An interesting thing happened to me on the way to my August story o the month for the Rocky Mountain News. I was feeling out various people for a story about the Gizmondo, the GPS-enabled handheld gaming device.

The idea for the story was that while the device has a lot of cool features and technology built into it, it just didn t come together and is likely doomed to fail.

Interestingly, when I started making my calls I began getting odd reactions to my questions. It sounds like the U.S. pr firm for the Gizmondo release, is no longer handling press for the device. And this news comes less than a week before the launch date for the device?

Then I hear that no one, in fact, is handling U.S. press for the launch. Instead all press calls are being handled by a UK person that s worldwide.

I ve always thought that this device was going to go over like an N-Gage at a Nintendo press conference, but I thought it would at least make a showing.

Now it looks like the device will never get out the door, at least not in the U.S.

Expect to hear some sort of official word on this in the next week or so.

Ps.I know "where for art thou" means why, and the question stands.

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