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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With

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Speaker 1: and welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Pallette

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Speaker 1: and I am the tech editor at how stuff works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Sitting across from me, as always is senior

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Speaker 1: writer Jonathan Stricklin. What's shake and bacon? All right? Then,

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Speaker 1: I think we, uh, we're gonna get into some games today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna start off with a little listener mail. This listen, Now,

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Speaker 1: I didn't I'm mean to go all Casey case in there.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where that came from. This listener mail

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Speaker 1: comes from Mikey, who says I'm getting the new PSP

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Speaker 1: from my A T and T iPhone. Mikey sent this,

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Speaker 1: by the way back in October, which probably means that

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Speaker 1: portable or PSP is a the newest venture from Sony

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Speaker 1: in the I mean the line itself is newest venture

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Speaker 1: from Sony in the the portable gaming market. Now, there

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Speaker 1: have been many, many, many many many portable games over

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Speaker 1: the over the years, dating back to the nineteen eighties

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Speaker 1: electronic games, I should say, you know, I wasna say, hey,

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Speaker 1: baseball is pretty portable. Yeah, I need THEE and all.

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Speaker 1: But no, no, I I remember somewhat fondly the days

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Speaker 1: of the Mattel electronic football with the little blinking Yes,

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Speaker 1: other blinking red light to this other red light, which

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Speaker 1: no good with sports. Uh, you can just a receiver

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Speaker 1: receiver se different people might. They were all just blinking

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Speaker 1: everything I know about football I learned from those really

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Speaker 1: that's that's talking about the early early days of portable gaming.

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Speaker 1: And of course for a really long time, one particular

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Speaker 1: had on its packaging UM a little label saying that

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Speaker 1: there was support for the PSP four thousand, which, as

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Speaker 1: not officially exist. So some people were wondering if this

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Speaker 1: was perhaps an a leak, an accidental leak that indicates that, yes,

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Speaker 1: Sony does have a new device I planned and has

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Speaker 1: told developers, but has not revealed it to the public.

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Speaker 1: Since then, the manufacturer has said, no, this was a mistake.

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Speaker 1: Don't draw any conclusions. UM, So we don't know right

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Speaker 1: now for sure. This was just simply a type of

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Speaker 1: where someone was typing in, Okay, well we support the

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Speaker 1: PSP one thousand, two thousand, three thousand, Is there a

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Speaker 1: four thousand? I don't know, better put it in okay,

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Speaker 1: or if it was that's one thousand, two thousands, three thousand,

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Speaker 1: four thousands. Oh crap. They haven't announced the four thousand yet.

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Speaker 1: We're not really sure. Um. I wouldn't draw too many

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Speaker 1: conclusions about this, uh I think. I mean, if there

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Speaker 1: is a four thousand coming out, I don't know when

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Speaker 1: Sony would announce it. I mean, normally you use things

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Speaker 1: like E three, that's when they announced the PSP GO.

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Speaker 1: You would use an event like that to announce a

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Speaker 1: new product. But that's not until next June. So yes,

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Speaker 1: and you wouldn't want to sabotage your holiday sales. But again,

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Speaker 1: they're selling the PSP three thousand concurrently with the PSP GO,

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Speaker 1: so they're already kind of sabotaging their own sales. Well.

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Speaker 1: The other thing to consider, too, is that the while

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Speaker 1: the original PSP came out in two thousand five, um,

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Speaker 1: the successive versions of that have been coming out about

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Speaker 1: every year for the last couple of years. So they

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Speaker 1: can be a surprise to see the four thousand at

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Speaker 1: E three this year. I mean, they've been making essentially

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Speaker 1: incremental improvements on the original design, better video performance. I've

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Speaker 1: heard that some of the things they did for the

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Speaker 1: screen recently, just made it a little more jagged. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't have a PSP three thousand, so I can't

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Speaker 1: really make that that statement from firsthand experience. That was

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Speaker 1: just from a review I read it. Then when I

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Speaker 1: see them do. Yeah, I haven't worked up the nerve

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Speaker 1: to actually mug someone for one, but you know, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's on the list. And something else we should point out,

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Speaker 1: just very quickly before we wrap up. We were running

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Speaker 1: out of time here, but uh, Interestingly, one of the

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Speaker 1: maybe one of the reasons why the PSP GO came out, actually,

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Speaker 1: Sonny has a new a new competitor, not just Nintendo,

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Speaker 1: there's a new competitor on the scene, and that would

