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New Firmware, and How it’s ‘Go’ing to Affect PSP Go
08/15/2009 Written by JohnDraisey
Despite being what Sony called “the worst kept secret of E3″, the PSP Go grabbed the spotlight at the Los Angeles based gaming convention with its sexy, compact design, and slick new hardware features. And as it turns out, the new PSP Go will be shipping with brand new firmware, and sports some interesting new OS abilities.
A pre-release sample of the new PSP Go came installed with a preliminary version of Firmware 5.70 (the PSP is currently running on version 5.51), and the folks over at Digital Foundry were able to hunt down every single addition and tweak to the handheld’s OS they could find. Here are some cool facts about the firmware’s capabilities, and how it relates to the Go.
- Power Save Settings no longer have the “Backlight Auto-Adjust” option.
- System Settings now has an option to list your birth date.
- System Settings also has a “Display Panel Close Option”. Choosing “Standard” will show a clock on the screen, while “Enter Sleep Mode” will ensure your PSP is saving power while it’s clamped shut in your pocket.
- Network Update has been rebranded as the “System Update”.
- The UMD-related toggles from Video Settings are appropriately missing.
- “Bluetooth Device Settings” lets you switch the bluetooth wireless on and off, as well as manage your bluetooth devices.
- New “System Storage” folder gives ability to save data onto the system’s internal flash memory.
- Total storage available is 14.74 GB, just a hair more than the 16 GB iPod Touch (14.64GB).
- USB data transfer is 7.4 MB per second.
- Almost no difference between Memory Stick and Flash Storage transfer speeds.
- Now uses the Memory Stick Micro (M2) format, rather than the Memory Stick Duo found in the original PSP models.
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So does it just use Memory Stick Micro or does it use both Micro and Memory Stick Duo because I recently bought a 8 gb memory stick duo for my PSP and I wanted to use it with the PSPgo so I would have about 24 gb.
Nifty! I wonder what this means for the fat and slim models’ firmware.
@bayouboyz
I don’t think there is a way to use memory sticks in the Go aside from the Micro format. I wonder why they made the switch.
to make it more portable and co they could cram more in it
@bayouboyz nope you want use you Memory stick pro duo with psp go but a 16gb micro card is about $50 on amazon
BEST UPDATE EVERRRRRRRRRR !
The M2 huh, that’s the same card in the Sony ericson phones from T-mobile. Thanks for the article the more I see the more I want.
Yes, the new features are fine and all….
But every time I look at these nifty new features I can’t help but think about the staggering $250 price point. While the addition of all of the new settings and even the bluetooth support is great, it really isn’t THAT new. In fact, it costs less to put a hard drive in the portable system than the UMD drive itself which makes the price seem even more unjustified.
Nevertheless I’ll be standing in line with the rest of the suckers to pick one up, but only because I’m a fanboy ^_^.
does any one now if there is going to be a full key board as a attachment or something bater than the other systems had for writing?
it’s too bad Sony makes you use their memory format, SD cards are so much cheaper
I would really want to get one but at that price, I don’t think I will. I do still think that they would put the price down before it’s release.
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