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Booboo Is Off To China

Our main man Booboo has just announced that he’s off to China tomorrow to meet the people from ChinaChip. “I’m leaving tomorrow to HK/China, where I’ll be meeting the ChinaChip people. Will be back in a week, but will try to update as time permits on anything relevant to dingux on the GA330.” For anyone …

The A330 Has Landed. $98 At Dealextreme.

Just a quick heads up for those waiting on a mainstream store to start selling this thing, it’s finally available at Dealextreme for a very reasonable $98. Only in white, for now.

Gemei A330 Is Now Available, Sort Of.

Well release date in China was the 3rd of November, but none of the big stores like Chinavasion or Dealextreme have stock yet. Why? Well, if I was to hazard a guess I’d say that the export version requires an English manual and different packaging which is still being worked on. Won’t be long, I …

PSP Phone Knocked Off Before It Even Exists. $110 From Lightake.

In true Chinese style, the only-just-announced and yet to be released PSP Phone has already fallen foul of a sneaky gang of cloners in Shenzhen.

What is the Dingoo A320E? Speculate Away…

Over on the Dingoonity forums markzhu520 (from dingoo.hk) has announced that yet another device is due to be released in time for Christmas. His posts are either deliberately vague or perhaps it’s a less than perfect grasp of the English language, either way details are not forthcoming. No pics, no renders, no specs, nada. So …

It Came and Went (Update: Pre-orders Are Open, Shipping November)

When was the last piece of tech that you were interested in released on time? I don’t think I’ve ever been priveleged enough to experience this phenomenon. In keeping with an age old tradition, Gemei have well and truly missed their 15th October release date for their new machine.

Why is that?.. I hear you ask. Well apparently it’s due to some “technical difficulties”. Whether that’s hardware or software is anyone’s guess but we do have some progress to report – things are plodding along! Behold – The final retail packaging for the A330!

Word is that they need just a couple of weeks to iron out said difficulties before it hits the stores. That should take us into an early November release date…

Read on for some pics of the rather wonderful packaging…

Panasonic Ventures Into New Territory – The Jungle

Well this is an unlikely and rather surprising turn up for the books. Japanese firm Panasonic (or their newly founded offshoot company ‘Panasonic Cloud Entertainment’) are reportedly working on a new handheld device with the sole purpose of playing MMO games on the go. The machine is said to run on Linux, have a super high resolution screen and a full keyboard as well as gaming controls of some sort.

Booboo is back!

Those waiting feverishly for the Gemei A330 will be very glad to hear these 2 pieces of news. The author of Dingux (Linux for the Dingoo) is back on the scene after a hiatus of almost a year, and is ready for action. Poised ready to work on the Dingux improvements front, he is also …

A330 Release Date… (Update: Detailed Chinese Review from TGBus)

Just a quick post to say that the release date for the A330 has apparently changed. What I can gather from reading the Gemeitech forums (translating from Chinese to English via Google) and from checking the thread over at dingoonity is that the 18th was the date that beta testers got theirs. Release to the …

The Letcool N350JP, Imitation is the Highest Form of Flattery?

What happens if you rip a DS Lite in half? Well aside from breaking it, you end up with something resembling the Letcool N350JP. And what a handsome devil it is too.