On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Olivier MARTIN wrote:
> GameBoy was really technicaly weak against its competitors
> but the handheld console was cheaper, having long baterries life....
Well, I suppose it depends on what you mean by "technically weak."
Battery life is just another part of a device's technology
(technological cleverness can extend battery life by a lot), and
if one item has a 22 hour battery life and the other a two hour
battery life, well, that makes the first technologically superior
in that respect, doesn't it.
I agree that for game consoles, content is king. If you don't have
good games, you're screwed. For phones, not so much, since so much
content is shared. (I get the same i-Mode and i-Appli content on
all of the 503 models, for example.) If one model, such as the Sony
502iWM, has more content, it's a bonus, but it doesn't compare to
game consoles because playing games is pretty much all you can do
with those.
As far as technological superiority, well, I think it comes down
to picking the right areas to be technologically superior in. For
example, I happen to have just bought the oldest, least "technologically
superior" 503 model of phone currently available, by many lights.
It's only got a 256 colour non-TFT display (vs. the usual 4096
colour TFT display), has a slow CPU, etc. etc. On the other hand,
it's 20% lighter than the next lightest model, which to my mind is
a better technological advance.
cjs
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Received on Thu Mar 14 04:55:30 2002