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The Q-One is a handheld gaming console created and marketed by Microtek. Released on November 26, 2004 worldwide. As a seventh generation console, the Q-One primarily competed with Sony's PlayStation Portable and the Nintendo DS.

Development of the Q-One started around 2003. Being a handheld console that has a similar performance to the PSP, the console was notable for its library of games and impressive capabilities. Besides the PSP, the Q-One is one of the only handheld consoles to have an optical disc drive.

Hardware
The Q-One has a sleek appearance, while retaining its "bar" form factor. The console sports a 4.3-inch 480x272 widescreen TFT LCD panel. The console has four face buttons (A, B, X, Y), a direction pad, an analog stick, and other buttons. Also on the front are two holes for the speakers and a 0.3MP front camera. On the top, the console has two shoulder buttons and a microUSB port. On the left side, there's an SD card slot, while on the right side, there's a power button. On the back, there's a 1MP camera, a battery slot and an optical drive.

The console has a 200MHz ARM920T Freescale i.MX1 processor, combined with a custom, proprietary PolyCore 3D graphics hardware engine. The graphics engine handles the graphics capabilities of the console. It's capable of rendering over a million polygons per second. It supports OpenGL ES 1.0. The graphics chip supports texture compression, anisotropic filtering, anti-aliasing, and many other features. Despite the slower processor that's used in the console, it performs on par with Sony's PSP at a target frame rate of 30 fps.

The console features 32MB of system memory (64MB on the Q-One+ model), with 4MB of seperate eDRAM for video memory.

The console features Wi-Fi, Infrared (removed in the Q-One+ model), Bluetooth, and USB 2.0 connectivity.

The optical disc drive is located at the back of the unit. It is a top-loading drive that reads the software from the miniDVD.

The console has a 1400mAH battery, with an option for 1800mAH and 2000mAH battery, which it can last for 3 to 5 hours in gameplay, 6 to 8 hours in video playback and 8 to 10 hours in music playback.

System software
The Q-One runs on an in-house operating system named qOS (internally oneOS and oneRTOS). It features multimedia capabilities (audio/video playback) and internet capabilities. The handheld is capable of playing the following files: For the web browser, it uses NetFront as the browser core and it supports Adobe Flash player. It doesn't support HTML5.
 * .MP4 (MPEG-4 Simple Profile and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Main Profile)
 * .AVI (either MJPEG or XVID or MJPEG)
 * .MPG (MPEG1)
 * .WMV (Windows Media Video)
 * .WAV (Linear PCM)
 * .WMA (Windows Media Audio)
 * .MP3 (MPEG1 Layer 3 Audio)
 * .AAC (MPEG 4 Audio)
 * .JPEG
 * .PNG
 * .GIF
 * .BMP
 * .TIFF

In addition to the main operating system, other ARM-compatible OSes, such as Linux can be installed. Microtek offered a version of Linux called qLinux, which was sold either via online or mail-order. The version of Linux is free of charge, but a fee of $9.99 is optional for the keyboard accessory for the console if shipped on a miniDVD. It has all of the necessary packages and drivers installed.

The Q-One natively supports OpenGL ES 1.0 out of the box, due to the use of the PolyCore 3D hardware accelerator. Various software-based graphics rendering engines, such as HI-CORP's MascotCapsule, Fathammer's X-Forge and Raylight's BlueRoses Engine were ported and enhanced for the console. In addition to that, an in-house graphics rendering engine, known as PolyForge was also released to developers.

Games
Since its release, over 914 games were developed and commercially released for this system. Typically, games that are released for this system are distributed in either miniDVD or digital download.

Unlike the Nintendo DS or any handheld game console that are released in this generation (or the last generation), the games have a similarly large filesize to the PSP's UMD format.

North America

 * Bejeweled 2
 * Warfare Incorporated
 * Colin McRae Rally 2005 Plus
 * The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
 * EA Sports Fight Night 2004
 * Spider Man 2
 * Dragon Quest VIII
 * Mortal Kombat: Deception

Europe, Africa and Australia

 * Colin McRae Rally 2005 Plus
 * Rome: Total War
 * Crash Twinsanity
 * Resident Evil 4
 * Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
 * Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
 * Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
 * Lumines: Puzzle Fusion

Asia

 * Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition
 * Meteos
 * Psychonauts
 * Battlefield 2
 * Fight Night Round 2
 * SSX on Tour