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01-10-2008, 09:45 AM
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Now it's a phone, too ... Sony will team up with Skype to give the PSP phone capabilities
SONY has teamed up with Skype to enable users of the PlayStation Portable handheld video game system to make free or low-cost phone calls around the world.
In the latest move by the electronics giant to try to broaden the appeal of its consoles amid fierce competition with rival Nintendo, Sony said the new service would be available in late January for PSP-2000 owners.
After a system software update, PSP users will be able to chat for free to other Skype users and, for a charge, call landlines and mobile phones anywhere in the world, Sony said.
Sony said the move was designed to "promote the expansion of the PSP platform as a handheld entertainment system to enjoy a variety of interactive digital entertainment".
Skype, which was bought by eBay in October of 2004, uses a peer-to-peer network to enable users to make free internet telephone calls to each other through their computers.
Skype calls "out" to standard or mobile telephones can be made at low rates.
Sony, which changed the way the world listens to music with the Walkman, is trying to regain its cool credentials after struggling in recent years against innovative new products like Apple's iPod and Nintendo's Wii.
News AU
Now it's a phone, too ... Sony will team up with Skype to give the PSP phone capabilities
SONY has teamed up with Skype to enable users of the PlayStation Portable handheld video game system to make free or low-cost phone calls around the world.
In the latest move by the electronics giant to try to broaden the appeal of its consoles amid fierce competition with rival Nintendo, Sony said the new service would be available in late January for PSP-2000 owners.
After a system software update, PSP users will be able to chat for free to other Skype users and, for a charge, call landlines and mobile phones anywhere in the world, Sony said.
Sony said the move was designed to "promote the expansion of the PSP platform as a handheld entertainment system to enjoy a variety of interactive digital entertainment".
Skype, which was bought by eBay in October of 2004, uses a peer-to-peer network to enable users to make free internet telephone calls to each other through their computers.
Skype calls "out" to standard or mobile telephones can be made at low rates.
Sony, which changed the way the world listens to music with the Walkman, is trying to regain its cool credentials after struggling in recent years against innovative new products like Apple's iPod and Nintendo's Wii.
News AU