Tag Archives: handheld

Insert Coin: $250 Casetop turns your smartphone into a laptop (video)

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In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line.

We keep hearing about how handheld devices …


Toshiba Canvio Connect drive backs up mobile devices through Pogoplug

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While we’re used to connected hard drives that share their contents with phones and tablets, the reverse isn’t common — why don’t many of these drives safeguard our mobile content from the start? Toshiba is as baffled as we are, so it’s launching…


Nintendo now selling refurbished DSi XL and 3DS units for $100 and up

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It’s easy for us to go shopping for a refurbished Nintendo handheld at stores and auction houses, but not if we’re looking for a huge bargain: small discounts and dodgy quality often make it wiser to buy new instead. Nintendo has just offered us s…


Pink Nintendo 3DS XL misses Easter, arrives in the UK later this Spring

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If the adorable patterns on the Animal Crossing special edition 3DS XL didn’t tug at your heart (and wallet) strings, perhaps this English rose will. Set to arrive in the UK on May 31st, there’s no software tie-in to mark the occasion, just the vi…


Sony announces Jak and Daxter Trilogy coming to PS Vita this June

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Despite what the sales figures might imply, the general consensus is that, for the most part, the PlayStation Vita’s a neat portable console — although some still argue Sony could do a little more to give its precious handheld a boost when it com…


Sega Pluto prototype console surfaces: the Saturn / NetLink mishmash that never was

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So, first things first. Sega actually shipped some pretty insane gear. A handheld console that used full-size Genesis cartridges? Check. A sophisticated Tamagotchi that our own editor-in-chief developed games for? Yessir. Something called a “32X” tha…


Circle Pad Pro accessory will ruin your Nintendo 3DS XL’s silhouette for $20

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Is it worth adding a lop-sided $20 piece of plastic to your already-substantial 3DS XL in order to gain a second analog thumb stick? It’s a good question and finally one worth asking now that Nintendo has announced that the currently Japan-only Circl…


3DS still outpacing predecessor in comparative sales, says Nintendo

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It took a hefty price cut and a holiday sales boost to coax the 3DS out of its predecessor’s shadow, but these days Nintendo’s autostereoscopic handheld is doing just fine. NOA President Reggie Fils-Aime says it isn’t slowing down either, revealing t…


Luigi edition Nintendo 3DS LL gives Mario’s brother his due, but only in Japan

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There must be some kind of unstated rule that Nintendo can never give the US a special edition handheld without releasing some Japan-focused models. While the company was busy promising Americans an Animal Crossing 3DS XL of their very own, it was al…


Detune’s Korg M01D for Nintendo 3DS sparks nostalgia, lands in May (video)

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This isn’t the first time a Korg synth has been re-imagined in software form, it’s not even the first (or second) time on Nintendo’s DS. But, when Detune releases its M01D for the handheld console, it’ll spark more than a little nostalgia for synth e…