|
The Gizmondo is a 128 bit handheld gaming console with GPRS and GPS technology, produced by Tiger Telematics. The Gizmondo includes a GPS module for in-car navigation (coming fall 2005) also used for multiplayer real time games used to track movements of your opponents. The Gizmondo also holds within its small interior a VGA camera mounted on the rear. It can send SMS/MMS messages, voice calls and email (coming fall 2005), play MP3/WAV/MIDI music, play WMV/MPEG4 video, and a variety of 3D games. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1608x969, 152 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1608x969, 152 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
A handheld game console is a lightweight, portable, electronic device for playing video games. ...
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a mobile data service available to users of GSM mobile phones. ...
Over fifty GPS satellites such as this NAVSTAR have been launched since 1978. ...
The Gizmondo logo. ...
A received SMS being announced on a Nokia phone. ...
MMS may stand for: Multimedia Messaging System (mobile phones) Methodology Management System (business process) Microsoft Metadirectory Services Microsoft Media Services (data streaming protocol) Multimedia Solutions (T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH) This page concerning a three letter acronym is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might...
MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format invented and standardised in 1991 by a team of engineers working in the framework of the ISO/IEC MPEG audio committee under the chairmanship of Professor Hans Musmann (University of Hannover - Germany). ...
WAV (or WAVE), short for WAVE form audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. ...
Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ...
Windows Media Video (WMV) is a generic name for the set of streaming video technologies developed by Microsoft. ...
MPEG-4, introduced in 1998, is the designation for a group of audio and video coding standards agreed upon by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). ...
The rewrite of this article is being devised at Talk:3D computer graphics/Temp. ...
Releases Gizmondo was released in the United Kingdom on March 19, 2005, initially priced at £229. However, the price of the unit has since fallen to £129, if the user agrees to be sent a maximum of three 10 to 30 second advertisements per day through the Gizmondo Smart Ads service. These adverts will often include offers at the end of them, for example coupons, or free music downloads and will only appear when the user returns back to the main menu and not interupt any game or media playing. The device is due for release in several mainland Europe countries on September 30th, while the North American launch is scheduled for October 11th. A catalog of over 90 games are in production for the Gizmondo with more added monthly, and it is predicted that at least 30 new games will have been released by December. The games line up includes; The Great Escape, Age of Empires, Tron 2.0, Conflict Vietnam as well as many others. The games portfolio is being increased through Tiger's recent purchase of Warthog and publishing deals made with SCi, Electronic Arts, UbiSoft and other major publishers. March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ...
2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A coupon is a ticket or document that can be exchanged for a financial discount on a product. ...
September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 92 days remaining, as the final day of September. ...
December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...
For the Married. ...
Age of Empires, abbreviated to AoE, is a history-based real-time strategy computer game developed by Rick Goodman at Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft, released in 1997. ...
Tron 2. ...
Warthog Games Limited was a UK-based video game developer, it is now known as Gizmondo Europe. ...
SCI may stand for: Sales Curve Interactive, a video game developer Scalable Coherent Interconnect Science Citation Index Sensitive Compartmented Information Serial Communication Interface Service Civil International Sierras Creative Interpreter Society of Chemical Industry Spinal cord injury Structure Conservation Index Science (as in comp sci or bio sci) String Cheese...
Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) is a leading video game developer and publisher. ...
Ubisoft Entertainment (formerly Ubi Soft) is a computer and video game publisher and developer headquarted in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France. ...
The Gizmondo is currently available from the Gizmondo flagship store on London's Regent Street, also via Gizmondo's online shop, and other highstreet and online retailers. The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...
The Quadrant at the bottom of Regent Street Regent Street is a major shopping street and thoroughfare in Londons West End. ...
Functionality and specifications
 The Tiger Telematics Gizmondo The Gizmondo can play games, music tracks and movies, take and store digital photos and be used like a mobile phone to send text, multimedia and e-mail messages, voice calls will be coming via a bluetooth headset due out in the fall. Tiger have recently begun demonstrating augmented reality-based games using the Gizmondo's digital camera. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
GAMES Magazine is a United States based magazine devoted to games published by GAMES Publications, a division of Kappa Publishing Group. ...
Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia Science of Music...
For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of...
A photograph (often just called a photo) is an image (or a representation of that on e. ...
In language, text is a broad term for something that contains words to express something. ...
Multimedia is the use of several different media to convey information (text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity). ...
Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
This article is about the Bluetooth wireless specification. ...
Headset may refer to: headset (earphone, headphone) headset (bicycle part) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real world and computer generated data. ...
A SiPix digital camera next to a matchbox to show scale. ...
In the UK, the phone service to enable people to send messages is being provided by pre-pay Vodafone accounts bundled in with the device. It can also access the Global Positioning System for use as a navigation aid. There are also plans to support a variety of location-based services, for example. GPRS and Bluetooth wireless connections are intended to provide multiplayer gaming. Vodafones corporate logo is the outline of a SIM card Vodafone is a multinational mobile phone operator with headquarters in Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom and Düsseldorf, Germany. ...
Over fifty GPS satellites such as this NAVSTAR have been launched since 1978. ...
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a mobile data service available to users of GSM mobile phones. ...
This article is about the Bluetooth wireless specification. ...
The Gizmondo's Camera also includes an added Gyroscopic Function. It will be used in FPS, action-adventure, and puzzle games. In FPS games The Gizmondo is turned instead of using a thumbstick or joystick. A gyroscope is a device which demonstrates the principle of conservation of angular momentum, in physics. ...
Gizmondo is powered by a 400 MHz ARM9 processor and has a 2.8 inch 320x240 pixels TFT screen and an NVIDIA 128 bit GoForce 3D 4500 GPU featuring a programmable pixel shader, hardware transform engine and 1280KB of embedded memory. The GPU was added relatively late in the system's design, causing some delays for launch titles and the system, as they were redesigned. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a major supplier of graphics processors (graphics processing units, GPUs), graphics cards, and media and communications devices for PCs and game consoles (Xbox). ...
GPU can stand for: Graphics processing unit, a special microprocessor used in computer graphics hardware The State Political Directorate (Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie), the name of the secret police in the USSR in one of the stages of its development Global Processing Unit, a generic name for a distributed computing project...
The system's appearance and ergonomics were created by industrial designer Rick Dickinson, who worked in a similar role on various Sinclair products such as the ZX Spectrum. Industrial design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of products may be improved. ...
Sinclair Research Ltd was a home computer company founded by Clive Sinclair in Cambridge, England. ...
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a small home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. ...
Competition The Gizmondo competes for marketshare with handheld consoles by Nintendo (the DS and Game Boy Advance) and Sony (the PlayStation Portable). It has a comparatively small market profile with little visible advertising. Nintendo (Japanese: ä»»å¤©å ‚; (NASDAQ: NTDOF), (TYO: 7974)) was originally founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese playing card game of the same name. ...
The Nintendo DS is a dual-screen portable handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. ...
The Game Boy line is the best-selling handheld to date The Game Boy Advance (GBA) is a handheld videogame console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo. ...
Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) (TYO: 6758), NYSE: SNE is a global consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. ...
The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console and a product of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan. ...
See also This is a list of games on the Gizmondo handheld game console. ...
The Nintendo DS is a dual-screen portable handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. ...
The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console and a product of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan. ...
Nokia Corporation NYSE: NOK is one of the worlds largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers. ...
Nokia N-Gage phone (original version) The Nokia N-Gage is a mobile telephone and handheld game system based on the Nokia Series 60 platform. ...
External links |
Feeds |
Contact