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Tapwave -the Palm-based games player gets another strange review

The Zodiac, still not available in Europe, is not exactly taking over from the Gameboy - at least not yet! - but it is attracting major attention from game players. Two of them have published a review, in the form of a debate ...

The review is by gamers by Julie Strietelmeier and Judie Hughes of The Gadgeteer. It's a lot more detailed than the second-hand one we published here a couple of months back! This is in detail.

Julie sums up the machine: "A gorgeous 3.8in colour display, ATI graphics accelerator, Yamaha sound system, analog controls, 128Mb of RAM, and 2 SD card slots, it is primed to be a real kick ass gamer's device. But ... is also a PDA. A Palm OS version 5.2.6 PDA to be exact" - with the same spec: "gorgeous 3.8in colour display" and all.

They like it, in short. They have a couple of good pix, they recommend the 128 meg version over the 32 meg version; and they compare it with the Sony Clie UX50 - with all the faults removed.

Not all the review is rave. Julie (her comments are printed in black type in the review, while Judie's are in blue) had serious trouble getting the thing to talk to her PC, and Judie found it installed itself in the Sony directory (apparently you can't have a Clie and another Palm synching to the same PC) and there were a couple of other weirdnesses.

All in all, an excellent review. Read it!