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The "real" features of the redesigned PSP?

Posted Jun 12, 2007 at 7:24AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PSP Tags: Bluetooth, Flash Memory, Sony

The PlayStation Portable community was literally rocked when gaming site Kotaku unloaded tons of details for the much-rumored redesigned handheld console. However, the said report met skepticisms from the gaming community particularly the info on the 8GB worth of internal flash memory and alleged shift to LED screen.

Website Rumor Reporter, furthermore, categorically stated today that the said story is indeed misleading and (we quote) is "mainly factually inaccurate." Quite interestingly, the said site maintained that it has more credible sources and is now divulging what they call as the "real" details of the PSP Slim. Here's the list:

New slimmer PSP is indeed in the works. Hardware is essentially the same, and will NOT have any big speed increases.
There's no longer a UMD Tray, but a slot loader instead. Design is supposed to have an even "cleaner" look, much like the DS Lite.
The screen is the exact same size, and is sidekick-esque. This means that there's some sort of a flip-factor, making the overall system even smaller.
The screen is still LCD, not LED. Either way, battery-life will obviously be improved.
Sony is considering bluetooth capabilities.
Underneath the screen is the home button, the brightness controls and the volume button. This revision will also include all-new controls for chapter skipping with UMD movies and music tracks.
Not 8GB of on-board memory. 4GB is more likely. However, the storage capacity could change.

Again, we're just reporting unofficial info here. We also clarify that we wish not to discredit any of the various sources lately popping out regarding the looming PSP redesign. The best we can offer for now is a guarantee that QJ.net will be keeping its eyes glued to various channels until we flesh out what's the real deal with this issue.

Until that time comes, we're all free to speculate right?

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all of the stuff that the site listed is possible this time around, unlike the last load of BS. Still though, would you really believe a site who straight up lies about having these official sources, comes out and says that the info they spread was complete BS, and then says here is the real info from once again, some made up source? This site just shot itself in the foot as the most rumor spreading site I've ever seen...they change their story every chance they get...

# ... — Guest 2007-06-12 08:42

lmao ur jus a *****

# Interesting — Guest 2007-06-12 08:45

At least this seems like a possible redesign, I still doubt more than 1GB of internal memory.

# ... — Guest 2007-06-12 08:51

I think they mean LED backlit LCD's, they save on battery life and can give a brighter picture

# lol — Guest 2007-06-12 08:55

"online site Rumor Reporter"

Online site? lol.

# phone in — Guest 2007-06-12 09:01

he looks like he is using it as a phone that feature is not mentioned

# i agree — Guest 2007-06-12 09:20

the psp owners can go ***** a dog lol

# lol — Guest 2007-06-12 09:23

this is more like "yhbt".. for those who know what i mean...

# ... — Guest 2007-06-12 09:28

bad ds owners! sit! stay! go lay down!

# nice one — Guest 2007-06-12 09:32

lmfao. i thought the same thing.

# haha — Guest 2007-06-12 09:50

Yes, because we're all keen and stupid enough to follow random links on a comment part of a blogs which claim to grant us riches lol.

# cool... — Guest 2007-06-12 10:08

That sounds amazingly cool if it does happen, sounds possible, but not nice to the rest of us. I don't expect more than 1 GB onboard memory myself if any, but its understandable that they would give you more now that they are trying to sell PSX games and other PS3 connectivity mini things via online download. I would still not be surprised if this was once again just another online rumor brewing based on the criticisms of the last one. I think Sony already understands is that what they really need is a knockout game, not a system redesign to lose more money on. Put it in the F' an rumor category please...

# look at the picture — Guest 2007-06-12 10:09

where the hell is the camera and gps add on in the USA...when will it be in retail stores? i dont think we will see psp 2 anytime soon i say 2 more years

# OMG — Guest 2007-06-12 10:19

omg you Nerds who cares if its LED or OLED , get a life.

# idiots — Guest 2007-06-12 10:29

You people must be stupid or maybe just illiterate! it say The screen is still LCD, not LED. Either way, battery-life will obviously be improved.