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Speaker 1: be Apple. Yes, the iPhone and iPod Touch have become

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Speaker 1: legitimate gaming platforms, and these these little games that are

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Speaker 1: coming out for both the iPhone and the iPod Touch

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Speaker 1: that are going for you know, maybe just a few

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Speaker 1: dollars a pop, are posing a legitimate threat to other

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Speaker 1: handheld gaming devices, which you know, traditionally their games are

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Speaker 1: in the twenty dollar range. Yes, and with the UH

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Speaker 1: the additional application source, with the Apple App Store model,

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Speaker 1: other UH providers are starting to get on board with

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Speaker 1: that too, uh, And I have the feeling that smartphones

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Speaker 1: in general from all kinds of providers are going to

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Speaker 1: be competition for the dedicated UM gaming devices, and Nintendo

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Speaker 1: probably being the one in the most jeopardy because it

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Speaker 1: does it is more geared specifically towards gaming. The PSP

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Speaker 1: is more flexible, which gives you an opportunity to uh,

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Speaker 1: to enjoy that. But the thing is, Um, you're right

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Speaker 1: because a lot of the games that I've seen running

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Speaker 1: thirty and forty dollars for the dedicated gaming platforms are

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Speaker 1: ten dollars and less in the Apple App Store, right,

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Speaker 1: So that might be a reason for the PSP go

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Speaker 1: as well as a way for Sony to kind of

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Speaker 1: develop a a gaming system that will have its own

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Speaker 1: exclusive games that you won't find on the PSP three

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Speaker 1: thousand or on um D format. But they're just gonna

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Speaker 1: go for for a lower price and be more competitive

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Speaker 1: with the iPhone and iPod touch games. And then of

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Speaker 1: course there's the as we talked about with the Zoom,

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Speaker 1: Microsoft not giving phone features to the Zoom. It's possible,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Sony has the partnership with Ericsson, but I

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Speaker 1: don't know that you'll see the two converge. Well, I think,

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Speaker 1: I think the problem with that is you would, especially

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Speaker 1: when you look at the form factor. You know what

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Speaker 1: happens when you put an actual phone in the PSB

508
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Speaker 1: you get the engage and that thing was awful. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, Nokia also had is a its own app

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Speaker 1: store working up. So yeah, all right, Well, so that

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Speaker 1: that's kind of our our take on the PSP. It's

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Speaker 1: a a nefty gaming system. I mean it really it's

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Speaker 1: it packs a big wallop in a small package. And

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Speaker 1: h I've been really impressed by the games that I've

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Speaker 1: played on it. Um I think, uh, I think, I

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Speaker 1: think it's a really decent system. I I would not

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Speaker 1: hesitate to go out and buy one myself if I

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Speaker 1: didn't have a wife who would slap me upside the

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Speaker 1: head if I went and bought another gaming system. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, it is not Now that they have the

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Speaker 1: PS three slim, that's not that much less. I've been

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Speaker 1: trying to I've been trying to convince her that the

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Speaker 1: PlayStation three is actually a Blu Ray player and that

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Speaker 1: that's why we should get one. So far, she ain't

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Speaker 1: buying because, unfortunately for me, I'm married a very smart woman.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, that wraps that up. So why don't we, uh,

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Speaker 1: why don't we finish this podcast with a little more

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Speaker 1: listener mail listless for mail comes from Brian, and Brian says, Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: I've been a long time listener and I just wanted

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Speaker 1: to say that I really enjoyed the Electronics Theory podcast.

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Speaker 1: I hope your head healed quickly, Jonathan, Well, thanks, Brian. Yes,

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Speaker 1: my head did heal quickly. The scar is almost completely gone. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the concern. Yeah. I shave my head and

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Speaker 1: occasionally I take a chunk out of it. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's just a self loathing thing. I'm working through it.

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing someone about it. Uh. Anyway, I think he

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Speaker 1: going to explode at the end of that podcast. Oh

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Speaker 1: did it? Yes? Today? Oh? Well that Unfortunately, I'm still

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Speaker 1: recovering from. Um. Yes, some some wounds never heal, Brian,

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Speaker 1: some wounds never heal. So with that, let's wrap up

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Speaker 1: another episode of tech Stuff. I hope you've enjoyed the episode.

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Speaker 1: We do have a great article as Chris said on

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Speaker 1: the site written by Ed Garbanowski about how the PSPT works,

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Speaker 1: I recommend you go and check that out. We have

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Speaker 1: lots of other articles about other video game systems, so

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