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Sony Reveals Its 'Next Generation Portable'

Posted January 27, 2011 by M.H. Williams

The PlayStation Meeting 2011 has come and gone, and with it Sony has announced its newest portable platform, the 'Next Generation Portable'. Unfortunately, the system's name isn't final, but Sony did confirm a number of the rumored details from our earlier report.

The NGP's specs are as follows:

External Dimensions: 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth) (still tentative)

CPU: ARM Cortex-A9 Quad-Core

GPU: SGX543MP4+

Screen: 5 inch front OLED multi-touch screen (16:9), 960 x 544, 16 million colors, OLED

Controls: Rear touch pad. Directional Pad, Dual analog sticks, two shoulder buttons, four face buttons, Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope & three-axis accelerometer), Three-axis electronic compass.

Cameras: Front camera, Rear camera

Sound: Built-in stereo speakers & microphone

Connectivity: 3G, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 

Games will come on a brand-new Flash-based storage medium, with UMD being sidelined for this generation. No price or specific release date for the system was given, though Sony expects the system to be out in Japan this holiday season. 

We'll have more about the NGP and other Sony announcements shortly, but in the meantime you can also peruse this press release.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

M.H. Williams has been writing in some form or another for ten years and has been a hardcore gamer since the NES first graced American shores.  You can catch him on Twitter as @AutomaticZen, Google+ as himself, or on his personal Facebook page.