Nintendo DSi: 6 reasons it’s a blogger’s best friend

By packing the DSi with a camera, built in web browser and SD card capabilities Nintendo has, perhaps unwittingly, unleashed the ultimate blogging tool. It’s smaller than a laptop, more fun than your phone and fits in your pocket. Need more convincing? Read on, gadget fancier.

Why adding a camera makes the DSi a blogger’s best friend:
With the inclusion of a 3.2 megapixel snapper the DSi may have just overtaken the lappy as the essential tool for bloggers. With a built in web browser, Wi-Fi and camera DSi bloggers will be able to upload photos quickly and easily without faffing about with camera equipment and card readers.

And because it’s much smaller and lighter than a laptop it can get into places where you previously couldn’t for covert blogging. It’s Perfect for bloggy espionage. No one will suspect a games device.

It can record sounds
Blogging with pictures is a great way to get your story across but how about adding some sound to your shots. The DSi also records short sound clips, making it a blogging, web browser and voice recording tool in one. Oh, and it plays games too. Great!

Why storage is all-important:
With the addition of SD card storage Nintendo has opened up the memory floodgates for portable gaming as well as the possibilities of downloading full titles. But for bloggers there’s more to get excited about. Just captured something worthwhile on your camcorder? Why not grab the footage from its SD card and plop it into your shiny new DSi ready to upload for the world to see. You could be the one who gets the scoop nobody else did. As long as the file can be seen by the DSi’s broswer, that is.

Screen:
Nintendo’s supersized the screen to 3.25 inches making it larger than most so-called web-browsing mobiles. And because the screen’s now larger it’s ideal for blogging in tight places without having to strain your eyes to make out flea-sized text.

Battery life:
Sure, battery life on the DSi is a tad less than the DS Lite but that shouldn’t stop it being a capable blog buddy. The DSi will last around 14 hours on its lowest brightness setting while the original lasted 19.

That beats the batteries of mini PCs like the Asus Eee PC (8 hours), the MSI Wind (5.5 hours) and Acer’s Aspire One (7 hours). This blogging tool’s got stamina.

Size:
While the Eee PC’s been flaunting its tiny shell for a while, the DSi is 10 times smaller. The Eee PC might make other lappy’s look like Stone Age computing tools with its 226mm x 74.9mm x 23mm dimensions but with the DSi’s 137mm x 74.9mm x 18.9mm size it’s the ultimate baby-sized blog chum.

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