Sony: PSP News and Discussion Thread **New Version Revealed (page 11)**
#241
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the changes in 2.5:
http://www.us.playstation.com/psp.as...SoftwareUpdate
Network
* [LocationFree™ Player] has been added as a feature under [Network].
* [Auto-Select] and [Unicode (UTF-8)] have been added as options to [Encoding] under [View] in the [Internet Browser] menu bar.
* Settings for [Text Size] and [Display Mode] in [Internet Browser] can now be saved.
* The input history of online forms accessed through [Internet Browser] can now be saved.
Video
Copyright-protected video can now be played under [Video].
(This applies to video saved on Memory Stick Duo™ media).
For details, contact the video content provider.
Note that fees may be charged to obtain or use copyright-protected video.
Downloadable copyright-protected video may not be available in all countries
and regions.
Settings
# [Set via Internet] has been added as an option to [Date and Time] in [Date & Time Settings] under [Settings].
# [WPA-PSK (AES)] has been added as a security method under [Network Settings].
Other
Korean input mode has been added to the on-screen keyboard.
http://www.us.playstation.com/psp.as...SoftwareUpdate
Network
* [LocationFree™ Player] has been added as a feature under [Network].
* [Auto-Select] and [Unicode (UTF-8)] have been added as options to [Encoding] under [View] in the [Internet Browser] menu bar.
* Settings for [Text Size] and [Display Mode] in [Internet Browser] can now be saved.
* The input history of online forms accessed through [Internet Browser] can now be saved.
Video
Copyright-protected video can now be played under [Video].
(This applies to video saved on Memory Stick Duo™ media).
For details, contact the video content provider.
Note that fees may be charged to obtain or use copyright-protected video.
Downloadable copyright-protected video may not be available in all countries
and regions.
Settings
# [Set via Internet] has been added as an option to [Date and Time] in [Date & Time Settings] under [Settings].
# [WPA-PSK (AES)] has been added as a security method under [Network Settings].
Other
Korean input mode has been added to the on-screen keyboard.
#242
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4GB hard drive + X2 battery... pre-order, $199
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?cat...ducts_id=7825&
Product Features
# 4 GB HDD built-in
# Provides 4 gigabytes of storage space for your PSP saves and files
# Effectively doubles the capacity of the standard PSP battery
# 3.6 volts - 3600 mAh
# Lithium-polymer battery technology
# Plugs at the back of your PSP
another plus:
it makes the PSP easier to hold:
![](http://image.lik-sang.com/images//large/psp-datel-4gb-hdd3.jpg)
it also makes it bigger, but I dunno how much of a disadvantage that is, given how big it already is...
gee.. this makes it like, REALLY big.... :hmm:
![](http://image.lik-sang.com/images//large/psp-datel-4gb-hdd2.jpg)
I wonder if this would be a better investment...
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?cat...ducts_id=7199&
heck I think I'd rather just get more 1gb cards...
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?cat...ducts_id=7825&
Product Features
# 4 GB HDD built-in
# Provides 4 gigabytes of storage space for your PSP saves and files
# Effectively doubles the capacity of the standard PSP battery
# 3.6 volts - 3600 mAh
# Lithium-polymer battery technology
# Plugs at the back of your PSP
another plus:
it makes the PSP easier to hold:
![](http://image.lik-sang.com/images//large/psp-datel-4gb-hdd3.jpg)
it also makes it bigger, but I dunno how much of a disadvantage that is, given how big it already is...
gee.. this makes it like, REALLY big.... :hmm:
![](http://image.lik-sang.com/images//large/psp-datel-4gb-hdd2.jpg)
I wonder if this would be a better investment...
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?cat...ducts_id=7199&
heck I think I'd rather just get more 1gb cards...
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No big changes to PSP software unless you have Location Free TV. I'm starting to like my video iPod for tv shows and movies over this PSP. Ripping and/or converting is starting to become a hassle for the PSP, often times the video and audio are out of sync; watching is painful.
#244
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Originally Posted by kensteele
No big changes to PSP software unless you have Location Free TV. I'm starting to like my video iPod for tv shows and movies over this PSP. Ripping and/or converting is starting to become a hassle for the PSP, often times the video and audio are out of sync; watching is painful.
#245
Go Giants
I like the idea of the 4GB add on, but 4 GB for $199 is
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#246
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Originally Posted by kensteele
No big changes to PSP software unless you have Location Free TV. I'm starting to like my video iPod for tv shows and movies over this PSP. Ripping and/or converting is starting to become a hassle for the PSP, often times the video and audio are out of sync; watching is painful.
