CES announcements from Sony set to includes new Skype service for its PSP handheld.
The eagle-eyed folks at Pocketgamer have spotted that Sony's official Consumer Electronics Show website is carrying details of a new Skype voice service for the Wi-Fi enabled PlayStation Portable (PSP).A line in the PSP spec text reads: "Call friends, talk trash to fellow gamers or catch up with acquaintances via Skype for PSP system."
As well as turning PSP into a phone, the addition of Skype will further blur the boundaries between portable media players, handsets and 'mobile' content.
Sony is thought to be working on a downloadable content store for PSP and the device already supports the 1seg mobile TV service in Japan.
The list of CES features also includes support for internet radio streaming, which was included as party of a PSP software update package in late-December.
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All the while, Sony has strongly denied the possibility of a PSP phone project with subsidiary Sony Ericsson.
