Handhelds viable only if they're ahead on tech (Score 1)

It must be inevitable that all phones out there will soon be able to run games and other apps just as well as iPhone or Android phones do now; giving customers access to the games via easy buying portals and somehow controlling the quality and integrity of the e-store will be another problem to sort out. But I don't know if smart phones will totally kill handheld game machines just yet. Nintendo is keeping itself ahead of the curve with the 3DS. It's only a matter of time before those kind of displays are available in phones, but for now, when matched with first-party software and (it's reported and hoped) a more robust online service, it's enough to make it clear the the 3DS will offer a better gaming experience than a simple phone. The PSP has always seemed to be a misguided attempt to cram console experiences into your pocket, which may be inaccurate, but I still don't see the appeal of it or the PSP2/PSP Phone. But for how long will they maintain this shrinking niche? Nintendo can't release a totally new piece of hardware every few months (and iterations of the same hardware in smaller/sleeker packaging don't count), but the major phone makers can iterate endlessly and catch up more easily. Much as with the Wii has enjoyed an apparent single-generation technological leapfrog via motion controls that will likely disappear when Sony and MS adopt them as de rigueur in their next consoles, what will (or can?) Nintendo do to make future handhelds a place people want to game? They could always continue to publish software, but it's been a very long time since Nintendo developed