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GPS add-on coming to your PSP

Feb 6, 2006 gps navigation, sony

An article in the March edition of video game magazine PSM has suggested that the previously unveiled GPS (global positioning system) peripheral for Sony’s PlayStation portable will be released this year, following an early showing for a prototype of the device at E3 2004 (that’s where the pic is from… hopefully the new one won’t be as ugly).

The add-on attaches to the USB 2.0 port of the console and uses a UMD containing navigation software and street data. Updated street data will apparently be available to buy on additional UMDs, although no suggestion is made that data can also be downloaded directly to the console.

In addition PSM’s report, credited to ’sources familiar with the PSP’s U.S. product management’ suggested that a forthcoming firmware update for the PSP, available either as a download or included on new UMDs, will include an integrated e-mail client named Sony Mail, following the recent integration of a web browser onto the PSP’s operating system… read