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To sum up the GP2X:

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.

It's open. You want to develop your own games for the GP2X? Go right ahead. The SDK is included with the system free. Not since the days of the Amiga has a system been so easy to develop for, commercially and for fun.

The GP2X isn't just another wannabe be Gameboy. Its a whole different design. A whole new idea for a handheld games system.

But wait, we're not new to the scene. Heard of the GP32? An accidental experiment in an open source handheld that went right. Some 30,000 units were sold worldwide, mostly in the UK and parts of Europe. The machine has an astonishing following. The GP2X is the successor.

We hope you will enjoy it.

-Craig Rothwell
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I know that handheld device .It been out for a long time.If my memory servs me right its been out for 1and 6 months,Its made in asia i think
But please read sites about the review,its not all good
 
here's a review by trustedreviews.com. they gave it a 7/10 rating.

darkzero.co.uk gave it a 9.4/10 rating. their verdict:
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With so many open features the GP2X landscape will be constantly evolving, and with the power of the Internet it already has a big community following. There’s also at least one file archive. As this is such a community-focused system you really need to keep an eye on what’s going on to get the most out of it. GP32X.com is a very substantial fan site and with a very helpful forum.

At only £124.99 you’re getting a lot for your money; along with the ability to play games, video, music, you also get a basic eBook reader (text-only) and an image viewer capable of opening GIF, JPEG and PNG files. SD cards are a superb way of moving your data about at speed and the cost of them are coming down to around £15 for a 1GB card, enough to store a hundred games plus a movie. Unfortunately there is no WiFi capability but that is asking a bit much considering all of the other features. Hopefully the GP3X will come with multiplayer WiFi support!

Overall the unit is nice looking, fairly lightweight, slim and apart from the limited battery life - a common problem facing the whole electronics industry - there’s nothing to fault. UK readers can buy the system from GP2X.co.uk
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If it had a screen as big as the PSP's or bigger, I'd have bought one in an instant.

I'm in the need of a cheap, lightweight eBook reader. Sony make one but it's hellishly expensive.
 
What PSP? :) I'd prefer to wait until a Linux console comes out with a better screen, I know the PSP ca be modded with hacked firmware updates, but meh, I'd rather support a company/product that doesn't lock it's users out of homebrew software. I HATE Sony.
 
very well indeed.If you get one i will be happy to help you,and sony cannot lock the homebrew,There is ways and means to get around it ,as you know this already
Irshell can read ebooks and html documents and much more
www.irshell.com
 
GP2X is a brilliant machine - especially since it's got an sdio slot - apparently some people have added sd wireless cards 'n all...

V1 had it's problems - but v2 is truly excellent - I might be slightly biased tho as I'm a bit of an 8-bit/mame enthusiast.
 
reech said:
I'm a bit of an 8-bit/mame enthusiast.
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Here Here! That's exactly what I would want a console for. Especially an opensource console that I can mod/hack/tinker with.

I just hope they bring out a v3 with a bigger screen, then I'm sold.
 
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