Sony CES site mentions Skype

Posted Jan 2nd 2008 10:15AM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News

A long time ago, we reported that references to Skype were hidden in the PSP's system code. Looks like these hints may become something more at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Sony CES website has a brief mention of Skype in their text (see picture, above). Will we see a new firmware revision that takes advantage of this oh-so-desirable feature? We hope so.

[Thanks, Jorge H.!]

Tags: ces, ces08

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

1-02-2008 @ 11:31AM

wisesayer89 said...

that would be a great feature. too bad none of my friends use skype, even when i force them to with a knif.... with love.

1-02-2008 @ 11:34AM

pjak said...

Nice to see...especially the word "Skype". By that I mean, it should be true Skype, and not some BT Skype-clone, or similar copycat system (like which has been mentioned previously). I would hate to install some program (on PC) only to talk to PSP users...

1-02-2008 @ 11:41AM

gerg said...

I think the feature listed just above that is even better, what about on demand TV to the PSP?

1-02-2008 @ 4:41PM

required said...

we've had that since 2.50, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocationFree

1-03-2008 @ 12:31AM

B1gC72 said...

yea seriously dude. PSP has been able to do that for a while. where have you been?

1-02-2008 @ 12:36PM

Alien said...

Cool ... not a sistem seller , but still a great feature :D

1-02-2008 @ 1:36PM

APVangeliLMS said...

on the ces website, when you watch the video for the psp, it shows a girl plugging a phat psp into a tv! (hint hint) that would be cool.

1-02-2008 @ 1:37PM

steve sway said...

Absolutely fantastic news! Now let's see it come out for the PS3 as well.

1-02-2008 @ 3:04PM

bs6268d said...

ya ps3 too

1-02-2008 @ 3:33PM

Chris said...

I will literally jump to the heavens if this happens. JUMP TO DA HEAVENS!@@

1-02-2008 @ 7:08PM

Kspraydad said...

I actually meant to respond to your PSP predictions thread with this very thing!

Yah for Skype...now bring the Go Cam or give me a dongle mic so I dont have to use those headphone/mic combos that are WAY too expensive.

1-02-2008 @ 10:49PM

Noshino said...

hey Kspraydad, you can always make some yourself, its not hard at all...

And if you happen to run into trouble, you can always check guides online on how to make them, that was the "bom" talk when the first PSP Socom game came out, heh

1-03-2008 @ 12:15AM

Kspraydad said...

Linky?

For my self I do have the headset/mic already...it would be nice though so just have a small dongle as a mic and use the PSP speakers (IMO)...that's where the Go!Cam comes in handy....

Hope they bump it to 3 mpx before releasing it in the US.

1-03-2008 @ 1:38AM

Noshino said...

this is the one to the one I used to make mine

http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=socomftb&message.id=6639

hopefully that was what you wanted...

1-02-2008 @ 8:42PM

Robert said...

I guess it'd be good to use if you're in some other country and don't have access to a phone - but how often would that happen?

1-02-2008 @ 8:50PM

joey said...

sweet, got novelty potential

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