Which and why?
I still use the old pocket PC, seems to do most things, but that video performance in the PSP is pretty compelling, particularly for the price. Plus my ipod shuffle quit working like 3 weeks after I bought it :mad:
IPod or PSP: IMHO.
I have no idea what you’re asking about. The iPod and the PSP are fundamentally different pieces of technology and are designed to do different things. You can’t play anything more complex than klondike on an iPod, but you can stick literally days of audio or hours of video on one. For the price of a PSP you could probably get a GBA or DS and a small portable DVD player, but if you really want to watch movies and play games a PSP isn’t an awful choice. Neither one is designed to replace a PDA.
I have both, and I’d never dream of even trying to move the functions of one onto the other. They serve different purposes. You’ll be disappointed if you try to make the current iPod any kind of media center (and you’re probably delusional if you try and make it into a game machine). The PSP is a decent video machine, but it’s not even close to the iPod as a music player. The games are nice.
The devices bleed into one another’s territory a little, but honestly–try and have both if you can. If not, I find I use my iPod more than my PSP, so go with that.
I am referring to comparing a Video IPod to a PSP. Sorry for the mix up.
I have the video iPod and battery life is awful for longer movies. For TV shows it is OK.
They’re just too different. Size, for one, is an issue with the PSP. It has the nice big screen, and it’s a good size for your hands for playing games, but it doesn’t fit into pockets as easily as an iPod. I think you have to figure out what you want. Is it games first, music/movies second? PSP. If you don’t care about games, iPod. If you want a nice movie player that can do the other functions passably well, PSP. If you don’t care about the video and music and portability is your top priority, iPod. They’re really too different to compare easily.
Both!
I guess it depends what you want. There’s a 4 GB microdrive for the PSP for ~$150 (IIRC), and that’ll hold a Nano’s equivalent of music, but then I have no idea what the PSP’s music-player interface is like. Plus the PSP is, as previously mentioned, quite a bit larger than the iPod, and I’m not sure there are any cases that would accomodate the PSP w/ the relatively bulky microdrive attachment (probably a sleevelike soft case).
If you’re going mostly video, the PSP’s screen is much bigger, and there are cases designed to hold it up at “optimal” viewing angles. (I’ve never actually watched any video on my iPod video, so I can’t speak for video quality, etc.)