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#1 alexatkin
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[QUOTE="ZachMasta"]lol woops. I guess you are supposed to charge it right out of the box? -_- I ripped it out and began playing in a heartbeat. Oh and the 3D initializing thing was sweet.ArchoNils2

No you weren't supposed to charge it out of Box, some just don't know that we have lithium-ion batteries since a lot years now which don't have the bad things like memory effect earlier batteries had

You are mistaken as many if not all Lithium Ion based appliances recommend charging it fully on first use, its usually the very first thing it tells you to do in the manual. That is because the charging circuit has to learn the real capacity of the battery for the battery remaining indicator to be accurate and also for it to know exactly how far it is safe to charge the battery. It doesn't necessarily do any damage using it right away, it just means your remaining charge indicator might take a few full cycles before it is accurate and it may stop short of reaching the maximum charge until it knows what the battery can handle.
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#2 alexatkin
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Bummer, Netfront has been utter crap on the consoles it has been used on. I mean come on, the PS3 gets "out of memory" errors all the time but the same sites on the Wii work perfectly, and the PS3 has a LOT more RAM than the Wii. We can only hope it was poor implementation by Sony rather than a problem with Netfront itself. Personally though I am hoping for a YouTube app for the 3DS with YouTube 3D support. On a 320x240 or even 400x240 screen, a dedicated app would work a lot better than attempting it via Flash in the browser (though it would be nice to have that too for other sites). There is already a reasonable amount of content on YouTube in 3D if you look for it so it would make sense to be able to upload video from the 3DS to YouTube, as well as playback 3D content from YouTube. Neither of those functions are available at launch however. For the same reason I am hoping they will add video playback in general so even if they do not add 3D video capture via the 3DS itself, you can at least capture it using a point and shoot camera and play it back on the 3DS. I suspect they might not though due to the fear of piracy of 3D movies when they are wanting to rent those movies to us via the store.