Playstation portable: handheld video game

Latin Trade, August, 2005

Price: US$250

www.us.playstation.com/psp

* The Good

Awesome graphics. Capable of downloading from the Web. Holds photos and digital music. The built-in, dimmable light is great. Using a special disk, it plays movies

* The Bad

For now, at least, there is not enough variety of games. Uses Sony's proprietary memory module, so if you recently bought a different manufacturer's digital camera, you're out of luck

* Who Should Buy

Serious gamers should be all over this

* Who Should Not

It's relatively expensive, and delicately made, so it's not for smaller kids. Sony seems to be angling for the gaming generation now into their 20s and 30s, so a lot of available game content out now is violent