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# Nintendo: the affordable PDA
- URL: https://werd.io/nintendo-the-affordable-pda/
- Published: 2006-03-21T11:12:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:22.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

[Nintendo DS to get VoIP soon.](http://voip.weblogsinc.com/2006/03/15/nintendo-ds-to-get-voip-soon/) The [Nintendo DS](http://www.nintendo.com/systemsds) is a handheld games console in the vein of the old Gameboy - but with the addition of a touch-sensitive screen and wifi capabilities. Just as the Playstation 2 brought DVDs into a lot of people's homes, this has the capability to bring VoIP into the mainstream.

Where the Playstation 2 and the DS differ, of course, is the latter's portability; any kid can bring a DS into school, and because the manufacturer makes back money on games, the units themselves are very cheap. (The DS retails for $129.99 at Best Buy; a wifi enabled Palm, meanwhile, runs at $299.) Although you'd have a pretty tough time getting this past any kind of school board - games consoles for educational use?! - there's [a flavour of the Opera browser](http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/02/15/) avaliable for it, which in collaboration with services like [Writely](http://www.writely.com/), [Num Sum](http://numsum.com/), [DabbleDB](http://www.dabbledb.com/) and [Thumbstacks](http://www.thumbstacks.com/), make it a pretty affordable PDA in wireless-enabled zones.

(Via [evhead](http://evhead.com/).)