Sony PSP gets VoIP

Sony certainly can’t do everything. Hence, they have started going to third parties lately in order to expand the PSP’s functionality. First, Sony partnered with T-Mobile to give PSP owners free Wifi. Now, Sony Europe has partnered up with BT to provide “high-quality video calls, voice calls and text messaging” for PSP owners.

BT’s Steve Andrews recently sat down with the BBC to show off the upcoming feature.

The four-year deal will first provide Softphone, a service which will allow PSP owners to communicate with other internet-connected Softphone users (similar to other VoIP services). The program will eventually expand so that PSP owners can make calls to standard land and mobile phones. Currently, there are no plans to bring the software out of Europe. However, there has been a lot of speculation that Skype will be included in the next major firmware update.

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