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Ericsson resumes work on Red Jade game system!! |
Indeed
Joined: Nov 16, 2001
Posts: 67
From: London
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Taken from the latest news pages of highly respected gaming website, Magic Box www.the-magicbox.com
Ready to take on Gameboy Advance and the Nokia N-Gauge
- Ericsson has resumed the plan on developing the 64-bit mobile game machine Red Jade. The plan was once put aside last year due to financial issues, but Ericsson has made a new announcement in Asia last week regarding to the plan on launching Red Jade in 2003. The Red Jade will have a 64-bit CPU, which can process 3D polygon graphics, with a quality between PSone and N64. Here are the specs:
64-bit CPU
3D polygon graphics
Multi-channel PCM Sounds
TFT LCD display, 65536 colors
Mobile phone rechargeable battery
Blue Tooth technology enable wireless communication between 2 or more machines
Download game titles from secured game servers
Retail price will be less than US$10
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caff
Joined: Jun 14, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Australia
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is it a phone as well ??? |
hymie
Joined: Jan 11, 2002
Posts: 249
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I doubt this info to be true... Red Jade was closed for good in 2001.
The capital flow stopped and the company was sold to Synergenix (btw.: that are the dudes which are behind the mophun game engine now sported in the T300).
@caff: yeah, the concept was intended to feature phone and game functionality in one device
cheers,
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Super G
Joined: Mar 07, 2002
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From: France
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I fully agree with Hymie.
This is bullsh*t!
Red Jade no longer exists!!! The company disappeared after Ericsson pulled out from it.
Ericsson initially invested in it, but now it's over. Dead.
Red Jade, based in Paalo Alto, CA had designed the game console completely, Ericsson was just supposed to build it, market it and distribute it... But this never happened, and it won't happen. No working prototype is even known to exist.
But you can still try and connect to Red Jade previous website...
http://www.redjade.com/corp.html
Good luck
There's also a couple of week old article on this...
http://money.cnn.com/2002/10/18/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/
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hymie
Joined: Jan 11, 2002
Posts: 249
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Hmm.. maybe there's something to that story after all?
See http://spong.com/x?art=3969
I'm still doubtful.. but, anyway.. if those news turn out to be true I'm the last to complain.. 
Way to go, Ericsson!
cheers,
hymie |
wapchimp
Joined: Jun 09, 2002
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From: Land of the chimps
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 & sony should pull their fingers out & make a mobile PS2 & buy all the rights to the old atari games - pong, space invaders, pacman - the list goes on - even sega games now they onlt 'do' software - retro gaming heaven - cant w8
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Posted: 2002-11-06 11:44
