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wraggster
July 28th, 2006, 22:09
http://console-news.dcemu.co.uk/greenapple.jpg

China's Green Apple company recently released the latest addition to its APOD line, the AP3100. The device has a 3.6-inch color LCD, SD card slot, and 1.3MP camera, and supports MP3, WMA, and FLAC, JPG, GIF, BMP, AVI, DivX, and XviD. The AP3100 doubles as a Super Nintendo emulator that allows playback of games gleaned from the Internet!

The 4.72" x 2.56" x 0.67" wonder seems to be packing 512MB of memory, but can be added with 4GB SD cards.

No word on price or availability yet, but it shouldn't be too hard to find at an import shop once it hits the shelves.

Product page (http://www.apod.com.cn/)
GeEkPiE
July 28th, 2006, 22:46
sweet, bit of a fat version of the psp but its definately on my to buy list
MichaelA
July 28th, 2006, 23:09
What's the resolution of the screen? I went poking around that site but I couldn't find any details. If it's 320x240 or less then it's not that interesting...
thetree222
July 28th, 2006, 23:31
Green Apple aPod? maybe they should have called it the Fony Gamestation Portable (GSP). well, if its cheap i'll pick one up, but if its ove 200 smackers, i just might be forced to avoid it.
Sumo X
July 29th, 2006, 00:20
Since I'm moving to China in a month, I will try to pick this up and write a review for it (depending on how much it costs, though).
Malksta
July 29th, 2006, 00:24
Seems very nice but i dont think im ever going to buy this and the name seems too familiar >.<
Apple Apod
sabernet
July 29th, 2006, 00:31
Am I the only one who thought "Green Apple Splatters"? Not the best name:P

As has been mentioned: what is the screen res?

As for the SNES emu, what is the compatibility? Are they using a modified Snes9X or is it completely proprietary? Is it software or chip based?

The GP2X has a snes emu too if you count Snes2X or SquidgeSNES. Still somewhat slow-ish, but there and getting better.
claym99
July 29th, 2006, 05:01
I wanna know the proccesor speed...and that D-pad will be nice if people can get a lot of emulators going.
ACID
July 29th, 2006, 05:56
unless the power is more then the GP2X. Im not buying because even though the gp2x is more powerfull then the psp it still doesnt have much growth so this machine will be forgotten.
motz
July 29th, 2006, 09:37
It has a lot of pretty good features but I don't think it will ever become popular enough to be a threat to any of the other homebrew consoles though.
NoQuarter
July 29th, 2006, 09:42
Can anything really threaten the psp as a hombrew machine? It would have to be pretty impresive cause this is best scene ever!
claym99
July 29th, 2006, 17:09
Can anything really threaten the psp as a hombrew machine? It would have to be pretty impresive cause this is best scene ever!

Are you retarded? Have you not heard of the GP2X...or the infamous Tapwave Zodiac. Hell, even the GP32 probably emulates some stuff better than the PSP...and you can still actually enjoy it when a new firmware comes out. Yuppie.
DreamDogg
September 3rd, 2006, 03:33
Geen Apple's next product!

Green Apple APOD AP5000

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://product.imp3.net/product.php%3Fid%3D4469&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dapod%2Bap5000%26hl%3Den%26hs%3DjXM%26 lr%3D%26client%3Dopera%26rls%3Den

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.goodigi.com/ArticleShow.asp%3FArticleID%3D559&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dapod%2Bap5000%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den% 26lr%3D%26client%3Dopera%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN

From the images, this model has a nicer (metal?) case. I am not sure about the feature set, but the SNES and video-out capability do create some interesting possibilities.
Video_freak
September 3rd, 2006, 03:36
Nice info DreamDogg! :)
DreamDogg
September 4th, 2006, 12:02
Check it out!

Merchant "CoolPie" already sells the ap5000 on China eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com.cn/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120025915335&ih=002&category=119908&rd=1

Can anyone read Chinese ?
DreamDogg
September 6th, 2006, 13:47
Wow!

APOD's latest model, the AP5000 is already for sale on eBay (USA), in two different colors:

Orange:

http://cgi.ebay.com/512MB-ORANGE-Portable-Video-Game-Player-MP3-MP4-Camera_W0QQitemZ290026568802QQihZ019QQcategoryZ738 39QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Silver(Black?):

http://cgi.ebay.com/512MB-SILVER-Portable-Video-Game-Player-MP3-MP4-Camera_W0QQitemZ290026568821QQihZ019QQcategoryZ738 39QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem