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Apr 5, 2005, 10:40 PM
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Gizmondo Pre-Order Hitting Retailers with pace
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Global website begins shipping pre-ordered stock as retail rollout gathers pace. Company is funded and ready to take on mainland Europe. Gizmondo Europe announced it has begun shipping worldwide orders taken on the official website since going live on 29th October 2004. As previously released in December '04, the company took over 560,000 pre-orders from all over the globe, following a TV and web teaser campaign at the end of last year. The three-month campaign, designed to unveil the new multi-entertainment device and prompt consumer enquiries, delivered over 16 million unique sessions a month on the newly designed website from all over the world.
The company is also enjoying ongoing success at their flagship store at
175 Regent Street in London, taking daily stock-drops, and looks
forward to the immanent announcement of additional flagship stores in
high profile locations across the globe. The Gizmondo is powered by
Microsoft Windows CE advanced real-time operating system, boasting a
2.8-inch TFT colour screen with a Samsung ARM9 400Mhz processor and
incorporates the GoForce 3D 4500 NVIDIA graphics accelerator. It
provides cutting-edge gaming, multimedia messaging, an MP3 music
player, Mpeg4 movie playing capability, a digital camera and a GPRS
network link to allow wide-area network gaming. Additionally, it
contains a GPS chip for location-based services, is equipped with
Bluetooth for use in multi-player gaming and accepts SD and MMC card
accessories.
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