U just have to redo your video. The vids I encoded before I updated my PSP worked fine, after the update something alters it. It can be corrected tho.
#247
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Originally Posted by sonnyboyacura
U just have to redo your video. The vids I encoded before I updated my PSP worked fine, after the update something alters it. It can be corrected tho.
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#248
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disappointing game sales. looks like a lot of ppl are using it primarily as a homebrew game/emu/movie player.
http://theinquirer.net/?article=27169
http://theinquirer.net/?article=27169
10 million Sony PSPs sold
Ever lowering number use current firmware
By Marc McEntegart: Monday 24 October 2005, 09:52
SONY COMPUTER r Entertainment said that the ten millionth PSP has shipped.
The figure is broken down into sales across the three release areas with three million sold in Japan/Asia, 4.47 million in North America and 2.53 million in Europe. This is the quickest penetration of any Playstation hardware launch to date.
Along with these statistics is the fact that only 19.6 million games have been shipped. The number is being chased down by the 15 million UMD movies sold already. While some have been quick to point out the unfair comparison, as movies cost just about half what a game does, this isn't the first time we've seen evidence that the PSP is serving as a videogame console secondary to its media playback.
Regardless of how well this might suit competition from the upcoming video i-Pod and the myriad of hard drive storage media players out there, the statistic is set to swing favourably towards games with the release of GTA: Liberty City Stories next week. µ
Ever lowering number use current firmware
By Marc McEntegart: Monday 24 October 2005, 09:52
SONY COMPUTER r Entertainment said that the ten millionth PSP has shipped.
The figure is broken down into sales across the three release areas with three million sold in Japan/Asia, 4.47 million in North America and 2.53 million in Europe. This is the quickest penetration of any Playstation hardware launch to date.
Along with these statistics is the fact that only 19.6 million games have been shipped. The number is being chased down by the 15 million UMD movies sold already. While some have been quick to point out the unfair comparison, as movies cost just about half what a game does, this isn't the first time we've seen evidence that the PSP is serving as a videogame console secondary to its media playback.
Regardless of how well this might suit competition from the upcoming video i-Pod and the myriad of hard drive storage media players out there, the statistic is set to swing favourably towards games with the release of GTA: Liberty City Stories next week. µ
#249
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Sony PSP White -- Ad Controversy
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New billboard advert for Sony's white PSP has caused consternation across the US videogaming community. The ad shows a white model dressed entirely in white threateningly grasping the face of a black model. Next to them are the words, "PlayStation Portable. White is coming". The ad can also be seen on the Dutch official PSP site.
Sites such as Kotaku, Joystiq and Digital Battle have questioned whether the ads are racist. So far the debate has split comments sections with some condeming Sony and equal numbers defending the ads as a harmless personfication of the handheld console's two available colours.
Clearly, whatever the justifications, the intention is to be provocative. According to Joystiq, the adverts have been created by TBWA an agency that speciliases in 'disruptive' marketing. From the company's website:
"Disruption is the art of asking better questions, challenging conventional wisdom and overturning assumptions and prejudices that get in the way of imagining new possibilities and visionary ideas.
It's questionable, however, whether the world is ready to explore themes of race and domination in the context of a videogame console ad. Although not as wilfully controversial as Benetton's infamous 'United Colours' campaign, many viewers will be unwilling or unable to decode the imagery until it becomes about two different colours of plastic.
Importantly perhaps, the ads are for the European release of the white PSP and are appearing on billboards in Amsterdam rather than in the US where racial tension remains a fraught issue.
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Originally Posted by dom
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I don't think its rascist but why open yourself up to it?
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#252
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Well, then...I hope they release a Yellow PSP.
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PSP-290: Sony PSP GPS Accessory Coming
http://www.i4u.com/article5271.html
Sony announced at the business briefing yesterday the PSP-290 Sony PSP accessory, which is a GPS receiver.
I updated our nearly 1 year old Sony PSP Feature Request round-up, where GPS was one of the hottest requests. Sony needs time, but they get around to release features that Sony PSP fans want to have eventually.
GameSpot has published slides from the Sony Business Briefing showing a blurry image of the Sony PSP GPS antenna. The mounting looks similar to the Sony PSP microphone.
The GPS antenna is supposed to update every second and has a 40 second cold start until fixing the satellites.
There has been already a Sony PSP Map software announced (photo).
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Originally Posted by Yumchah
god i really cant stand how news reporters talk sometimes... f'ing annoying.
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Originally Posted by srika
wait, there's BAD things on the intareweb?!?!?!?! HOLY SHIT WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN!??!?!? ;p
god i really cant stand how news reporters talk sometimes... f'ing annoying.
god i really cant stand how news reporters talk sometimes... f'ing annoying.
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#265
Originally Posted by srika
honestly if there's a movie I like, I'll buy it on DVD and rip it to the mem stick... that way I have a copy of it on DVD as well.
what software do you use?
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:ibpeoplesaysitissuckysucksucksuck:
Anyhoo...I think it's a neato concept. Probably buy it.![Big Grin](https://acurazine.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Story here: http://www.unwiredview.com/2007/06/0...sony-ericsson/
Anyhoo...I think it's a neato concept. Probably buy it.
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Story here: http://www.unwiredview.com/2007/06/0...sony-ericsson/
Nowadays everything seems to be converging into a mobile phone. It already can be a perfectly good digital camera (e.g. SE K850i Cybershot), a mobile TV station a music player or GPS receiver. One of the things missing here was a mobile gaming platform. But it’s coming too.
And who’s better positioned to create a perfect mobile gaming platform then Sony? It already has one - Sony PSP. It also makes some great mobile phones via joint venture with Swedish Ericsson.
Their recent patent filing shows how Sony Ericsson will go about integrating these two gadgets:
![](http://www.unwiredview.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/sony-ericsson-psp-phone.jpg)
The main question Sony Ericsson asked when designing PSP phone was - what is the main problem with using your phone for mobile games?
And the answer was - gaming controls.The numeric keypad is just not good enough to control the action in games. But who says all the keys on the numeric keypad have to be identical?
Sony has already designed very good game controls on PSP. So now they just made a few keys on numeric keypad into a game controls and the problem was solved.
The other problem was that most of the good games are played holding PSP console with both hands and using two thumbs to control game characters. And the phone is operated usually with a single hand and thumb.
Rotating screen came to the rescue here. When the device is in a phone mode, all you have is a simple mobile phone with numeric keypad , menu and function keys. Turn the screen around 180 degrees, your menu/functional keys are transformed into game controls and you have a perfectly good portable gaming device.
Oh and why not use the screen turned 90 degrees to make this device into a mobile TV station as well?
The beauty of it all is that Sony will not have to worry about the games for the PSP phone. Just make it compatible with the standard PSP games and Nokia will have a really tough time catching up with it’s next gen N-Gage platform.
And who’s better positioned to create a perfect mobile gaming platform then Sony? It already has one - Sony PSP. It also makes some great mobile phones via joint venture with Swedish Ericsson.
Their recent patent filing shows how Sony Ericsson will go about integrating these two gadgets:
![](http://www.unwiredview.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/sony-ericsson-psp-phone.jpg)
The main question Sony Ericsson asked when designing PSP phone was - what is the main problem with using your phone for mobile games?
And the answer was - gaming controls.The numeric keypad is just not good enough to control the action in games. But who says all the keys on the numeric keypad have to be identical?
Sony has already designed very good game controls on PSP. So now they just made a few keys on numeric keypad into a game controls and the problem was solved.
The other problem was that most of the good games are played holding PSP console with both hands and using two thumbs to control game characters. And the phone is operated usually with a single hand and thumb.
Rotating screen came to the rescue here. When the device is in a phone mode, all you have is a simple mobile phone with numeric keypad , menu and function keys. Turn the screen around 180 degrees, your menu/functional keys are transformed into game controls and you have a perfectly good portable gaming device.
Oh and why not use the screen turned 90 degrees to make this device into a mobile TV station as well?
The beauty of it all is that Sony will not have to worry about the games for the PSP phone. Just make it compatible with the standard PSP games and Nokia will have a really tough time catching up with it’s next gen N-Gage platform.
#267
The sizzle in the Steak
You have to rotate the screen to answer the phone?!?!?! ![rofl](https://acurazine.com/forums/images/smilies/rofl.gif)
I think they got it backwards. Imagine holding that thing to your ear with the screen rotated 90 degrees!!!
...another potential "swing-and-a-miss" for Sony.
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I think they got it backwards. Imagine holding that thing to your ear with the screen rotated 90 degrees!!!
...another potential "swing-and-a-miss" for Sony.
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Originally Posted by Moog-Type-S
You have to rotate the screen to answer the phone?!?!?! ![rofl](https://acurazine.com/forums/images/smilies/rofl.gif)
I think they got it backwards. Imagine holding that thing to your ear with the screen rotated 90 degrees!!!
