What to get for Christmas?
There are many great electronics coming out this holiday season. But a few in particular interest me. First, the Nexus 10, ah the google tablet with a 2500 by 1600 pixel resolution with 300 pixels per inch! It has a 1.7 ghz dual core arm cortex a-15 cpu. It has the latest wireless connections and has the latest android 4.2 ,and being a nexus device, will get updates first. Pricing is 400$ and comes out November 13th. Now this sounds like the perfect android gaming device on paper, but there is one glaring problem, CONTROLS. Touchscreen shooters and rpg's are painful to play as well as pes 2012, which is the game i play most on my galaxy player now. So the wikipad would be perfect right? Not necessarily, even though it has great features, you could get a ps vita and a 3ds for that price. Or even any console or the ipad or nexus 10. So I bet your'e wondering, what android device has buttons and has decent processing power and is affordable. Welcome to the archos gamepad. It has a 1.5 gigahurts cpu and a quad core gpu, the same as the galaxy s3. There is an innovative mapping system to get gestures and virtual buttons mapped to the controls. All for under 200$. This is cheaper than the 3ds and ps vita but has decent graphics even though the resolution will most likely be 1024 by 600 but i am hoping they bump it up to 1280 by 720, but at 150-200$, you really can't complain too much. The game pad has a non proprietary micro sd card slot, and most importantly HDMI. Also the ram is not disclosed as well as the release date. Hdmi is important because that tablet would be PERFECT for emulators and emulators on the big screen for under 200 dollars is great. Then again you don't get as high quality games, but they are affordable and i have invested over 100$ in android games. There is also the chromebook to consider for 250$. You get immunity to virues, fast startup that stays fast, has hdmi, affordable and usb 3.0. So this leaves me with a decision, the chromebook and the archos gamepad. The nexus 10 with a bluetooth keyboard and the archos gamepad. Or the chromebook and the nexus 10 with a bluetooth controller and keyboard. What do you think is the best option for mobile gaming?
