Taking Things Apart

Gizmondo Hardware Specification

Platform
- Samsung ARM9 400Mhz processor
- GoForce 3D 4500 NVIDIA graphics accelerator
- Removable battery

Display
- 2.8-inch TFT colour screen, 320 x 240 pixels, 16-bit, 65,000 colors
- Digital camera, 640 x 480 (VGA)

Connectivity
- Bluetooth class 2, for multi-player gaming
- GSM tri-band, GPRS network link, for wide-area network gaming
- SMS texting, MMS Multimedia messaging (pictures)
- E-mail
- GPS chip, for location based services
- USB 1.1
- SD / MMC flash card reader

Ok - Mea culpa - I did doctor the above specs ;)

I removed any of the references to the software running on it ( its called WinCE for a reason y'know )..

 So : Admit it - if you had the above platform, running Linux, with direct access to the hardware listed above, you would think it was really kinda Shiny..

For historical purposes only, there is an archive of the original Gizmondo website  here .