NINTENDO 3DS LAUNCHING IN MARCH IN US

The highly anticipated Nintendo 3DS system will launch February 26 in Japan, followed very closely in the U.S. in March.  The 3DS comes bundled with a charger stand, AC adapter, a 10cm (~4") Nintendo 3DS touch pen, 2GB SD card, six augmented reality cards and instruction manual.

New functions, according to Nintendo, include a slide pad, a motion sensor and gyrosensor.  Like its predecessors, the 3DS will have parental controls. It is backwards compatible with games from the DS system.  The top screen is a 3.53 inch liquid crystal display running at 800 x 240 while the bottom button screen is 3.02 inch liquid crystal display running at 320 x 240.  It has two cameras on the outside at 0.3 megapixels each and one camera on the inside.  WiFi functionality is built in as well.

On the outside there is a game cartridge slot, an SD card slot, an AC adapter slot and a headphone jack.  Stereo speakers are on the left and right of the upper shell.  The Nintendo 3DS will be powered by rechargeable lithium ion batteries. [Gizmodo]