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The Playstation Portable is boosting its music playback capabilities with firmware 4.05. Nothing official yet, but there seems to be an added visualization while you’re playing music. The v4.05 firmware will certainly come soon, but what I’m really looking forward to is the implementation of a new Sony patent that puts “digital tactile pixels”on a portable device. The design came from the Sony Computer Entertainment, which is responsible for the PSP. Hope Sony announces more than the 4.05 firmware on E3.

[via gizmodo]

What Gemei means by adding a plus sign on their gaming PMP the X760: added TV out, 30% faster performance and a price cut of up to 50%. The X760 + is the same 3-inch screen PMP with GBA, NEO, GEO, NES, SFC, MD gaming support with the usual RM, RMVB, FLV, AVI, MPG, MPEG, DAT, ASF, WMV, VOB, 3PG, MP4 and MP3, WMA, WAV, APE / FLAC lossless. For 599 yuan or around $87, it would definitely do for a birthday gift for a favorite nephew.

Specs of the X760+

3-inch WVGA screen
400 MHz chip
GB, GBC, GBA, 3D games support (network offers doewnloads)
Video: RM, RMVB, AVI, MPG, MPEG, DAT, ASF, WMV, VOB, 3PG, MP4, FLV
Audio: MP3, WMA, WAV, APE / FLAC lossless and others
E-Book, Fm tuner, TV Out
20 hrs audio
115 × 59 × 17.5mm
price: 599 yuan for 4GB

[zol via engadget]

We’ve posted about Yinlips folder PMP, which was shown off at the AsiaWorld Expo. We mentioned that besides being a PMP and a game emulator, it also had a 1.3MP camera on board. Now, that camera has been upgraded to 2MP and guess where it’s located? Very interesting location, though the photo reveals where user presses to shoot. The G70 supports 3 GP, MP4 and a version G70B adds RMVB support. After music and video, support for 32bit games is a major selling point. Other specs include Fm tuner, AV out, e-Book , miniSD and MMC card support and LRC lyric support. No pricing yet until now.

[via imp3]

We’ve noticed this gaming PMP before for its nifty control buttons and comfy form factor Now it’s available in Europe under the Westrend brand as the Westrend Racer. Still plays Flash games, music and supports e-Book TXT. Oh, this guy is the winner of 2008 Reddot design.

[via generationmp3]

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Firmware 4.0 should’ve been but Sony is apparently at a lost what to add to the already feature-packed Playstation Portable, especially after the more recent function additions. Firmware 4.0 adds Google searching to the XMB, video speed adjustment - a nifty trick using the Up and Down button. The video fast tracks or slows down without going into full fast forward or slow-mo. It’s available via the Network Update.

[via techradar]

Sony has added the Go! View service that lets PSP users directly download movies encoded in supported format from  the CanalPlay site. CanalPlay is France’s number one VoD provider, notes our friends from GenerationMP3 although the current available programs (movies, TV series) encoded in PSP’s native format (Sony DRM) number only 120. Recent releases will set you back 4.99 euros and 3.99 euros for older ones.

There are also TV programs for 1.99 euros and even anime (manga) for 1.49 euros. Sony will launch the Pack GO! View for the occasion. For 249.9 euros you’ll get a PSP Slim & Light white, MS 8GB and 3 movies to download and an additional bundle offer with a 4GB MS + a film for 30 euros. Be warned though that the above program prices will only allow you a 48-hour viewing period.

[via gmp3]

Sony Ericsson is throwing a low-end gaming phone at iPhone 2.0 and SDK. The iPhone could already play Quake 3 unlocked, but SE thinks it can do better with a phone specifically made for motion gaming. Don’t worry, though, if you’re a tactile button kind of gamer because under the screen is a four-way control pad that should be adequate for some off-the-cuff gaming.

[via engadget]

For Sudoku fans who are getting tired of carrying paper books around, here’s a handheld from Zhengchang Electronics with 10,000 Sudoku games preloaded. Now, I am not a Sudoku fan myself but I am assuming 10,000 games should last you a couple of years of dedicated Sudoku gaming, so this gadget should be totally worth its price. It’s available wholesale for stores interested in re-branding it and selling it retail. Unlike other Sudoku gamers, it’s completely touchscreen with a stylus and should be a pleasure to play Sudoku on.

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We here at PMPToday have no idea what all the fuss was about. So a couple of Swedes ad come up with an idea of putting GPRS and GPS on a gaming console, so what? Now we hear that Carl Freer, the non-embezzling co-owner of Gizmondo’s parent company, Tiger Telemantics, will release a new version of the Gizmondo device this time running on Windows CE 6.0. Windows CE 6? The same operating system that has been mocked and ridiculed when it runs inside a Chinese-made hardware, will now be used to harness the gaming capacity of a device that was solely responsible for the over $1 billion-dollar valuation of its manufacturer? Freer says the new Gizmondo will have a separate graphics chip and will be an open platform. Target release date is late this year… or thereabouts.

Read an old article on how Gizmondo had it all and lost it all, or nearly all, here. Ferrari Enzo driven by Stefan Eriksson crashes and torn in half.

[photo: gizmodo, story: engadget]

Shenzhen Derisson Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd. portable game-centric PMP will have the honor to be the first device of its kind to boast a built-in camera (that we’ve heard of). Sure, the PSP has the Go!Cam but that one’s sold separately and attached in semi-ludicrous fashion. The DPMP-003’s camera is built into the body. It’s not a webcam but a real photo shooter with 1.3 megapixels with the option to make it a 2 megapixel or 3 megapixel. The DPMP-003 has a 3-inch screen screen and records scheduled TV programs (don’t know how this works exactly but the specs says so). It supports NES games and ASF format of MEPG-4 videos. It also comes with a TV Out and support for music files as well as photos and TXT. Full specs after the break.

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