Deluxe Handhelds Try Hard to Justify the Price
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When &#36;100 buys a pocket-sized gadget that can store decades' worth of appointments and addresses -- and &#36;200 gets you one that also serves as a digital photo album and MP3 player -- why would anybody want to spend &#36;400 or &#36;500 on a new Palm or Pocket PC handheld?
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Designed for schoolchildren in developing countries, these inexpensive, stripped-down portables are drawing lots of interest from the gadget set.
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The sub-$200 PictureMate Dash and PictureMate Zoom are both shipping.
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In an effort to take advantage of the online Black Friday sales currently going on which mirror the in-store sales, I tried to cruise over to Walmart.com and see if I could purchase the Sony PSP for the advertised price of $169. Because of the popularity of online shopping and Wal*Mart television ads publicizing the ability [...]
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Smaller, lighter and cheaper is the order of the day for laptop vendors as they struggle to find new types of devices that will appeal to users.
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Restrictive hardware and convoluted rights management crimp consumer choices.
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Sony has set a price of 19,800 yen (US$186) for its new multimedia handheld games console, the Playstation Portable -- a much lower price than analysts had predicted.
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TOKYO - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) will roll out in Japan a handheld video game system on Dec. 12 called PlayStation Portable (PSP), priced at Â¥19,800, or about $185.
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More bangs per buck but still pricey
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It is said that one of the hottest gadgets of 2005 will be the new PlayStation Portable console from Sony. The hottest competitor of the PSP will be Nintendo&#39;s DS.
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Posts on Craigslist offer a host of options for those unable or unwilling to wait in line for the coveted device.
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Sony is not exactly going mega with the launch of its handheld gaming system named PSP on December 12. Instead, critics already fear that getting hand on one would be a very tough affair.
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But LCDs, consumer electronics are tough
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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Treo smartphone maker Palm Inc.   could bring a buyer a decade's worth of digital  assistant design and mobile phone know-how, but at a hefty  price for a company no longer viewed as cutting edge.
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Sonyâs PlayStation console has been so popular that it feels strange that PSP is their first attempt at the handheld gaming market.
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As millions buy increasingly powerful cell phones, many companies are racing to develop video games to take advantage of the newfound portability.