Posted Jan 29, 2008 at 09:20PM by Ryan C. Listed in: PSP Tags: Sony, Skype, Verbatim
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Sony PlayStation Portable owners looking to get more out of their PSPs, rejoice! The highly-anticipated official firmware from Sony, PSP Firmware 3.90, is now out, and with it comes the feature to use Skype. Yes, that Skype, the one that lets you talk over the internet free. Awesome!

So, just what sort of services from Skype are we talking about? Communication over the internet, as well as on mobile phones, baby! Of course, while talking to your Skype buddies is completely free, other types of calls need some moolah to happen. Below is a list of services that you can use upon installing PSP Firmware 3.90 on your Slim & Lite:
  • Outgoing calls between Skype ID (Skype ID) (free)
  • General and the outgoing phone calls (dialer, SkypeOut ™) (paid)
  • General mobile phones in the phone (Phone receiving, SkypeIn ™) (paid)
  • Voice mail exchanges (some paid)
Besides some online dough, you'll also have to abide by certain conditions to use Skype. The list of requirements, again verbatim:
  • PSP ® console (PSP-2000 series)
  • Memory Stick Duo ™ (capacity needs at least 1MB)
  • Wireless Internet access environment
  • PSP ® Skype to respond to the voice input and output devices
  • Earphones attached remote control (PSP S140 G-G-270) + headset (PSP).
  • 1 headset connected to the remote system to connect to the PSP.
Tough luck for PSP-1000 model owners, then - but definitely a huge bonus for those of us who upgraded to the Slim & Lite. So go on ahead and fire up those Network Updates!

Thanks to HeLRaZR, jj_ob, and Mickey_424 for the tip!



Hold up, we just got the changelog for this firmware update. It's not the meatiest of changelogs, but it's important nonetheless:
  • Support for PLAYSTATION®Network titles has been expanded
And that's it, nothing else. Here's hoping for a more substantial change log when the next firmware comes rolling.


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   by BaDaPpLe - 2008-01-29
 » Finaly

Wooot


   Re: ~~ - 2008-01-30
 » ~~

Not really...

There goes my PS3 - PSP connectivity again +(

   Re: Mister Common Sense - 2008-01-30
 » This update blows

Screw skype, no support for fat PSPs, costs money anyway.
Support for Playstation Network titles has been expanded BS again? You mean reduced?
No more PS3-PSP remote play?

screw you sony

   Re: rikthelightning - 2008-01-30
 » eventual psp - ps3 connectivity

if this gets decrypted u can copy a file from 3.90 called premo_plugin.prx and replace ur current one, it will then let u access remote play again:)

   Re: ~~ - 2008-01-30
 » ~~

Thanks for the tip, I will try it +)

   Re: iamback(unregistered) - 2008-02-02
 » ...

"Finally" you say? It's only been like 3 days since the official 3.90 firmware came out...

Anyhow, I can't wait to try this out (and the time machine once it's released) on the psp that I got from www.swatcash.com/admin

BTW, I like dark alex's use of words :D You know, with the "pandora battery" being used instead of "unbricker/downgrader batter", or with this time machine instead of the generic "1.50 kernel add on for slim".

Quite clever. I wonder if firmwares will have special names in the future?

   Re: zaniar - 2008-02-04
 » 3.90 CRASH!

i installed 3.90 over network update and it crashed my psp

once it finished installing when i turned on my psp, the MOMENT i pressed the X button, i got the "red screen" then i got the "blue screen" and now my psp just wont work properly :(

oh well

it lived a good lifetime:
zanfankid's psp
April '05 - February '08
RIP old motherboard

   Re: iamback(unregistered) - 2008-02-13
 » z,

use pandora.

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   Re: Mr Toasty - 2008-02-17
 » Seriously!!

Whoever keeps jumping this, ***** OFF.

   Re: pilch - 2 days ago
 » who is jumping this?

Stop jumping this item guys, it's a month old!
   by Jonathanx7 - 2008-01-29
 » BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

FURIKUP pwns skype!

   by FreePlay - 2008-01-29
 » 376th post!

Time to see if we can't decrypt this baby.


   Re: FreePlay - 2008-01-29
 » And...

We can, but there's still KL4E/KL3E compression on several modules.

Got the IPL, though.
   by Someone_PR - 2008-01-29
 » man...

only more support for PSN titles for the 1001 PSP? ouch... nothing to compensate the lack of skype

   by B - 2008-01-29
 » yeah

Thanks for the shot in the balls to us early adopters Sony.


   Re: spicyhamster - 2008-01-29
 » hey

at least you guys have 1.5 kernel. just write a skype app

   Re: Techni - 2008-01-30
 » No.

Not only does the Skype app take up more than the available RAM on the NORMAL (not that retarded ph word) PSP, but the program won't fit in what's left of the normal PSP's internal flash

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   Re: xyal_zx - 2008-01-30
 » shot in the balls?

you freely accepted it the pain when you decided to refuse to switch from classic to slim.

not doing so is like going outside to a porta-potty in subzero weather to go take a #2, instead of using your bathroom toilet. And in this case it comes with a stink fan, auto-flushes and a seat warmer.

