I got a Sony PSP on Saturday as a birthday gift from my wife. Originally, I wanted to get a Nintendo DS Lite. But, the DS Lites have been out of stock practically everywhere since Christmas.
The DS would be cool because it uses a touch pen, has two screens and is very small. The games tend to be geared more toward kids, however. My wife's coworker cued me in to this hardware hack for the DS, which I was thinking of using to play music and videos. It also provided organizer software so you could use the DS as a PDA. The hack would also allow programmers to write their own "homebrew" software for the DS. Very cool, but now that I think about it, I wouldn't have time to learn the DS hardware architecture and then write C programs with the DS libraries and tool chain.
My coworker later informed me that the PSP has built-in support for playing multimedia. It also has better graphics, games geared for more mature audiences and has built-in WAN support for Web browsing.
There are too many details to mention here concerning the two systems. The funny thing is that after I decided to get the PSP over the DS, I went to the electronics section of a Target store we happened to be at and saw that they had a bunch of DS consoles but no PSP consoles. I ended up getting it at a GameStop in the South Bay Galleria that same day.
The PSP is a neat toy (that actually came out a few years ago). I loaded a bunch of audio files, photos and some videos (mostly of Emma). I had to use a tool to convert the video to the correct mp4 format. So far, I got to play Disgaea (a PSP game that I bought at the same time) for about 1.5 hours. Not much play time yet, but I'm sure it'll come in handy sometimes.
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