Project SHIELD

lol

Lol'd

+1

And that's a bad thing? Competition drives innovation.

It's not trying to be a phone. It's a gaming device and that's what its focus clearly is. How does removing features make it a jack of all trades? It's an android gaming device with the streaming feature. That's the only "new" thing I see here. Personally I'll have no real use for this and suspect it will suck but I don't think it will be because it's trying to do too much. The problem as I see it is that this device is attacking two different markets.

1. Mobile/casual gamers - These gamers are the ones that will be playing your typical Android game. They won't be buying dedicated hardware. They also likely don't have a PC capable of playing AAA games.
2. Mid/hardcore gamers - These gamers will buy dedicated hardware but probably have no interest in most Android games as anything more than a diversion. The device itself is too weak to handle real games. If this can't stream over a broadband connection the streaming feature is useless except for bathroom trips.

You're right!

We've been able to do that since the Blackberry. Poker, anyone?

this

What are you even talking about.

Umm... It's got 1280x720p (16:9) aspect ratio.

Did you even read the article or are you just hating on something new because you fear change?

exactly what i thought.

You can play games on a bus too.

Maybe there is some soft already, but it isn't comfortable to play games on the phone.

And it doesn't have TS. Why do you even need this?

I fully agree with you on that, it looks really bulky and to me it looks like the screen doesn't fold back any further than 90° which would make holding it while playing incredibly uncomfortable for me.