Just when Dell Axim x51v owners started thinking of themselves as lords of the VGA Pocket PC game kingdom, something else has popped up on the technological horizon.It's enough to give Axim carriers like myself pause.
Laptop and PDA users tend to surreptitiously check out each other's equipment. Each has pros and cons when it comes to gaming.
The pros to the former are obvious, regardless of any increased risk of second-degree genital burns sparked by Sony battery recalls as referenced in an earlier Pocket PC overclocking and Sony battery recall article.
Engadget blogged of the specs of the HTC Universal, supposedly laying the CPU smackdown on the Windows Mobile 5 smartphone set.
The 'mini-laptop' factor appears a bit clumsy to me, and just a bit too large for the quick Axim x51v game on the go.
Nevertheless, this mean device will leisurely eat the Palm Treo 750v for breakfast.
It operates at a puttering 300Mhz albeit utilizing Windows Mobile 5, while the HTC Universal races at a relatively blistering but cumbersome 520Mhz with a VGA screen.
Just when we thought we had to choose between bulky or relatively sluggish handheld gaming, a Pocket PC Thoughts poster revealed that there is a tinier side to mini-laptop form factor gaming.
The Omni is scheduled for release later this year or early next year in an obvious attempt to mollify the naysayers like myself decrying bulky handheld gaming with a thinner form factor.
In the interim, I'll be firing off yet another round of PocketGBA emulator gaming with Ultimate Spiderman on the latest v060203 release of this Gameboy Advance emulator for the PPC.
With Pocket PC fare like this, I see no need to budge from my relatively lofty PDA game perch at the moment.
