Nintendo DSi Handheld
The Nintendo DSi handheld console has the largest screen size, best aud io quality, and thinnest design of any system in the Nintendo DS handheld family of consoles. You can use your DSi handheld console to download exclusive games, clocks, and calendars via the Nintendo DSi Shop. Reaching far beyond the limits of the standard game console, the Nintendo DSi handheld allows you to take pictures using either an inward- or outward-facing camera. You can also chose from 11 different lenses to customize your shots. With the Nintendo DSi, you can easily connect wirelessly to browse the internet, share photos, and play with others, or alternatively you can access your music in the AAC format off any standard SD Card.
Nintendo DSi Handheld Console: Product Description
Nintendo pioneered handheld entertainment in the ’80s and famously made it fully mobile and accessible to millions around the world with the Game Boy, DS, DS Lite handheld video game systems. Now, Nintendo is taking things to the next level by transforming the way people access, experience, create and share content with the new Nintendo DSi system, the third iteration of the world’s best-selling portable video game system.The Nintendo DSi Handheld System
The Nintendo DSi handheld console is a high-powered video game system in a sleek, folding design-loaded with features designed to create a unique gaming experience. Like the DS and DS Lite handheld before it, the DSi features Nintendo’s trademark stylus-driven touchscreen technology, but determined to make portable gaming simultaneously larger and smaller in all the right places, Nintendo has also created the DSi with significantly larger screens and an even slimmer body design than its earlier cousins.
Nintendo DSi Handheld’s Many Unique Features
DSi’s Two Digital Cameras
The most noticeable feature of the slim Nintendo DSi system are its two cameras – one camera is situated on the external body pointing away from the user, and the second one points at the user when the device is flipped open. As the first truly interactive digital camera in a video game system, the DSi Cameras feature 10 different interactive “lenses” that can manipulate your photos, offering an easy way to take and share your photos with family and friends. The cameras also present people with unprecedented ways to interact with their games, and in the process provide developers with a new tool to devise creative games and experiences. If the touch screen gave Nintendo DS a sense of feel and the microphone allowed it to hear, the two cameras give Nintendo DSi the sense of sight.
Nintendo DSi Sound
Another enhanced feature is the Nintendo DSi Sound application, which serves as both an interactive voice recorder and music player that allows users to play with their music while they listen to it. Users can access different audio filters or control the pitch and speed of recorded voice or music files to alter voices or change the tempo of a song. The mic is located between the two screens when the device is flipped open, and there is also a stereo headphone output that lets users listen to music saved on an SD card, even with the screen shut.
The DSiWare
In the world of software, Nintendo DSi will be the platform for the most relevant and fun on-the-go games and applications. The Nintendo DSiWare application will populate Nintendo DSi with software that can be downloaded using Nintendo DSi Points directly to the portable system, just as WiiWare has with Nintendo’s Wii console. Developers big and small are invited to create software that makes use of the properties and functions of the hardware. Nintendo DSiWare games and applications will be available at a range of values, starting at 200 points.
Games and Backwards Compatibility for New Owners of the DSi Handheld
In addition to downloadable games, Nintendo DSi handheld is able to play games made specifically for the system and sold at retail. The system can also play most Nintendo DS games, and will have access to a library of more than 850 titles originally made for that system. As an example of the quality of games that DSi players can expect to see both from both Nintendo and third-party game developers, at the launch of the DSi handheld, Nintendo is also releasing Rhythm Heaven. A wildly popular rhythm game in Japan, where it has sold nearly 2 million copies since its release in mid 2008, Rhythm Heaven features catchy tunes, charming characters, and a wide variety of rhythm games as it makes maximum use of the DSi’s functionality.
Facebook
Nintendo DSi handheld owners have even more ways to share their experiences with friends and family. Using an Internet-connected Nintendo DSi system and the Nintendo DSi Camera application, Facebook members can take pictures with either of the system’s two cameras and upload their photos directly to their Facebook profile. While reviewing pictures they’ve stored in the Nintendo DSi Camera album, which includes photos taken by users and manipulated using the built-in interactive lenses, users can simply tap the Facebook icon on the system’s touch screen to instantly transmit photos to the user’s Facebook profile. The user’s system must be configured to a wireless broadband Internet connection for the transmission of photos.
Nintendo DSi Handheld’s Technical Specs:
| DSi Handheld: | |
| Display: | 3.25 inches |
| Overall size: | Width 137mm, Length 74.9mm, Thickness 18.9mm |
| Power Supply: | AC adapter for Nintendo DSi |
| Weight: | Approx. 214g (with touch pen) |
| Charging time: | Approx. 2 hours and 30 minutes |
| Battery life: | The lowest brightness (9-14 hrs), low brightness (8-12 hours), medium brightness (6-9 hours), high brightness (4-6 hours), highest brightness(3-4 hours) |
| Software: | Software for Nintendo DS, Software for Nintendo DSi. |
| Input-output: | DS card slot, SD memory card slot, AC adapter connection, stereo headphone/mic jack |
