So Meetro may not be getting acquired by
Google, but they haven't been slouching around, either. They've got plans to port their location-based IM
application to the Sony Playstation portable and the
Nintendo DS, both handheld gaming consoles with
WiFi support. Seems to me a smart target — primarily a youth market already familiar with casual ad-hoc chat. Trouble
is, neither device has a built-in QWERTY keyboard, so it'll be interesting to see how the Meetro application handles text entry. Then again, the console-specific clients won't be out til next
summer, so perhaps we'll see keyboard attachments for these devices by then.
[Via Download
Squad]
1. Are we forgetting that the DS has touchscreen and voice input capabilites? Can't say the same for PSP though.. maybe they can communicate by selecting a series of emoticons ?
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Johnny Malkavian