This week the new Firmware Update for the PSP will be released by Sony Computer Entertainment. One of the cool features this update will feature is the integration of Google. The Google search engine will get a special look and interface. Another addition is the possibility to change the speed of movies on your Memory Stick.
Source: Bonus! Level
Tomorrow Sony Europe will drop an update in the PlayStation Store for the PSP Slim&Lite that willa llow you to use an instant messenger like AIM or MSN on your PlayStation Portable. Go!Messenger allows you to do text chatting and video chats with the Go!Cam for the PSP.
“Enabling more than 8.5 Million PSP users across the SCEE region to communicate with each other, through Video or Voice chat, truly confirms the always evolving nature and potential of PSP.”
Source: Wacka Gameblog
This week Sony officially announced Skype for PSP Slim&Lite, but when we first heard the news there was no word on why the PSP-1000 wasn’t getting a Skype update. Sony announced that the original PlayStation Portable can’t run Skype because it only has 32 MB internal memory, while the new PSP Slim and Lite has 64 MB. Thanks to this memory Sony was able to make Skype run smoothly on the sexy PSP Slimline.
Sony has released a smaller PSP Firmware update coded 3.73. You can download this new PSP system software now via Network Update. The only thing it does is that it improves the operation of the UMD drive to adress cases in which the UMD drive occasionally suspends and fails to reload data. Updating to Firmware 3.73 should kill this failure.
After the pretty neat announcement of Remote Play Applications for PSP Slim&Lite and PS3 Kas Hirai from Sony Computer Entertainment has announced a version of the PlayStation Store accessible by PCs. Japanese gamers can already start downloading original PlayStation One games for the PlayStation Portable without having to use a PlayStation 3 to connect to the PlaySation Store (PSS). Too bad we Americans and Europeans can’t use the Japanese PlayStation Store, let’s hope there will be a US and European version of the PSS in the future.
During the Tokyo Game Show Kazi Hirai from Sony Computer Entertainment used a PlayStation Portable to turn a PlayStation 3 on over the Internet. The new feature will soon be available in a future firmware update. You’ll also be able to put your PS3 asleep using the new PSP Slim&Lite. Other Remote Play Applications is using your PSP as a second screen in the Formula 1 Racing game and using multiple PSP Slimline’s as PlayStation 3 controllers. Sony is planning more multimedia options and connectivity between the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable.
Just a minute ago we posted the first exclusive PSP Slim and Lite hands-on impressions from Kotaku and now we have more first thoughts of the new PSP Slim and Lite. First of all the PSP Slimline system ships with Firmware 3.60 preloaded on the handheld. The menu has completely changed and two of the most important changes are:
USB Charge: Now you can charge via USB instead of via A/C
UMD Cache: You can save power by reducing the frequency at which the PSP Slim and Lite reads from your UMD game or movie.
There are also some new menu settings when hooking up your Sony PlayStation Portable Slimline Lite to your television. Via the Switch Video Output you can now watch movies, games, pictures on your TV screen from your PSP Slim/Lite. Your TV has to be of the 16:9 or 4:3 type to use this option. You can also install a screensaver on your PSP and you can set the timeout from 0 to 15 minutes.
