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Now with improved speakers!!!]]>Nov 26th 2008 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 26th 2008 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 26th 2008 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 26th 2008 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
And the battery will last a whole 5 minutes.]]>Nov 26th 2008 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/If they remove UMD then I along with 99% of the original PSP owners won't be getting one. 100% Backwards compatibility is a absolute must
And I don't want to have to use a PC to install games on a PORTABLE.]]>Nov 26th 2008 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
PANDORA HAS DUAL ANALOG NUBS!!! emulators for nearly every console pre n64 will be available eventually with many at launch (already demoed PSX Amiga and MAME) and the developers will NEVER lock down the HW . N64 *should* be possible if a capable developer takes up the initiative

not to say there isn't any HW hacking to be done.... the wifi chip and SGX are highly propreitary so you can be sure someone will figure those out to take full advantage of them :-)

so... you guys have fun figureing out how to unlock your devices will pandora owners tweak them to their hearts desire at will (Linux lends itself to a LOT of tweaking and general customization fun)
]]>Nov 26th 2008 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
10+ battery life (about 8 hours max CPU load from tests)

and an excellent clear no ghosting screen with 800x480 res same as in the newer ArchOS

There will also be far more commercial interest in the pandora since it is not manufactured by GPH which made the GP32 and didn't do much to promote comercial gaming on thier device

well... since you can't ordered the Pandora until they guys that preordered the Pandora get theirs you have the opportunity to see review of it before you by just remember Open source projects like the Pandora get better over time it really is amazing the amount of support it already has and it hasn't even shiped yet O.o ]]>Nov 26th 2008 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
I don't follow. The PSP has a 333MHz MIPS processor and 68MiB of RAM (counting GPU/media processor) . Not that the ARM and MIPS processors are clock-for-clock comparable, but I would be surprised if a successor to the PSP didn't have at least the specs you're listing. Moore's law says that the 32MiB of main RAM in the original PSP-1000 should cost the same as 256MiB of RAM one year from now.]]>Nov 26th 2008 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Unfortunetly, it isn't 1990 anymore and technology isn't doubling every 6 months; so good luck with that. ]]>Nov 26th 2008 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 26th 2008 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
The pandora team is cutting thier buget really close to get the first batch out at a wash.. and make the most powerful device possible within the pricing constrains

question is.... will the PSP2 be out in a year? the Pandora is already on the verge if shipping the first batch

and one thing is certain PSP2 with be loaded with all form of DRM and all that ... Pandora will not and will run most of the software available on linux that alone puts it way ahead of the PSP2 which will likely only run its limited set of apps and games to begin with while the Pandora already has the full firefox ported and ubuntu has been demoed on the device on a 128mb ram developer unit and performance was respectable]]>Nov 26th 2008 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 26th 2008 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 26th 2008 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Correct me if im wrong, but the psp has a lower resolution, lacking n64 emulation, non touch screen, missing controls, no ability to run as a traditional os/computer, memory stick pro duo rather than 2 SDHC slots, a soft keyboard, much less than 10 hour battery life, and a web browser hardly comparable to firefox. 3.
also the processor is said to be easily overclockable to 1ghz, the 600 figure is mainly to reach the 10 hour point.
The psp2 will obviously succeed in playing psp2 games, but based on what we got on this generation, i think im alright with that.]]>Nov 27th 2008 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
The PSP on the other hand will have a high-end SGX GPU and possibly an ARM cortext-8 processor, and the games will be programmed in native C/OpenGL so will be able to take full advantage of the hardware...]]>Nov 27th 2008 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 26th 2008 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 26th 2008 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 28th 2008 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
Dual thumbsticks
Internal SSD: 8 GB or more
Flash memory
OLED display
Rumble
UMD media reader attachment - to pop all your old UMD's in and transfer the data to your flash memory. ie, no UMD built into the PSP2
3G
Slide out keyboard
Touchscreen....MAYBE....
better shoulder buttons...maybe even an R2, L2
Battery that lasts more than 8 hours
Speakers on the front
Microphone built in
PSP Eye toy built in for video chat
Bluetooth
If it has ALL the buttons...should be able to wirelessly connect to PS3 to use as extra controller
NON GLOSSY SCREEN, if its meant to be portable chances are your gonna use it outside

]]>Nov 26th 2008 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
200Hr gameplay time

quadband cellular connectivity, since you got 3G, might as well go that far out...

oh, and since all those built in HDD and crap... might as well raise the white flag on the war on pirating...
-> make it open platform to allow custom firmware
-> write a blank check to the R&D, and watch the PSP sell like hotcakes and yet no one buys games...]]>Nov 26th 2008 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
he also forgot to add 'kthxbye']]>Nov 26th 2008 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
SSD = Flash memory = Memory stick, which PSP uses
Why'd you list it 3 times? PSP damn well better have an INTERNAL UMD drive.

