Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for more than nine years at the Austin American-Statesman and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity, MSNBC.com's books section and The Almost Late Show with Bobby Bones. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.
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By Omar Gallaga
| Tuesday, August 23, 2005, 04:29 PM
So what’s the deal with the firmware upgrade for Sony’s PSP?
The hardware patch, announced a month ago, was at once a promise of good things to come (a real Web browser! More online options! Full-screen video!), but also a slap at homebrewers developing their own apps and emulators for the PSP and breaking through its apparently paper-thin tamper protection.
(The homebrewers didn’t take long to bust through 2.0, though.)
The debate today is whether Sony has actually released the 2.0 firmware in the U.S. CNET’s Robert Dubbin doesn’t seem sure himself even though he found the release online, going so far as to post a screenshot of the Sony download page.
What is clear is that 2.0 won’t be the last update of the PSP. Expect future homebrew-zapping firmware updates, which game experts anticipate will be required for playing future PSP games.
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