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The young firm Tapwave has to snare ambitious plans with a gameshandheld older GameBoy Advance-players. The with Bluetooth equipped apparatus, Helix named, will turn games on top PalmOS 5.2, the operating system that hand heroes of Handspring aims for and Palm.

Over Helix, there is not yet so much known, since the pace appeared will against the end of this year. Despite the presence of organizer- and synchronisatiefunctions, the apparatus in the first place will intended are for gamers. Also the built in Bluetooth-module serves for that: games for Helix would contain multiplayerpossibilities. Further there is scarcely something known about the hardware. At the partners of Tapwave source snoring names as an ATI, Motorola - builder of many custom PDA-processors - and the sounds division of Yamaha stand.

With a gentegreerde joystick/joypad and color screen of 320 x 480, Helix as a competitor sounds for the GameBoy Advance and yet more for Nokia N-Salary. For where the hand hero of Nintendo candidly aims on the younger person public, seek Helix and N-Salary both wealthy persons in his twenties and dertigers on. Considerably how many game-developers becomes can get both behind their. The website of Tapwave displays already with the large names Activision and Midway, and perhaps Sega can be added at that. Recently the Japanese firm its old Gamegear wanted to spell-from for Palm-apparatuses, through which a further transformation easily appears to the Helix-platform.

The notification that Tapwave a licentie on PalmOS has taken, is expected on the PalmSource developers purse. PalmSource, the split off software division of Palm, will that possible all a preview give of PalmOS 6 - and that while Haul self yet always pocket computers sells with Palm OS 4.1.