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.”
This week there were rumors that Sony would announce a Skype feature for PSP Slim&Lite at CES 2008 and today Japan’s Nikkei Net news organization has confirmed the news that we’ll be able to make phone calls with our PSP’s in the near future. This Skype feature will only be available for PSP Slim&Lite users, owners of a phatty PSP will have to upgrade to PSP-2000 to get Skype on their PSP.
Skype will be free for PSP-to-PSP and PSP-to-PC calls and vice versa, but users will also be able to register a dedicated number for about $20 every quarter. This additional feature provides support for landline and cellphone calls. All calls with Skype will have to be made with an external microphone, but at this moment it’s still unclear whether Sony will release additional hardware or accessories for this or not. There’s also no news on why the old PSP-1000 can’t use the Skype feature, but it could be something in the hardware. It looks like PSP Slim and Lite users will have to download a Firmware Update to get the Skype feature. Sony will release more details on its upcoming Skype feature for PSP during CES 2008.
Neo has made a neat little device called the plug and play for the old phatty PlayStation Portable. It’s a pitty that the little game peripheral doesn’t work on the new PSP Slim and Lite but maybe they’ll make it for the newest PSP in the future, we sure hope so. Another bad feature of this plug and play accessory is that it’s only working with homebrew software and not retail games. It would be nice if gamedevelopers will use the Neo PSP Motion Kit for their future PSP games.
SPEC:
* Ultra small size
* Support ALL version of PSP
* not support psp slim
* support homebrew app & game
* open homebrew lib
* not need extra power supply
* plug and play
There’s another interesting the old phatty Sony PSP can’t do but the PSP-2000 can! At GadgetMadness they figured out how to combine a PSP-2000 and PSP Camera and an Adaptec GameBridge to create your own PC webcam! An extremely cheap solution to create a PC webcam if you already have the new PSP Slim and Lite and the PSP Camera. You can also use this trick to record video directly from your PSP on your PC. The best thing of this all is that the GameBridge costs only $15!
The M33 guys managed to hack the PSP Slim and Lite Firmware. They found out a way to let the PSP Slim run the M33’s custom Firmware, it hass all the features of the 3.52 M33, but they had to leave the 1.50 kernel support out. That means that some of the homebrew software that was developed for the 1.50 Firmware won’t work with the custom Firmware. It’s pretty complex to install this M33 Firmware, first of all it requires a Pandora Battery, Pandora Memory Stick, a phatty PSP with the 1.50 Firmware on it. Real PSP geeks might want to try it out, but be careful with your piece of splendid PSP-2000 equipment!
It took PSP hackers only 24 hours to hack the firmware of the new PSP-2000 Slim and Lite from Sony. Hackers found out that Sony increased the NAND memory of the new PSP to 66 MB to be precise. This proves that hackers are stilly very active in the PSP hombrew scene.
On the official Sony PlayStation forums there used to be a section where PSP gamers could talk about homebrew on the Sony PSP, but now that the new redesigned PSP Slim&Lite is out Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that it’s locking down the PSP homebrew subforum. It’s no longer allowed to talk about homebrew on the SCEA forums because you lose your waranty on your PSP-2000 when using homebrew software. Read the rest of this entry »
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.
