Just like I foretold in an old post, I can now see STC.com on my new Sony Playstation Portable. I bought it on Tyler and Mike’s hearty recomendations. Here is my review:
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100 WORDS ON THE PSP
Too big for a pocket, but much lighter than the laptop in the messenger bag, the PSP offers a lot of fun in a small package. The games are on par with the PS2 and can be networked through WiFi—this pleases the geeks. With an expanded memory card, the PSP can play music (via a crappy interface) and also movies—ideal for long flights. The screen is huge compared to all other handhelds (squinting at you, video iPod) and the battery life is stellar. Only downsides are Sony’s proprietary road blocking of adding content and the web browser sucks.
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Here’s a rant that is an addendum to the short review. After shelling out $250 for the PSP, Sony expects you to spend another $20 for the Sony Media Manager, which is required to do anything on your PSP. That is just in poor taste, like a plate sharing charge at a really expensive restaurant. Why don’t they just charge $270 and put the damn CD in the box?
This this cartoon sums up my feelings on the product. It pisses me off. iPods piss me off. Microsoft pisses me off. Sprint pisses me off. I want my parepheral devices to appear like external drives that I can drag and drop my media into anyway I want. If you have no idea what that means, then fine. You can go watch American Idol and pay ten cents to vote. Me, I’m going to hack that shit and download like mad forever. I’m going to fastforward commercials. I’m going to save things from my DVR. I’m going to copy DVDs and post files that work on the iPod or PSP. And eventually I’ll make money from you by making easy what they try to make hard. They can annoy me but they can’t stop me.
UPDATE 4/26: Sony released PSP frimware version 2.70 today which addresses some, but not all, of the issues I have with the device.