There’ve been rumours about a PSP phone ever since Apple put us out of our misery and admitted that yes, it was making an iPhone. Sony has yet to follow suit though - focusing instead on releasing everything BUT a phone attachment as peripherals for its handheld gaming device.
Well, a random Japanese hacker has gone and done it for them, splicing his PSP with a touchscreen mobile handset to create The Ultimate Gaming Phone. Well, that’s as long as you don’t mind losing the ability to insert UMD discs, which means, er, not being able to play traditional boxed PSP titles.
Okay, the concept needs a bit of work. Still, we’d love one of these things to use in public, just to see people’s faces.
UK firm Censorit has been quick off the mark following the recent Byron Review, which looked at child safety and new technology, and spurred calls for more content filtering.
The company has launched a subscription-based filtering service aimed at web-enabled phones, portable media players and handheld games devices, which will let parents protect their kids from inappropriate content.
The phones angle is interesting, since Censorit is targeting handsets with built-in Wi-Fi, which get around the age-restrictions imposed by the mobile operators on their own networks. In theory, say, a child surfing the mobile Web through Vodafone can’t access porn and gambling sites, but if they switch to their phone’s Wi-Fi connection, they can. Continue reading ‘Censorit launches web-filtering service for iPod Touch, PSP, DS…’
The PSP Phone is still being strongly denied by Sony, but in the meantime how about a Phone PSP?
Sony has used CES to announce that it is bringing the popular VoIP app Skype to its mobile games platform, starting with the next firmware update.
The update will add a Skype icon to the Network menu and will support both SkypeOut and SkypeIn to let you make and receive calls to and from ‘real’ phones in addition to Skype-to-Skype chatting.
Owners of older PSPs will be disappointed to learn that the firmware will only work with PSP-2000 devices (e.g. the PSP Lite) but don’t feel too down if you have a ‘fat’ PSP as Homebrew coders Noobz have released Furikup - a free, open source VoIP app that should work with any SIP-based provider such as SIPGate, providing your PSP has been hacked to play homebrew software.
