PSPgo Dissection Reveals Questionable Long-Term Durability

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In case you missed it in our PSPgo review, iFixit performed one of their notorious teardown on the handheld. The biggest news is that the Go's battery is tucked under a warranty-voiding sticker. Other tidbits:

• You can dissect the Go with a standard Phillips #0
• Sony still uses 802.11b Wi-Fi
• Battery not soldered to board
• No metal framework (the structural integrity relies on outer plastic shell)
• Sony processor, Samsung's 16GB of flash storage (in case you cared)

Even though iFixit is pretty positive you can slide the battery out and leave the sticker intact, it's pretty lousy for Sony to hide a component that will need not-so eventual replacing under a warranty-voiding seal. Also, the lack of an internal framework (or much real metal) matches our impressions of the Go's somewhat flimsy, plastic feel.

Couple these two points and add a sliding mechanism, and it's hard to imagine how well a Go will hold up two to three years down the line. Then again, Sony is probably banking on you replacing the Go with another new product by then anyway, just like every other CE company.

http://gizmodo.com/5369397/pspgo-dis...erm-durability

Another addition to my list of reasons not to get this thing.

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Originally Posted by wraggster

• Sony processor, Samsung's 16GB of RAM (in case you cared)

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Does this guy really knows what the RAM means? Maybee 16gb internal flash or NAND(16 gb nand? joking...:D) and i dont like slim and brite for plastic feeling (and it feels like if you hold it too tight it'll break:D)... Nobody was sayng that! And whats PSPgo? does it feel like an empty smaall plastic box in a hand?
By the way 16Gb of RAM price starts from 400 dollars(PSPgo something like 275)!

okay... its OK now... But did you see those speakers? They looks like from a phat!

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Originally Posted by zxxxy18

Does this guy really knows what the RAM means? Maybee 16gb internal flash or NAND(16 gb nand? joking...:D) and i dont like slim and brite for plastic feeling (and it feels like if you hold it too tight it'll break:D)... Nobody was sayng that! And whats PSPgo? does it feel like an empty smaall plastic box in a hand?
By the way 16Gb of RAM price starts from 400 dollars(PSPgo something like 275)!

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They've fixed it now, and it says Flash.

Nop, it still say's Random Access Memory xD . That's hilarious. If PSPgo would have 16GB of RAM, that would be EPIC (but pretty much useless with that kinda processing power).

RAM != Internal Memory

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Originally Posted by darkdex52

Nop, it still say's Random Access Memory xD .

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Refresh the page or clear your cache, the page says flash now.

i just loaded this page for the first time half an hour after jamotto, it says ram

i think you 2 guys are getting confused
darkdex is looking at the post by wragg
and jamotto is looking at the original

the original page has been changed
but wraggster hasnt updated the post

Come now people, step back and calm down. I've edited wragg's post reflect the update on the post at Gizmodo so that should settle the issue.

Just a question.. Anyone know any store that's having a midnight opening for this thing? Apart from console updates etc. every console has had midnight opening, and this thing is classed as a whole new console, so just be interesting to know how serious retailers take it.

I've no idea at all, myself. I'd be surprised if many people were to queue up at a PSP Go midnight launch, if any such events happen to go ahead at all.

battery looks like from ps3 controller... easy replacement if i mod this psp