From the Front Lines

We laughed off the quick tricks
and the old men with limp dicks -- The Bus Mall, The Decemberists

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This entry is coming to you from the new device, the nintendo DSi. Haven't heard of it? Well it's a lot like the initial psp's; I say that because I haven't touched the things (as much as I've wanted to) since I sold my initial one back in 2006. At any rate, it does music and picrure playback and has an SD card slot, all the things the psp was capable of. The diference, however, is that it can take its own pictures via 2 built in cameras, that's a whole two more than the psp, and one more than the iPhone. It can save these pictures to the standard sized SD card, which accepts high capacity and mini-adapters: I have a 2gig mini SD in mine, using an adapter right now. This uniqueness of course allows for the transfer of pictures to your computer. Interesting to note is that the outer camera is 3 megapixels, and the iner one is .3, both with a resolution of 640x480 [nintendo-dsi.org/info]; take it from me, these photos aren't half bad.

Furthermore, the new DSi has 133megahertz ARD processor and a now 16mb RAM - a vast improvement over the original DS. This is mostly used for the editing of photos and music, as well as the Opera-based browser that I am using right now. The future of hand-held gaming for both Nintendo and Sony are far from diving head-first ibto the digital ranges of the iPhone, but there is hope that a slow but steady entrance will come. I'll see about uploading some of my pictures once I get the chance, and bloggong more about this, but as for now - mostly due to an injury to my touch-screen hand - I'm signing off.