Oh wait, I forgot a few things-
-The PC boards were assembled by 4 year-old Indonesian kids with ADHD.
- Common components (resistors, capacitors, etc) would change from 1 unit to another because they were bought from surplus dealers.

-The unit never had proper UL or ETL listing. They sent a few units that were well built to the labs. They passed but were required to change a few things. They then built a few more that passed but the production units were built as described above.

OK, I'm done.

The Gizmondo was every bit as bad as it's remembered.
The company I work for had the pleasure of doing some PR work for these clowns prior to the release of the steaming brickshit pile.

I was given 3 of these things as well as an unlimited account and all kinds of software and schwag. Very cool right? Benefits of being "on the inside" right?
They were great little machines except for a couple of minor glitches.
-The sound quality for the "phone" was a little worse than 2 cups attached to a string.
-Battery life measured in nanoseconds.
-A screen that was only visible standing under an 32-1/2 foot tall oak tree on July 4th, between 12:01 and 12:09PM while zebras raced by singing "staying alive".
-Games that made me long for Pong as played on a 9" B/W portable TV with a scratched screen.
-The "keyboard" had the tactile feedback and accuracy as a dead hissing cockroach laying on a pile of pigeon shit.
-The only screen ever made that would get 1/8" deep scratches while stored in a vacuum chamber.

2 months later I couldn't give these things away. I still have them although I parted out 1 of them to use for a FIRST Robot. This was the only time the hardware from these shitpiles worked.

These guys never intended for this thing to be real. It was a scam from the start.
Even their final checks (accounting for 80% of the contract total) bounced 2 days after the project ended and we didn't hear from them again.
We did think the crash was hysterical (except for trashing a beautiful car that I got to drive once after a meeting)although it would have much funnier if they became paraplegics relying on machines to keep them alive.
Machines run, of course, with Gizmondos.

Good thing I never hold a grudge.