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The pre-release sample of the new hardware arrived withan unreleased firmware revision: 5.70. This may or may not be thesystem software that ships with the retail unit coming on 1st October.5.70 does feature a number of changes over the current 5.51 operatingsystem.
Not surprisingly, it¡¯s the Settings area of the XMB that gets the lion¡¯s share of the changes:
Network Update is now listed as System Update, but, curiously, has the same options.
Video Settings obviously doesn¡¯t have the first four UMD-related toggles.
System Settings now has a ¡°Your Birth Date¡± option (second from top),and a ¡°Display Panel Close Option¡± toggle, which allows you to set itto either ¡°Standard¡± (goes to a clock graphic) or ¡°Enter Sleep Mode¡±.Also ¡°Battery Information¡± seems to be gone, as do UMD-related options,but there¡¯s a ¡°Format System Storage¡± option in addition to the usualMemory Stick format option.
Power Save Settings loses the ¡°Backlight Auto-Adjust¡± option for some reason.
There¡¯s a new ¡°Bluetooth Device Settings¡± entry, which consists of atoggle for switching Bluetooth on and off and a ¡°Manage BluetoothDevices¡± entry.
Hooking up the PSPgo to a Mac via USB, we find that the total availablestorage available to the user is 14.74GB, formatted in the FAT32configuration (hence introducing a 4GB file-size limit).
Sony has opted out of using a conventional USB cable format on thenew handheld. The PSPgo itself uses a wider, thinner connector for theconsole, terminating in the standard USB connector. So, similar to theiPhone and iPod Touch, it¡¯s proprietary cable time. It also appears asthough Sony has moved away from the old AV port that debuted on thePSP-2000 ¨C there¡¯s a common-or-garden 3.5mm stereo jack connection forheadphones only, not the more traditional extended interface with itssupport for external remotes and the like.