I've noticed that Palm Pilot type devices with color screens have been dropping in price this Holiday season. I'm seeing alot of them at $199.99, and some of them even less than that.
Staples has a deal on a Sony Clie SJ22 for $119.98 after a rebate. It uses the Palm OS 4.1 operatiing system. It has a 320 x 220 transflective color display. The downside, is that it only has 16MB memory, but it does have an expansion slot for the memory stick, to increase that memory.
The Palm Tungsten E is $198.99. It has the Palm OS v5.2.1, and 32MB of built in Ram.
The Viewsonic V36 Pocket PC is $299.99, but it has a $100 rebate on it. So it also fits in the $199 and less category. This one uses the MS Pocket PC 2003 operating system. It's also got a built in digital camera, although of course it's a crappy digital camera. 32MB of Ram built in.
Anyways, I'm not trying to be a Staples sales rep or anything, but I remember when these devices used to cost $500 or $400. I also remember some guy playing a really cool version of Links on a Pocket PC. It looked pretty damn good to me.
What I was wondering though, is can you run any emulators on these? Can you play NES games? TG-16 games? Genny games? Anything?
Or am I better off keeping my $200, and waiting for Sony's new portable gaming machine.
That Sony Clie for $120 after rebate is a pretty damn good deal though. It seems to have the same color screen as the rest of them. Yet it's only $120. Not a bad deal at all, if it can play some cool games.
As for the GameBoy advance and the SP, I'm just not into them. The color screen is just a little bit too small for my tastes. I want a machine with a screen the size of a Palm Pilot.