The GP2X Wiz is the latest handheld system from Game Park Holdings (GPH). Game Park Holdings is a Korean company that has previously produced and sold the GP2X line of handheld systems. Game Park Holdings was created by employees that left Gamepark who had created the GP32 handheld system.
The primary use for the GP2X Wiz is for open source home brew games and applications. The development kit is free to download and use, and there is an active community supporting this home brew development.
Emulation seems to be the favorite application of the Game Park line of handhelds. This ranges from emulation of older game consoles like the Neo Geo Pocket Color or the Nintendo Entertainment system to computer systems such as the Commodore 64. It also encompasses emulators serving a broad range of emulation systems like the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (or MAME). Of course, there are commercial games for the Wiz, but that's not the focus of this article.
It really is a cool little handheld, and I do mean little. It really seems a lot smaller than you'd expect for a system with such a nice screen and controls.
To finish up, let's look at some of the specs for this cool new portable machine.
The Wiz is based on the MagicEyes Pollux chip and sports a 533MHz ARM 9 CPU (which can be easily overclocked to about 800MHz). It uses SD flash storage for its exterman storage, and has 1G of internal flash storage. Out of the box, the Wiz runs Linux, which is cool for the open-source operating system geeks out there.