (that’s just like 1.4Ghz!)
• Nvidia Blowfish
• 128 MB RAM (trying to lower the specs to make the fake more convincing?)
• WMV, H.264, MPEG-4 and DivX videos
• 32GB storage
• headset Bluetooth support
• OnLive game streaming, ZuneX Originals, Xbox Live Arcade Games
• No price or availability for this fake

The doctored conference photo of the ZuneX unveiling after the break.

[via gizmodo]

Now you can actually get one delivered to your home. The GP2X WIZ portable game system retails for $179.90, no difference from the previous announcement at this site. GamePark has released several portable gamers before so don’t worry if you think the design and specs is a little iffy.

The GP2X WIZ, supports e-Book functionality and plays music and videos besides being a portable game console. Listed specs after the break.

[via engadget]GP2X WIZ:

• Color: Black
• Powered by a 533Mhz 3D accelerator plus flash engine
• 12 games embedded in the console including demos for upcoming official games
• 1 gigabyte flash memory
• SD card supported
• OS: Linux
• Battery: 2000mAh lithium polymer, loads via USB or A/C
• Size:121×61x18 mm

This is the most blatant and boldest cloning we’ve seen here at PMPToday. The Geda VX690HD PMP totally supports HD and Blu-Ray resolutions and with the 4.3-inch touchscreen supporting 1920 X 1080 pixels, it’s the best screen on an HD MP4 player we’ve seen. I’m not so sure copying the PlayStation Portable form factor is such a bad thing. Look at the button all around the face of the screen. Would you believe it’s even WiFi-enabled.

Specs include multiple gaming format support including GBA, SNES, NES and NeoGeo. Btw, anyone can tell me what Open the Zoo (OTZ) is for?

[via imp3 forums] Another cool phot of the Geda VX690HD after the break.

The PSPhone could still be made, says Hideki Komiyama, president of Sony Ericsson, during an interview with the Financial Times. It may not have escaped Komiyama that Sony Ericsson’s market share is in trouble and a gaming phone line to add to its Cyber-Shot and Walkman Phone lines can only help. Can SE actually make such a phone? Short answer is, yes, a PlayStation Phone can actually be done. Sony will have to reconsider, if, as rumored, they’ve already said no to such a device.

[source via theregister]