PSP : Hackers add Web, chat to it!
Hello!
Following up Irongeek’s thread here about “Mobile Hacking with a Gameboy DS/Sony PSP” - http://www.antionline.com/showthread...&highlight=PSP
Here is the latest update about gaming handheld used as tool for exploring more online capabilities.
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Source – CNN Technology News -
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.gam...eut/index.html
Hackers add Web, chat to PSP
Tuesday, April 5, 2005 Posted: 4:42 PM EDT (2042 GMT)
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Sony Corp.'s new PlayStation Portable is turning into a great tool for Web browsing, comics reading and online chat -- and it also happens to play video games, movies and music, if you prefer that sort of thing.
The $249 PSP handheld video game player went on sale in the United States on March 24, and it took very little time before techies added the kinds of functions to the PSP that Sony did not include -- and may never have intended. One man needed only 24 hours to get a working client for Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, an older messaging platform.
"I was on IRC, and someone mentioned how cool it would be to use their PSP on Wi-Fi at Starbucks to talk to people over IRC. I said, 'I can do that', so I began working on it immediately," said Robert Balousek, creator of PSPIRC (
http://www.pspirc.com ), in an email interview.
A number of people have already set up such portals, formatted to fit in the PSP's screen and offering links and a place to enter Web addresses. The technology blog Engadget has rounded up a number of those links.
- PlayStation Portable in one CooL wireless gaming device turned into wireless Browser and Chat device. What’s next? It will become a tool for exploring more things (naughty things). And it’s wireless! Is it possible to connect a portable keyboard as well on this gadget? Like those of Nokia’s mobile and Pocket PC’s? And one last thing, about wireless security on this gadget, how it will then be handled? Just a thought… :D
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