...another potential "swing-and-a-miss" for Sony.
![rofl](https://acurazine.com/forums/images/smilies/rofl.gif)
I think they got it backwards. Imagine holding that thing to your ear with the screen rotated 90 degrees!!!
...another potential "swing-and-a-miss" for Sony.
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And oh (not to Waldorf specifically), did I mention that the two mags I flipped that were non-Apple-centric all marked the iPhone as 3 outta 5 stars?
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#269
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iPhone = meh
PSP Phone = meh
Give me a widescreen video iPod FTW!!!!!!!
Sept. 5th
PSP Phone = meh
Give me a widescreen video iPod FTW!!!!!!!
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#270
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Yep, its in Stuff (British Gear Mag).....There is a patent for it already..
#272
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^^ Cool concept??!?!?
The concept of a gaming phone..sure that's cool, but there is no way that "this" concept design from Sony is cool. This design is busted.
The concept of a gaming phone..sure that's cool, but there is no way that "this" concept design from Sony is cool. This design is busted.
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Originally Posted by Moog-Type-S
^^ Cool concept??!?!?
The concept of a gaming phone..sure that's cool, but there is no way that "this" concept design from Sony is cool. This design is busted.
The concept of a gaming phone..sure that's cool, but there is no way that "this" concept design from Sony is cool. This design is busted.
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And I knew it would be you being the naysayer.
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Well...still think it's neat. And yup, I'd buy it.
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Then again, I don't have enough toys.
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#275
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^^ I'm a realist...I don't care who makes it, but that design is ![rofl](https://acurazine.com/forums/images/smilies/rofl.gif)
That design looks like amateur hour.
If this is what Sony wants to put on the market...so be it.
It will continue the line of Sony flops...IMHO.
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That design looks like amateur hour.
If this is what Sony wants to put on the market...so be it.
It will continue the line of Sony flops...IMHO.
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![](http://www.dannychoo.com/fauna/userimg/large/2008Feb18170504_1305.jpg)
Source: http://www.psxextreme.com/psp-news/1162.html
There have been plenty of PSP rumors swirling about, and one of them that erratically pops up here and there is the PSP Phone theory. There has been evidence of Sony's plans for such a unit, but Sony has never officially confirmed anything. However, an eagle-eyed reader has noticed something quite telling in the latest issue of Sony magazine.
As you can see in this photo, the proof is clear- "A new PSP-STYLE PHONE is apparently in development. There are even suggestion that it could be in the shops as early as February." (source-Engadget) Some time ago, we had heard about this possibility from Sony's Jim Ryan, when he said a PSP Phone is "definitely plausible." Many are now starting to wonder if this could be a major announcement at next week's Game Developers Conference, and they're further speculating that this special little unit might actually arrive some time later this year. We'd love to hear something concrete, but hey, we'd like to think Sony Magazine is semi-official to begin with.
This has quickly become one of the primary things we'll be looking for at GDC 2008, so if Sony decides to step forward with their plans for a PSP Phone next week, we'll tell ya immediately.
As you can see in this photo, the proof is clear- "A new PSP-STYLE PHONE is apparently in development. There are even suggestion that it could be in the shops as early as February." (source-Engadget) Some time ago, we had heard about this possibility from Sony's Jim Ryan, when he said a PSP Phone is "definitely plausible." Many are now starting to wonder if this could be a major announcement at next week's Game Developers Conference, and they're further speculating that this special little unit might actually arrive some time later this year. We'd love to hear something concrete, but hey, we'd like to think Sony Magazine is semi-official to begin with.
This has quickly become one of the primary things we'll be looking for at GDC 2008, so if Sony decides to step forward with their plans for a PSP Phone next week, we'll tell ya immediately.
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nifty, but i would imagine the phone would be HUGE!
#280
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that picture looks kinda cool...
is it a slider, that can slide either way?
I think I'd try it out depending on the size and cost. I use my phone a lot for work though, so I'm not sure it's the most professional looking phone out there, but at least it doesn't seem to scream nerdy gamer like that nokia n-gage a few years ago.
maybe I'll just wait for the nintendo DS phone
is it a slider, that can slide either way?
I think I'd try it out depending on the size and cost. I use my phone a lot for work though, so I'm not sure it's the most professional looking phone out there, but at least it doesn't seem to scream nerdy gamer like that nokia n-gage a few years ago.
maybe I'll just wait for the nintendo DS phone
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