The weeks are just flying by, time change is this weekend so I hope you aren’t late for anything. The holidays will be here before we know it. This has been another busy week in the gadget world. HTC has confirmed that Android 2.0 smartphones are incoming and the HTC Dragon is the likely first Android 2.0 device to come from HTC.
We’ve been waiting for a black Nintendo Wii to spread beyond Japanese shores for months now, and the company has gone one step toward that goal by at least promising the menacing console for a European launch. As of November 6th, UK gamers will be able to pick up the black Wii – complete with matching Wii Remote, Nunchuk and MotionPlus peripherals – along with copies of Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort.
Did’t I just finish writing a week in review? That time again already? Ok, so here we go! Asus’ Eee netbook roadmap leaked this week showing us some of the new machines Asus has up its sleeves and tipping us off on the netbooks already on the market that will be going extinct soon. SanDisk got all official and stuff with a new low-end MP3 player called the Sansa Clip+. The thing gains a microSD card slot to accommodate that big bag of fail known as slotMusic.
When that sinister looking black Wii console showed up there were many geeks who were excited about getting the console in a color other than the white we have been offered. It wasn’t long before we found out that the black Wii wouldn’t come to America.
Whew! The week is over already and this has been another busy one here at SlashGear with more new announcements and gear than we can shake a stick at. Things kicked off this week with a video of the LG BL40 Black Label feature phone hitting the Web. This was a good thing since we hate teaser campaigns. One of the cooler things from early in the week was the Fujifilm announcement of the FinePix Real 3D digital camera coming this year. The only downside is the camera is about $600 and the digital frame required to see the photos goes for another $200.
What a difference a color makes. The humble Nintendo Wii, usually placid and undemanding in its standard white casing, gets a shot of danger, excitement and devil-may-care panache in its black Japanese variant, but that sort of illicit color-thrill is obviously far too much for the US to cope with. Nintendo have confirmed that they have “no plans to have other colors of Wii in the US.”
Nintendo have announced that they will begin selling a black Wii in Japan come August, shortly after their new red DSi goes on sale there in July. The black console will be the first time the Wii has been available in a color other than white, though Nintendo did initially demonstrate it in various hues.
Nintendo UK has just released a list of the upcoming DS and Wii titles for the first quarter of 2009. This list has plenty of interesting games on the way, including a game designed to help keep players fit called “Walk with me! Do you know your walking routine?” just in time for our quilt filled new years resolution to get healthy. Walk with me! Even brings the competitive nature of video games to keep players motivated to stay healthy.
A lot of us are going to be chipping away at the old Christmas list in just a few weeks. Some items are going to a little harder to find than others. One item that is still in very high demand is Nintendo’s Wii gaming console. The questions is will there be enough for this years holiday season?
Nintendo has announced its new DSi, the update to the DS Lite, at the company’s Fall presentation in Japan earlier today. As expected, it features the same dual-display clamshell layout as the DS (both larger at 3.25-inches, with the bottom display remaining a touchscreen) with additional media features: an external 3-megapixel camera, an internal video-call camera and an SD slot, together with internal storage. The removal of the GBA cartridge slot has meant the DSi can be 12-percent thinner than the previous DS Lite.
More details, including the DSi Shop and a video overview of the DSi, after the cut
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