GPX2 Verses PSP

Sales of the Playstation portable are already looking grim, with the console holding about 25% of the Japanese handheld market. Up against the Nintendo DS, GBA SP and GB Micro, Sony are already finding it hard to maintain its sales. But up until now, Sony fanboys have always boasted about the PSP's ability to play movies and music. While the N-gamers argue that the same fuctions can be performed on the DS at a lower cost (using add-ons), it is true that the PSP produces better quality media, though at the cost of low battery life (pun intended).

Well, here comes the new GPX2:



This new portable media centre is pretty amazing. Here's some info:
- Has dual core 'ARM920T, ARM940T' CPU
- Plays games, movies, music, photos, ebooks.
- Has a high resolution 3.5" screen
- Plays MAME, SNES, Genesis and PC Engine ROMs
- Ability to upgrade firmware from official website.
- High speed USB 2.0 transfer for files
- Only uses 2 AA batteries, but still giving about 8 hours of movie playback and up to 14 hours of mp3 music.
- Comes pre-installed with Linux

Specs taken from official site:
- Dual CPU Cores ARM920T : Host processor ARM940T : Video Coprocessor
- NAND Flash Memory 64 Mega Byte
- Dimension 143.6mm* 82.9mm*34mm
- Weight 161 Gram (Without Battery)
- RAM SDRAM 64 Mega Byte
- SD flash card storage
- O/S Linux
- Display * 3.5" TFT LCD (Hardware : 16.7 Million Colors / Software: 260,000 Colors)
- 320*240(QVGA) resolution
- MPEG 4, Dvix 3.11,4x,5x, and Higher, XVID, WMV(7,8,9 Later On) Playback.
- MP3,OGG,WMA(Later On)
- MAX video resolution 720*480 at 30fps
- Bit Rate Video Max: 2500 Kbps ~ Audio Max: 384Kbps
- Caption SMI
- TV-OUT Support
- Stereo(L+R) audio
- JPG, BMP, PCX, GIF, PNG images

The console costs around 179 U.S dollars, about $240 A.U. Pretty decent seeing as it can play multiple roms, has high quality video playback etc. Though it lacks on game graphics due to being an emulator, you can consider it a "4 in 1" handheld console.

What do you guys think? Does this thing have a chance against the PSP in terms of portable media? It is certainly very powerful and efficient in terms of video playback. If you buy two 2000 mAH rechargable batteries, I reckon you can watch movies for up to 15 hours before the need to recharge. Quite a nifty gadget indeed :P.

Btw, the console should be about to launch in the States, there are no details on an Australian release date though.