Dumbasses!

# PSP LOVE — Guest 2007-06-12 10:31

He's loving on it not using it as a phone..LOL

# OMG — Guest 2007-06-12 10:33

im trying to get a life cos im a NRed, so you do topo.

# look at the picture — Guest 2007-06-12 10:34

The pic has a normal "now" PSP not one of the new redesigned ones.Do you really think your going to see a pic before it's even built?Much less a pic of some dumbass kid with one?

# sadsadas — Guest 2007-06-12 11:01

sdfasds

# wtf??!! — Guest 2007-06-12 12:00

NO TILT-SENSITIVE (gyroscope)???!!

NO WIRELESS-N??!!

NO TOUCHSCREEN??!!

WTF??!!

this is not an upgrade this is a retrograde!!!!

screw $$$ony

# comment... — Guest 2007-06-12 12:02

so nobody knows when this possible release date is??

# stupid A.s.s rabbit trix are 4 Dumb A.s.s.es — Guest 2007-06-12 12:02

the current psp has 2 gigabytes' of onboard memory,......duh

# :P — Guest 2007-06-12 12:10

Exactly

# Idiot — Guest 2007-06-12 12:53

TehMastr, your an idiot. This is not psp 2. This is only a redesign. Can you imagine how having a touch screen would affect other games already out? if you want a touch screen that badly go get a ds. and tilt sensitivity? wtf dude? Use common sense man. That'd be ok and all for a psp 2, but not a redesign.

Many people will feel cheated cause they bought an older version of the psp and here comes one thats totally different.

# the current psp has 2 gigabytes' of onboard memory,......duh — Guest 2007-06-12 12:56

are you joking me? All it has is the flash which is like 32mb or something like that.

# When did...? — Guest 2007-06-12 13:06

Since when did Q.J start having retards as part of the staff team? what the posters were referring to was the previous list of what the redesigned psp's features were like(it said the psp's screen would be LED). So now before you go calling people dumb, why don't you get a better understanding of the situation.

You come out as being the dumb-ass and probably a kid who needs a smack in the face. Annoying lil piece of *****.

# stupid comment — Guest 2007-06-12 13:21

Wow, you are stupid. This most likely means that you don't have a psp, which means, DONT COMMENT you TARD.

# what? — Guest 2007-06-12 13:41

so you wont be able to put umds on this redisign psp?

because it said that it doesent have a umd tray

# hi — Guest 2007-06-12 14:08

There's no longer a UMD Tray, but a slot loader instead. Design is supposed to have an even "cleaner" look, much like the DS Lite. read you *****ing retard

# dee dee dee — Guest 2007-06-12 14:11

i am a dumb ass ***** with no life go somewhere else for news

# BBP Cheated Comment — Guest 2007-06-12 14:14

On your comment about people feeling cheated for buying and older unit. Though valid are somewhat permissible. I mean come on the PSP has been out for 2+ years depending on your location. I dont feel cheated for buying mine when it came out. Im just not gonna buy the new one.

# slot-load — Guest 2007-06-12 14:24

the new design will have a slot-loading design which i guess will be similar to the ps3 and wii's loading system. it's gonna be a real dust collector though thanks to the huge size of the UMD casing!!

# yea — Guest 2007-06-12 15:11

I wouldn't care if they re did the whole thing, posibly getting rid of the stupid umd. id buy it.

# True true — Guest 2007-06-12 16:12

Thats true, but the changes that guy was looking forward to really should be expected on a psp 2 and not a redesign lol.

# yeah — Guest 2007-06-12 16:35

In all reality a 4gb flash mem is not out of the picture. They could pull an ipod and make a 2gb and 4gb version.

# free psp movies! — Guest 2007-06-12 17:27

freewebs.com/pspmovieworld

# hey man dont get mad — Guest 2007-06-12 18:00

i dont realy know english so am tring my hardest to read all this so you 'hi" dont get mad puto pinchi joto de mierda

# Dissapointed — Guest 2007-06-12 18:22

I am a little disappointed there is no news of a 2nd thumb stick on the right, I know games wouldn't probably be able to use it but maybe if they made it the same thumb stick as the first one (So that it registers as one) people could choose which one to use and we could finally play coded arms and other FPS's comfortably. We still dont know everything so I do have hope until they officially announce it.

