PS Vita Gets New Skype App

Andrew Grush — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:30:25 +0000

In the last few years smartphone and tablet gaming has risen to a point that many question whether or not a dedicated gaming portable is a dying animal, despite this, Sony released its PS Vita earlier this year. It’s about the size of a cellphone but it lacks the ability to make calls and doesn’t have nearly as many apps as a smartphone, though the number is growing.

One new app that could potentially be a game-changer is the new Skype app that is heading to the mobile gaming unit. Using the power of 3G or Wi-Fi, you can make and receive phone calls, making this device even more like a cellphone than ever before. For those with the 3G model, this pretty much means you can make and take calls anywhere, which is very good news for fans of the platform. Will the PS Vita be a success or will it have more modest results in the market, like the PSP? It’s hard to call at this point, but the hardware and potential capabilities are certainly impressive in the Vita, to say the least.

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Chinese Vita-Look-Alike Android Gaming Handheld

Andrew Grush — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:26:18 +0000

China, the land of cheap electronic clones, brings us yet another some-what interesting device to the table, the Yinlips “Android Smart Game Player“. Essentially it is a PS Vita-looking Android device that is intended for gaming and comes pre-loaded with a bunch of emulators and ROMs from the days of the NES, all the way up to the N64.

As far as the hardware is concerned, it’s nothing spectacular featuring a 1.2GHz single core processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, and WIFI. It also sports HDMI and a built-in camera. It runs some form of Android, but we aren’t sure which version since at one point the company’s page says it runs “Froyo” but at another point it says “Gingerbread”, so your guess is as good as ours.

Many other sources have scoffed at this device pretty hard, but as far as I’m concerned there is at least a little merit to such a device, no matter how cheap and blatant of a rip-off it is. If something like this hit the US and Canadian market and managed to keep a price point of under $99 (like $50-$85), I honestly could say I wouldn’t mind a cheap emulator system that I could also browse the net from. No, it not a killer device and certainly nothing to call home about, but at least in China I imagine there is a potential market for such a handheld device.

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