I bought one of these in 2004 and it really was a slice of the future. The screen was way bigger and higher res than anything I had owned prior, and the ability to jailbreak and run emulators gave it a lot more use than just UMD games.

I still have my original PSP 1000 which worked well until my daughter dropped it a couple weeks ago...

Yeah I'm surprised they had anything negative to say about the screen. It was incredible at the time, and still holds up well.

I recently dug mine out of storage and did a few quests in one of the Monster Hunter games, loading up an old save. It felt like I had barely put it down. My hunting log showed all the "recent" quests I had completed... 16 years ago.