# ... — Guest 2007-06-12 18:30

tilt sensitivity would suck on a hand held because when you move it the screen moves too lol it would be annoying

# not cheated — Guest 2007-06-12 20:16

And what did we get for the money? Fully homebrew-capable unit, without need of modding.

I guess they just forgot to list "totally homebrew-proof, non-downgradeable firmware as standard" in the features...

# Hackable? — Guest 2007-06-12 22:00

Im sure one of there main focuses for the re design is making it as hack proof as possible...it may be some time before an expolite is found on the re designed hardware (mothboard esp) that allows for custom firmwares.

But once they do appear im defienlty getting one ;)

OR

Maybe sony is hoping that it gets hacked quikly/is left open for hacking so the massive homebrew community rushes to upgrade and buy there new PSP systems!!

eyy??

# WTF — Guest 2007-06-12 22:17

Guys this news is fake since, going to the source i check it out and he said this is what i gather from various sites, he is adding on several rumors together, so why even listen to this. Seriously, i say dont believe this until sony says more on the matter.

Tehmastr all of that stuff has been thought up by them and they said adding this would not be a great idea, when a psp 2 comes out possibly. Besides Your a xbox fanboy since your saying screw sony, get out of the sony fourms, your just as bad as the guy mister know it all.

# This is why i am not opposed to piracy! — Guest 2007-06-12 23:03

Im getting sick of splashing out money on stuff that gets re-made a year or 2 later. F*ck you Sony, just get it right the first time.

# *****ING IDIOTZ — Guest 2007-06-12 23:38

ok first of all as a proud owner of a psp running 3.40e thnx Dark alex there will probably be a psp 2 no doubt about that because there are alwayz places to improves. Now that *****ing douchbag who sed tilt sensitivity would be kool man piss off please ur an complete and utter *****wit who should go bak to there grandmas place and play their ds. the psp is fine the way it is i mean arent u ppl happy with *****ing homewbrew obviously not whinging in all the forums about bricking and various homebrew problems here is a solution if your worried about your psp getting brick get A *****ING CUSTOM FIRMWARE *****S I DONT KNOW MANY PPL WHO COULD ***** THE INSTALLATION OF A CUSTOM FIRMWARE DO U?

# ***** you sony — Guest 2007-06-13 00:18

i like my psp i don´t need a slimmer one

and im not gonna pay 170 dollars for 8gb internal memory

i boght in portugal a 4gb for only 52 euros

# huh — Guest 2007-06-13 00:52

you good sir fail at life

# Sony Conspiracy — Guest 2007-06-13 01:46

Sony made the psp hackable. This is because they wanted people to buy more psps. Think people, why would such a big company let out psps with such a big flaw. I dont know if their plan is working or not, with all the umd piration. But every single firmware they release gets hacked. Most probably their just stupid.

# wow — Guest 2007-06-13 02:50

I didn't think the staff would through a temper tantrum on their own site. Of course they don't know that an OLED even psp sized would cost high in the thousands to produce. And I'm guessing this came from the previous article that needed correcting. The original poster is just making the connection that an LED screen was obviously not a feature in the first place. I don't want my psp screen looking like a litebrite.

# I wonder — Guest 2007-06-13 05:41

I wonder how much of a price drop the original psp will get once the redisigned version gets released... i think the most upset people will be the ones that buy their psp from today onwards.... I know I would be, but I 've had mine for a while so I guess i dont really care. meh

# OLED +> LED — Guest 2007-06-13 06:18

OLED (Organic Light Emmiting Diodes) are LEDs (Light Emmiting Diodes) there juste organic (witch somehow makes theme thinner...)

