PSP phone mod is really exactly what we were waiting for
By Paul Miller 
posted August 8th 2008 9:24AM
posted August 8th 2008 9:24AM
posted August 8th 2008 9:24AM
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Reminds me of Jemaine's camera phone from "Flight of the Conchords"...which was awesome.
At least Sony can now say people are using the space the UMD drive occupied, since mostly they weren't using the drive itself.
SONY's half assed design stupidity amaizes me.
You can't have good 3D gaming without 2 analog sticks and yet they re-released the PSP lite still with just one.
The UMD was good for its day, but with all the space they shaved off, they didn't consider adding FORCE FEEDBACK to the PSP with two simple motors from a cell phone.
Then they don't bother adding an SSD drive, they add a little more onboard memory and just continue about their way.
SONY must be intentionaly holding its products back.
SONY's half assed design stupidity amaizes me.
You can't have good 3D gaming without 2 analog sticks and yet they re-released the PSP lite still with just one.
The UMD was good for its day, but with all the space they shaved off, they didn't consider adding FORCE FEEDBACK to the PSP with two simple motors from a cell phone.
Then they don't bother adding an SSD drive, they add a little more onboard memory and just continue about their way.
SONY must be intentionaly holding its products back.
"You can't have good 3D gaming without 2 analog sticks..."
Or a mouse and a keyboard (or enough buttons to get the basics done).
iPhone killer.........NOT! Just plain double-fugly.
No one with a large memory stick uses the umd drive Just put the isos off that and play off them. I cant remember the last time I used a umd.
That's Jemaine, not Jermaine.
@Telanis
Yep, that's exactly how I spelled it.
This is completely ugly and undeniably non-functional, which is why it belongs on the internet.
This is the best comment on the internet I've read in at least a week. I'm going to digg it up.
While arguable ugly I hardly think it deserves to be call non-functional. It's a phone! What more do you want?
** runs back to the at&t store for a refund **
That's scary.
This needs needs to be integrated into the psp not just slapped in the back.
Disagree. Why does a gaming device need to have so much integration. What's next, integrated GPS for the 5% of the market that would 'find it nice', while leaving the 95% unable to afford the device and get a DS instead?
The portable gaming market doesn't need to be king of convergence. Phones do a great job of that, and yet they don't need to be kings of gaming, either... IMO 'cause the masses don't demand it and 'cause those that do can go buy a separate device that does that task far better and at a sane price-point will far less compromise (battery life, form-factor, usability, cost).
Holy crap, way to botch up the Read link. Are you guys seriously an Internet blog, or just a room full of monkeys typing random crap?
That IS a blog.
Someone got their monthly visitor today -.- ..
So are you saying an infinite amount of bloggers would eventually produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare?
@JC
I thought we all agreed it was the latter?
@Rick
Apparently not: http://www.arn.org/docs2/news/monkeysandtypewriters051103.htm
Waaaay back, just a few years before his death, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. visited the University of Iowa. He referenced the idea that an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters would eventually produce the full works of Shakespeare. He closed that reference with something along the lines of "Well, the internet has proven that theory wrong."
So, as one monkey on a keyboard to another, thought you might appreciate that.
Why is Engadget messing up so many Links lately?
if you look into the same reason that there are not nearly the same amount of articles per day from Engadget than there used to be, you may find yourself an answer.
Because jc told you already.. There monkeys with type writers, what do expect from monkeys, besides smokin cigars and wearing golf visors.. I mean come on you want them to do such a complex task as posting a correct link. you cant make anybody happy these days...
waaaaa, i had to rearrange a couple of characters in the read link to get it to work, it must have taken at least an extra 6 seconds.. waaaa.
you douches have gotta take a closer look at yourselves, probably the types that whine and complain over any little thing in your daily lives and simply letting it extend to the internet...making a botched read link sound like the dr. left a scalpel inside his patient. tape on a dick and man up you wussies!
So, Mr. Swollen Head, what characters did you rearrange in "http:///"? Because you know, they obviously changed it later, and clearly with a wrong one too.
Flippin' idiot.
@Konshuss
Ok so then your saying that if gm/ford build a car its perfectly fine to leave out pieces that are vital lets say the brakes for instance, and that its ok to have no brakes cuz we should just rearrange them with another part and that's how it should work...I think most of the bloggers that posted really don't care about how botched the link is, they are simply stating a point saying that if a tech news/blog site that's fairly popular cant post a link right then they are incompetent idiots a lot like your self.. Oh and anybody that comments about taping on a dick usually isn't a man at all, there usually what society calls a tranny or transvestite.. Are you a transvestite kon..
I know, every time these monkey-tards mess up a read link my brakes stop working and I, along with many other, die in a fiery car accident.
Why are we bringing back a version of the N-Gage to life again?
That sucks. I actually like my taco NGAGE deck. Only thing wrong with it is that it's MMC only
Hey buddy, looks like you got some snot on your psp phone there.
you can do the same utilizing a psp + cheap cellphone + duct tapes. In fact duct tapes is the solution of almost everything.
duct tape and WD40 can fix everything. If it moves and it shouldn't, duct tape. if it doesn't move and it should, WD40.
That looks like a pretty useful thing, and axing the UMD drive is fine, considering all of my friends that own a PSP use the Memory stick for everything (os, games, movies, music)
i would really like to get the link
i want to do it myself!!!
*love*
OMG :O IPHONE KILLER :O OMGOMGOMG
:/
Iphone killer? the psp came first?
At least Sony can't delete our stuff remotely like some company.....
I want to see that on the slim
n-gage bell grande?
audiostreet.net/deathsquadkills
there was mention of force feedback on a portable... hmm... where have I seen that before...
oh yeah... tapwave zodiac, the rumble cart on DS, ???
Sony? Are you listening?
i think this is genius.if any of you idiotholes know what your actually talking about you would know that sony is releasing games for psp for download to the memory card and you can play the full thing, eliminating the need for a umd drive. this has to be one of the greatest hacks i've seen, besides the colt .45 wii mote.