"better shoulder buttons...maybe even an R2, L2"

PSPs shoulder buttons rule

"Speakers on the front, Microphone built in"

PSP 2000 has speakers on the front, 3000 has a microphone

"should be able to wirelessly connect to PS3 to use as extra controller"

IT does that already]]>Nov 26th 2008 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
Heck, some netbooks have 90% of the things you mentioned.]]>Nov 26th 2008 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
- Internal SSD: 8 GB or more -- Not needed, use a memory stick or SD slot
- Flash memory -- This is SSD
- OLED display -- Probably too expensive/short lifespan by the time the PSP2 needs to be on market
- 3G -- Not needed, this isn't a cellphone.
- Slide out keyboard -- Not needed, this isn't a PDA. This would consume way too much space in the chassis
- Battery that lasts more than 8 hours -- Unreasonable considering current battery technology.
- NON GLOSSY SCREEN, if its meant to be portable chances are your gonna use it outside -- Not sure this would really help. Going OLED would help more, but that'd be expensive and would suffer from lifespan issues.]]>Nov 26th 2008 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
Not sure why no one else sees that. Regular memory cards don't offer that much space yet.]]>Nov 27th 2008 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
do you want your PSP to be as big as a netbook? cuz with all those features it probably would be close.]]>Nov 27th 2008 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
SSDs are basically made of lots of regular memory cards duct-taped together. That's why they are larger than a single SD or CF card, and that's why they still cost quite a lot for large capacities. There isn't a fundamental difference in the technology as far as I'm aware. (I mean the controllers are probably different, but same basic stuff.)]]>Nov 27th 2008 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
For cryin' out loud, it's a portable game system, not a notebook.]]>Nov 27th 2008 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
there still is the possibility of dual nubs, consider how the PSP is popularly used as a PS1 emulator now, the Sony would miss a real jackpot having the PSP2 do the same for the hundreds of PS2 games so if PSP2 also turns out to have few really good games, they can fall back on the vast PS2 library]]>Nov 26th 2008 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
Touch Screen = Fail.]]>Nov 27th 2008 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 26th 2008 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
seriously though the CELL Is power architecture based at its core (a mediocre PPC CPU + additional processing units that add uhmph) which wasn't designed for low power situations like the MIPS processor in the PSP or the ARM processors in most cell phones (and the Pandora :-) )

even with a reduced size fab process i doubt it could beat the proformance per watt of an ARM cortex also don't forget the upcoming Arm cortex A9 processor IS multicore so that is going to be really cool to see how that works out in handhelds]]>Nov 26th 2008 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Just sayin'...what's to hold them back from turning the psp into an actual iPhone competitor?]]>Nov 26th 2008 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 26th 2008 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/in fact, why not add Cybershot in there, my last phone was an Ericsson Cybershot, and the quality of everything was superb, and the camera was outstanding, and since the PSP mp3 player isn't so hot, better throw the Walkman guys in there too
an Ericsson Playstation Cybershot Walkman phone, I'll pay the premium for that]]>Nov 26th 2008 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/then i'd say, its screen is not soo amazing, why not make it a BRAVIA?
and since all this adds upto d new PSP being close to a computer why not make it a VAIO as well?
there u have ur, Sony Ericsson Playstation Cybershot Walkman Bravia Vaio!!! how amazing is that?
i'd too pay a premium for it!!]]>Mar 18th 2009 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
I have a first gen PSP and i use my iPhone headphones. They work perfectly. Perfect sound and a perfect microphone. I recommend you get a pair.]]>Nov 26th 2008 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 26th 2008 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/
The default pandora distro will be Angstrom Linux which is highly optimized for small devices such as the sharp zarus also it will not be running the bloated desktop version of X11 but the faster Kdrive version which uses less ram and does about the same thing... so yes ram usage on the device by default should be minimal

The also have a package format standard so all the functionality will work whatever UI you choose the idea is to make it really well integrated for new Linux users to easily get use out of it without haveing to know the ins and outs (although that option is still there)

Also note the pandora already has commercial interest for ports from the dreamcast and other commercial games unlike the GP32 and GP2X commercial games will be there perhaps not in the quantity of the PSP but for instance i have nearly 150 free games installed on my Debian Linux box didn't pay for any of them and they are all legal of course I don't like all of them but there are plenty to keep me busy

also there are some more advanced Linux games comming out like Spring Glest and TORCS and so on Linux can be and is a pretty good gaming platform I have 2 nearly identical PCs same video card in each one is a P4 with XPsp3 the other a similarly powered sempron Debian 5.0rc1 Linux 2.6.25 I have the same version of several games installed on each (FoFix a fretsonfire mod that looks decent, quake3, saurbraten flightgear TORCS) and the FPS and responsiveness is nearly always higher on Linux]]>Nov 26th 2008 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 26th 2008 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 27th 2008 5:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 27th 2008 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Congratulations on having one of the most unimaginative company logos I've seen.

Regards,
Joe Consumer
(reading your press releases while chomping on salted snacks)]]>Nov 27th 2008 7:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 27th 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Nov 27th 2008 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/26/imagination-technologies-said-to-have-signed-on-with-sony-for-ps/Dec 2nd 2008 5:03PM