They fixed the psp go buy a real one already.
If you like n64 that much then you should know it runs like utter garbage on there anyway.

Now flush and go buy a slim.

   Re: 19diablo93 - 2008-01-30
 » .

Yeah that is a shot in the balls. And xyal_zx, not everyone is made of money. I could barely afford my used PSP let alone go out and buy a brand new slim one too.

   Re: sonofken - 2008-01-30
 » xyal is a *****!!!

theres always one, go flush for a slim? go boil you head you dumb*****!!!! i already forked out for 2 psp phats when they came out, why should i, the customer who supported sony from the beginning go and buy another one??
you prick!!!

   Re: Mister Common Sense - 2008-01-31
 » .

I refuse to buy a PSP slim, mainly because it has features like TV out that the original was supposed to have! Now they make a homebrew resistant version that's worse in several ways like durability and has minimal improvments.

I have 2 fat PSPs and I'd take them over the slim any day, because skype is useless, and 1.5 kernel mode is useful.

You're a dumbass xyal_zx
   by Binary - 2008-01-29
 » oh no

It brick my slim shady.


   Re: ServiceMeister - 2008-01-31
 » useful?

If you use the PSP for anything other than music and gaming, you really just need to get a damned laptop.

And if you can't afford to pay, you can't afford to play. Don't whine because there are those of us who actually managed to save a "whopping" $200 for a new PSP (yes, I got the Vader edition) despite having normal living expenses. If you dont make enough to save the same, then you need another job, and need to quit gaming.
   by Naroon Kasui - 2008-01-29
 » .

Tough luck for you PSP-1001 users...

I smell 3.90 M33...


   Re: FreePlay - 2008-01-30
 » Shut

up.

   Re: KirbySS - 2008-01-30
 » .

Freeplay - Oh lawd, is dat sum butthurt.

   Re: Naroon Kasui - 2008-01-30
 » .

Shut up why, exactly? I express my feeling of sorrow for those who are still with the PSP-1001, and that's bad now? I think you're the one who needs to shut up.
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   by Goobers - 2008-01-29
 » ...

first, a comment...

Skype is all that and a bag of chips... but for those that don't use skype, even on PC (like moi)... it doesn't really matter.

so now the question... since i don't read Korean and the firmware isn't available from the US playstation site, yet... so, when it does become available, what else will be in the firmware? will there be two distinct firmwares (phat vs slim)?


   Re: SCLakitu - 2008-01-29
 » Answers.

It's available to the US via official Network Update, the Playstation site just hasn't been updated yet.
The update works on both Fat and Slim, they aren't separate.
Slims get both Skype and more PSN title support, meaning all that's added to the Fat is the PSN support. Those things are all that are added.

   Re: Machzy - 2008-01-30
 » RE: ...

"....all that and a bag of chips..."

What the hell? Dude, stop living in 1998.
   by makaveli7_03 - 2008-01-29
 » so were can we download it?

i didnt see it in the sony website, i wanna try it out in my phat, i got a pandora hopefully it works on 3.90, and if not, i still got my slim =P

(i know skype dont work on phats but i wanna see the other features)


   Re: Toy Machine - 2008-01-30
 » hm..

when u say "the other features" do u mean the almost useless PS3 game titles? becuase thats it.....
   by Beno__ - 2008-01-29
 » Sony are getting smarter...

They released this just 2 weeks after 3.80M33 was released. They are definitely getting smarter. They are trying to keep people off custom firmwares by giving new features in original firmware.


   Re: Mister Common Sense - 2008-01-30
 » .

I wouldn't call those features, I'd call it useless crap with a higher number assigned to it.

   Re: SCLakitu - 2008-01-30
 » RE: Sony are getting smarter...

>>They are trying to keep people off custom >>firmwares by giving new features in original >>firmware.

You mean like what they've been doing since firmware 2.00? They've been adding new features along with exploit patches with newer firmwares for a long time. Like bumping people over to 2.00 from 1.50 with the internet browser. It's nothing new.
   by mrgrim94 - 2008-01-29
 » cfw

when will this be decrypted and ported to original(screw dumb phat nick-name) it'll probably have to use some memory stick space to compensate for lack of 'ram' i still don't believe that argument though becuause how can skype take more ram than a game, it doesnt make since to me /endrant


   Re: makaveli7_03 - 2008-01-29
 » i dont think ram was the problem

the problem was flash space, its no secrete that the phat psp has been running out of space with all the new features, that is why they added much more flash space to the slims, although it seems that sony has not yet used the little space they have in flash2 and flash3
   by OuTLaW@hotmail.com - 2008-01-29
 » KOOL

NICE ON SONY

   by 123PSP - 2008-01-30
 » damn it sony

if sony really likes their customers they cud hav some option to redirect the flash0 files required to run skype and other features that mite come in the future to our memory stick for the phat psp


   Re: Techni - 2008-01-30
 » No.

