Who said the software is open?

1) Android isn't licensed under GPL, it follows the Apache license. Sony's allowed to build a closed system with it. Nothing dodgy or illegal there.

2) Being based on open source software =/= lack of security. That's a fallacious way of thinking if you really take a look at the details.

Or rather, Sony isn't following itself. They are the only company to use disk based media on a portable device since its own MiniDisk players and the DVD Camcorders.

Quoting sicksider:

Look okay to me that PSP design. But one thing that bother me.. Flash Cards? Where UMD? It like Sony following Nintendo DS.

Flash Cards are nice because that means games can be big without any sort of size limitation.

Sony actually listened to the fans.

Quoting symbal:

... 3 consoles with an identical controller but i'm just being picky here. ...

Well I had also expected the PSP2 to look a little different, I actually kind of liked the improved Go looking thing we saw.

But as far as 3 consoles with the same controller, I suspect that may have something to do with the PS controller still being the best one on the market ever since its introduction!

Xbox controller were hideous when they first came out, then became less/smaller hideous. Gamecube was smart and just copied the PS design, (but in candy colors of course).

Thank god Sony didn't try to get smart ass and foist that batarang thing on us. That would have been a mistake.

Change to a damn near perfect thing just for arbitrary changes sake isn't just by its nature a good thing.

I suspect that has been one of the fatal design theories that has made such a mess out of FF these days.

I agree that the design could have been more attention grabbing, but I'm still a bigger fan of function over gimmickry.

They actually changed their D-Pad drastically. Also, if isn't broken, why fix it? The DS2 works just fine. And you seem to be ignoring that the PS1 didn't start with the Dual Shock. And the DS2 added pressure sensitive buttons. And the DS3 added new L2/R2 triggers and Six-Axis. They have been slowly modifying it when necessary. If you want meaningless change, just for its own sake, fine, but Sony doesn't feel the need for that(at least in its controller).

There is a vast difference in what I assume you mean by "cartridges" and the flash media used in DS and NGP cards. Flash or Masked ROMs are hardly "old school"

I also feel this is the obvious fault of the playstation pocket.

But its a trade off.

Although you may get nicks and scratches into the glass of a PSP, they are usually not very noticeable unless you unusually abuse them.

And anybody that abusive would pretty much trash anything!

The mechanics of a clamshell screen would fold under that much abusive just as quickly!

Nintendo makes up for that with a cheaper to manufacture system.

IE: cheaper to replace.
(Or: Apples and Oranges.)