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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 core. The graphics core 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 uses a modular kernel similar to Linux. The OS has a sleek, minimal user interface.