" I think they mean LED backlit LCD's, they save on battery life and can give a brighter picture"

and Timmy, LCD (Liquid Cristal Display) don't produce any light and are alway backlit when used as screens. LEDs and LCDs are completly different...

I'M A NERD AND PRORD OF IT!!! xD

# PSP2?!?! — Guest 2007-06-13 07:03

My idea of the next PSP was..................

Small disk instead of UMD's

TILT-SENSITIVE

Two joy sticks

6GB worth of internal flash memory

And a cleaner look

# To Ryants — Guest 2007-06-13 07:07

Haha, close but no cigar. You are right in the fact that LCD's do not create light. But what I am talking about is backlit LCD screens compared to frontlit LCD screens.

Almost all LCD screens created before this year are frontlit, they are less efficient, tend to be duller and can have an inconsistent brightness over the screen. Backlit LCD screen have recently becoming popular, with new MacBook Pros as one example of this technology being used.

PSP currently uses backlit LCD screens, the badly worded article posted by QJ intends to say, "The screen is still a standard LCD screen, not LED backlit. Either way, battery-life will obviously be improved."

Please hand in your Nerd license at the door

And to Mabie A.: Get bent, seriously. The article was very badly worded, and caused confusion amongst the readers.

# ... — Guest 2007-06-13 07:10

Oops, should've proof-read my post above. I meant to say that PSP's currently have a frontlit LCD screen.

# sTUPID — Guest 2007-06-13 07:34

if you be live this you are a retard it even said at the end of the article rumor report so don't belive everything on here we just got to wait

# nice! — Guest 2007-06-13 08:43

It be awsome if they added Bluetooth in :) that way I wont have to use my logitechs dongle that came with my wireless headphones :)

# To Timmy A — Guest 2007-06-13 10:17

I see what you meen, honestly, I never really payed much attention du the differences between front and back lit LCD screens.

Personnaly, I think Plasma screens are better (I like the contrast xD)

To pspupdates : Stop with all the "New psp model news" every other day! there getting annoying + /

ps : knowing that linux's mascot is nammed tux and that mario has a hat because his hair would have been too complicaded to draw, I shall keep my "nerd license" ;)

# to RancidUser — Guest 2007-06-13 11:34

im sure they'll put some sort of brush or rubber/foam stuff in there to keep the dust out.

# Lies — Guest 2007-06-13 12:12

I belive there will be a psp redisign. That Sony guy is probaly sayin that it's not true so they will stop spreading rumors. Isnt this what happened with the 360 elite.

Come on who agrees w/ me.

# PSP Needs ONE THING — Guest 2007-06-13 12:27

We need a higher volume! I am pissed that my psp can't even go as loud as an ipod.

# TO TIMMY A (GO HUMP AN APPLE) — Guest 2007-06-13 12:42

Is ur brain degrading TIMMY A??? The PSP has backlit not front looollll and many other gadgets i.e. cell phones had backlit LCDs since 3yrs ago at least. Sh1tty Nintend had frontlit GBA SP. Now carry on wit ur apple.

# err.......How bout nintendo — Guest 2007-06-13 12:52

er... i was 1st like that wit Ninty and their crap GBA. Sony's PSP is fine as all their 1st products are so STFU u crazy woman.

# oooo — Guest 2007-06-13 12:56

good thought lol but then they wont make any money in their games!...but they will make money in the psp! +]]]

# OMG — Guest 2007-06-13 12:58

Im a retard! >.>

# OLEDs are suppose to be THE next thing — Guest 2007-06-13 13:03

LCDs are currently the thing(AND plasmas).

OLEDs have so much better contras ratio 100000:1 i fink? They r really thin sony should definetly look into these

# Uhh — Guest 2007-06-13 13:47

The PSP has had an LED backlit screen for a long time now. Try finding a CCFL inverter in a PSP, there isn't one!

# is confused — Guest 2007-06-13 14:20

im a weeeeee bit confused, didnt the sony guy just say there was no new psp?

