Sony apparently puts PSP Extended Life Battery Kit back on sale
By Darren Murph 
posted May 25th 2009 9:41AM
posted May 25th 2009 9:41AM
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posted May 25th 2009 9:41AM
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If I get another PSP, it'll be UMD-less and fully hacked.
That is to say it'll be a while.
agreed. Waiting for the new PSP and dark-alex to get it done!
Thanks for letting us know both of you
Now back on topic about the extended battery life, not bad for $45!
Indeed, you'll be dancing to their tune for a while longer per charge! ;)
Can it be Pandoralised?
Doubt it. Maybe with a hardware mod, but they won't make that easy.
I truly believe that is the ONLY reason they took them of the market =/ eh but we've always have gripshift =]
it probably will take quite a while for DA to hack it. my local wally's world has those extended batteries for $39.99...
Couldn't somebody hack a couple thousand mAh into a UMD-shaped extended battery?
And plug it in via USB?
I dont understand, the UMD is basically a cd drive. You want to get more power from a cd drive?
Dear Sony, stop with the proprietary crap. MiniDisc players never achieved walkman success. UMD has been a failure. I will not buy your cameras because they use Memory Sticks, and will not buy a blu ray player because DVDs suit my needs perfectly.
If your going to introduce a proprietary format at least give it some advantage over whats currently available.
Agreed with the rant. The only one you could argue is "better" is Blu-ray, and I'd say the DRM makes up for the improvement.
The idea behind the battery hack though is once you've hacked the PSP, you can remove the UMD drive entirely and have room for a battery where it used to be. Not a bad idea.
Ok, I'm going to get to work on this. I am picturing a umd-shaped battery with contacts at the bottom so it makes contact when you slide it in. Leave the guts of the UMD drive in there just in case I ever buy a UMD.
[If I do remove the UMD guts, does the PSP still operate? Does it need to be there for the unit to function?]
The PSP works without the UMD drive components hooked up...I took mine out when I switched the case.
Wasn't it Sony that had the battery recalls a few years ago? Maybe the August 2008 canned batteries had the same problem as the troublesome batteries.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sony+battery+recall&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g8
'Apparantly' engadget doesn't have spell-check!
I see what you did there!
Yes, "apparantly" so, my friend
Was just about to post this.
C'mon guys. Who doesn't know how to spell "apparently" =/
*apparently*
YES it's about time! Now I can get a real battery for my phat instead of these stupid fake batteries. It was stupid for them to stop making them in the first place.
So let me get this straight, they've made a new PSP smaller than their last PSP with less battery life. If you want the same battery life as the original, you have to add on something to your new thinner PSP that makes it larger than your old PSP? Genius!
I bought the newest 3000 model when it came out and like many others was surprised to find it was much worse than the original that I still had. There's the obvious screen interlacing issue or course - but there's also the fact that it just feels ... crummy. I found that I just didn't like playing games on it as much as the original so I eventually sold it.
At this point we can all agree the PSP is dead right? I was thinking of buying Patapon 2 for it so last time I was in Wallmart I took a look ... There were FIVE PSP titles! Yes, 5.
I can't say that selling us better quality handsets would have saved the PSP, but not doing so seems to have sealed it's fate.
"There's the obvious screen interlacing issue or course"
You have no idea what you are talking about, do you?
PSP is dead?
Every month Sony sells atleast half a million PSP's
Last week alone they sold 125,000 PSP's (On top of that, May/June this year is always a low month for console sales)
The PSP outsells the 360 & PS3 every week... (I'm not trying to compare systems, simply stating if your saying PSP is dead, so is the 360/PS3)
PSP has 27+ games that have sold over a million
Another 30+ that have sold over 500,000
Right now the PSP has sold about 50 million PSP's, and your saying the PSP is dead? heh
Of course, the anti-PSP people will come in and say DS "owns" the PSP in sales, well yes of course... and the number of sales of a VW Bug owns that of a Ferrari Enzo too, which means VW Bug is better and the Enzo is dead.
apparantly, da peepul at engajjett carnnt spel . oh noes!
20%?! That's it?
price drop alert!!.... exactly 1 cent...
Eww.
Ive got one of these for my Slim (the first one). Combined with a slightly larger battery cover I bought for peanuts it's very good. I use it mostly for emu at 333mhz and get 5+ hrs out of it.
As always with the PSP though, don't use it for a couple of weeks and the battery is flat as a pancake.
okay so psp users can now show their bulges in public.
Will it work with my phat PSP(PSP 1000)?