Your PSP can be a travel guide - bit-tech.net Forums

Da Dego · 1st Sep 2006, 16:15

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/09..._travel_guide/

DXR_13KE · 1st Sep 2006, 19:26

not for me, to cheap for my pockets.

Swafeman · 1st Sep 2006, 20:19

Id sooner read a book than read a screen, and pay 2.5 times the price for it..

yahooadam · 1st Sep 2006, 20:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swafeman

Id sooner read a book than read a screen, and pay 2.5 times the price for it..

QFT

Plus i don't have a PSP, nor do i fancy buying one

Now if they integrated this with some GPS - it could be much more interesting

whisperwolf · 1st Sep 2006, 22:18

Little bitty expensive for a lonly planet guide, now if they perhaps upped the price of the book to $29.95 and included the UMD I might be a little more tempted.
That said if they did include gps functionality it might be worth the extra cash

BoomAM · 3rd Sep 2006, 14:15

Good idea, but i dont think a PSP is an ideal platform for it.
You wont exactely get enough time to read what it is you want to read with the battery life of a PSP.
Its like that translator thing for PSP, good idea, but not exactely something that could be used as much as the software was aimed for.

A phone version would have been a better option imo.

Paradigm Shifter · 3rd Sep 2006, 14:43

Paper Book > Electronic Book.

First law of electronic devices: the battery always runs out when you least want it to.

Tyinsar · 5th Sep 2006, 04:35

Kinda reminds me of the pricing on CDs vs audio tapes or DVDs vs VHS tapes: The tapes cost more to make than the CDs/DVDs yet the CDs/DVDs cost more because they can charge more. (The joys of a free-market economy

(not that I'd advocate too many of the alternatives)) Well, I know how my dollars are voting.

Sinner666 · 5th Sep 2006, 05:58

The word "useless" comes to mind. Plus, I less than three my books.

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BoomAM Multimodder Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: UK Posts: 133	Good idea, but i dont think a PSP is an ideal platform for it. You wont exactely get enough time to read what it is you want to read with the battery life of a PSP. Its like that translator thing for PSP, good idea, but not exactely something that could be used as much as the software was aimed for. A phone version would have been a better option imo. __________________ http://www.anandtech.com/myanandtech.html?member=76821 "I am standing in the sky on the roof of a glass and steel office tower in Rotterdam. There are twenty-one floors of air between me and the concrete pavement below. I am about to do what i do best. I am about to jump." - Jackie Chan

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Tyinsar 6 screens / 1 card Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: AB.CA Posts: 2,005	Kinda reminds me of the pricing on CDs vs audio tapes or DVDs vs VHS tapes: The tapes cost more to make than the CDs/DVDs yet the CDs/DVDs cost more because they can charge more. (The joys of a free-market economy (not that I'd advocate too many of the alternatives)) Well, I know how my dollars are voting. __________________ It's not about how life treats you, it's about how you treat life.

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Sinner666 Multimodder Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 101	The word "useless" comes to mind. Plus, I less than three my books.