# not gonna happen — Guest 2007-06-13 14:32

8gb flash memory is not really going to happen even if they will really make a redesigned psp..if they plan to realease a premium psp package then it "may be possible". Also, additional buttons & analog nub is not a very good idea if they are going for a redesign..the psp has games and adding new buttons can be a bother.. It's not like cellphones. I bet they will only make it lighter and use lower cost materials to make it cheaper like the previous ps & ps2 redesigns..

# lcd's — Guest 2007-06-13 15:25

the best thing about lcd is when you touch them it does that weird swirl thing... its really hard to explain

# It was just a DREAM so KE!P DREAMING PEople — Guest 2007-06-13 15:28

LOL all this talked was bu!!*****.

But i would love 2 see sony created psp2 on 2009.

With some cool features such as:

Touch screen.

( add on RJ45 plug like usb ) for people doesn't have wireless internet.

PS. I wish sony and microsoft =get together? I want to see PSP2 or PSP3 with a Microsoft Word and etc.

MY DREAM?

# LCD — Guest 2007-06-13 15:29

The lcd better have a faster refresh rate, not ghosting crap.

# PEOPLE 3 THINGS WRONG — Guest 2007-06-13 15:42

hi im the same guy who went raving on about u possibly couldnt ***** up the installation of a custom firmware[ yeah tht freak] i definetly think there are onli 3 things to improve.....1. we DO nedd a higher volume whoever said that is right on the money2. PLEASE SONY GIVE US SOME MORE FREE FLASH SPACE.3. HELLO WHACK A SIMCARD IN THERE AND USE IT AS A PHONE then it would be the ultimate handheld only phone i would know that can run unassigned code [homebrew *****s]

# sup? — Guest 2007-06-13 16:45

actually the psp is technically louder than the ipod. The ipod doesn't have a speaker, and thus the psp automatically wins. Unless you are referring to the headphone volume?

# uhh, spike... — Guest 2007-06-14 00:51

"LED backlit screen"

LCD, not LED!!!

like I said before, LED's produce light... so there's NO POINT in theme being back or frontlit...

# but... — Guest 2007-06-14 04:05

Wouldnt it b better for sony if they released one product? Im talking about, of course, the PSP Phone and the new slim PSP. I think they may be one product, as this would b better for business.

# ... — Guest 2007-06-14 06:11

Okay, I'm going to have to explain this slowly.

Four types of LCD screens

1. Unlit LCD screen. A screen which relies on ambient light filtering through the screen to light it up. Eg calculator, GBA (orig)

2. LED Frontlit LCD screen. Same thing, except with white LED lights to the side, but slightly infront of the screen. The light filtering across the screen lights it up. Eg. Mobile phones, PSP.

3. Cathode lamp frontlit LCD screen. Same thing as #2, replace LED with a minature cathode tubes. Used in larger screens. Eg. LCD TV's, Laptops

4. LED backlit LCD screen. Same thing again, but this time the LED's are _directly behind_ the LCD screen. Eg. Macbook Pros, Rumoured PSP revision.

If you still disagree, search wikipedia for "backlight", "LED" and "LCD". EG "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlight"

There are no commercially manafactured LED screens (other than a LiteBrite :P). But recent advances in tech have made OLED (Organic LED) screens viable. These do not require front or backlighting as they produce light themselves.

The rumour for PSP applies to LED backlit LCD screen. I'd imagine that it would be very likely for Sony to include this tech in the next iteration of PSP as the price is cheaper than OLED, and current draw is less than LED frontlit LCD sceens.

I love being the only correct person on a whole forum, it makes the comments section a great read. Keep up the good work, guys.

# ... — Guest 2007-06-14 16:16

Sony's products aren't even that great the second time.

And call me a fanboy, I have a N64, Xbox, Gamecube, GBC, GBA, GBA SP, DS, Wii, PS2, and PSP.

# .... — Guest 2007-06-14 16:17

All *****ty ideas.

# lcd — Guest 2007-06-25 10:43

That swirl is the crystals being deformed.

# list of systems — Guest 2007-06-30 19:34

your list is the same as mine except for the GBC, I have a GBP instead

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