That makes it so much easier for the system to be hacked. They'd be allowing homebrew on un-CFW'd PSPs

   Re: Hatter - 2008-01-31
 » to techni

I think what he means is making it an eboot sort of like noobz did with "Furikup"
   by soopergooman - 2008-01-30
 » I did it, I confess

I updated t the new fw from D_A's custom firmware. wasnot aware that this was possible as my pandora stick gave out for some reason, then my phat psp couldn't run homebrew so I guess I'm done to. Skype on the go. Finally.

   by pspslim2000 - 2008-01-30
 » dark alex

here comes dark alex again, watchout sony!

   by jaime4272 - 2008-01-30
 » psp ring

so after all this has any budy heard the psp tone or ring when a incoming call or what is it going to like,this is greate

   by Binary - 2008-01-30
 » Support for PLAYSTATION®Network titles has been expanded

LMFAO


I was going to say. WTF?

   by jaime4272 - 2008-01-30
 » psp gps

now that we have skype.this makes the psp a multy media and funtion divice.the psp is becoming a greate peace of hardware and with the gps coming and i hope is soon this will make the psp an indespensable divice
and with the internet connection an a station base we are in busuness tv.radio.internet.phone.vidio.music.muvies.gps.games.etc
so you see

   by FreePlay - 2008-01-30
 » FYI

It's most DEFINITELY using way too much RAM to run on a fat PSP, regardless of where the Skype files are.

It unloads your custom background and custom theme just to load this.

All the sound effects are exactly like the PC ones.

The audio quality is decent; I had a friend in Ireland call me via his Skype cell and I could make him out quite clearly.

There is NO TEXT MESSAGING.

Looks like I'll be grabbing a PSP headset.

   by jaime4272 - 2008-01-30
 » ring

did any budy hear the psp ring yet.rrrrrriiiiiiggg

   by Stealth! - 2008-01-30
 » So..

Im assuming people with the original PSP doesn't get skype, but we get PSN support. And what games will be supported with this FW update. I haven't updated my PSP since the 3.73 or something update.


   Re: zeecron - 2008-02-02
 » update

Lol i havent updated my psp since like 3.52 i think. The internet radio everybody freaks out about is lame. I use homebrew pspradio that just recently got updated. Sony keeps updating so much im waiting on one good fw upgrade to stick for a while before i take the time to upgrade mine. Plus waiting on some good features skype is crap. Ill just use furikup. Hope GPS comes to the US soon!
   by jaime4272 - 2008-01-30
 » psp

psp update v3.8 radio v3.9 skype

   by jaime4272 - 2008-01-30
 » psp update

maybe v4.0 wil bring gps tools software for the use of gps reciever can't wait till then so i can use my gps


   Re: eddib - 2008-01-30
 » divx

would be nice
   by cenobyte - 2008-01-30
 » looking forward

to custom firmware 3.90 m33 !

version 3.80 doesn't really add any useful features. The radio player sucks, but skype on the psp slim would really be a feature worth creating a custom firmware for.

We're counting on you DAX ;-)

   by mr.x256 - 2008-01-30
 » Go! Messenger

I have noticed that this update contains Go! Messenger (wich I still need to try out). How many people were aware this was also coming in this update?

   by ScubaSteve04 - 2008-01-30
 » Pandora Back????

has anyone tried to pandora back to 3.80 m33 after updating to 3.90... i want to check it the skype feature but im still hesitant


   Re: SCLakitu - 2008-01-30
 » It works.

It will always work. Pandora starts before the firmware can do anything.
   by Mentality - 2008-01-30
 » I Think.....

This could be possible on the PHAT PSPs running on custom fimrware if people decide to move on from 1.50 Kernal Access, remove location free player and some language packs and replace them with the skype functionality. Dark_Alex could probably do this, but with people still requiring 1.50 kernal for older homebrews its likley that it won't actually happen.

Either way since it probably won't happen, I'll stick with 3.80M33 until something that actually applies to my PSP comes out.

   by Metal Jody - 2008-01-30
 » oooh

so this thing is like a phone? Sony needs to get with Cingular.

   by Pro2010 - 2008-01-30
 » difficulty updating my psp

I am having difficulty updating my psp from firmware 3.52 M33-4 to 3.80 M33


   Re: Mister Common Sense - 2008-01-30
 » .

wrong topic, but you have to set the game folder to load 3.52 firmware applications in the recovery menu.

   Re: Machzy - 2008-01-30
 » .

Awwww, thanks man!
The whole time my PSP was like "You need 3.52 M33-3 or higher...." and I have M33-4.
Man, I was trying for about an hour to figure that out....my config was set on 1.5.
Sweet!
   by Pro2010 - 2008-01-30
 » machzy

where do i need to go to find an answer for
I am having difficulty updating my psp from firmware 3.52 M33-4 to 3.80 M33



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