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Excited about the Nintendo 3DS? Don’t preorder just yet. Sony just announced their upcoming successor to their PSP line of portable gaming handhelds and its called the Next Gen Portable (NGP). Sony seems to be really going all out on the NGP as it features a huge 5-inch OLED touchscreen, a rear touch-pad, front and rear cameras, quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processors, and WiFi and 3G connectivity. If you thought the 3GS had some impressive specs, think again. The NGP just basically blew it out of the water. The NGP is expected to release sometime towards the end of the year so if you were thinking of purchasing a 3GS, I’d maybe hold off until the NGP comes out so you can at least compare the two. The NGP seems to be backwards compatible with current PSP titles, although it makes no mention of supporting UMD’s.

Key NGP features:

  • Multi-touch 5-inch organic light emitting display (OLED) as the front display
  • Multi-touch pad on the rear of the device
  • Dual analog sticks
  • Two cameras (front and rear)
  • Software titles on small, dedicated flash memory-based cards
  • Three motion sensors, gyroscope, accelerometer and electronic compass
  • Wi-Fi and 3G network connectivity
  • PlayStation Network access, including ““LiveArea™”, “Near” and “Activity” log features Trophy Support
  • NGP will be able to play PSP titles, minis, PS one classics, video and comics from the PlayStation Store.

Now, the technical specs:

CPU ARM® Cortex™-A9 core (4 core)
GPU SGX543MP4+
External Dimensions Approx. 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth) (tentative, excludes largest projection)
Screen
(Touch screen)		 5 inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colors, OLED
Multi touch screen (capacitive type)
Rear touch pad Multi touch pad (capacitive type)
Cameras Front camera, Rear camera
Sound Built-in stereo speakers
Built-in microphone
Sensors Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), Three-axis electronic compass
Location Built-in GPS
Wi-Fi location service support
Keys / Switches PS button
Power button
Directional buttons (Up/Down/Right/Left)
Action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square)
Shoulder buttons (Right/Left)
Right stick, Left stick
START button, SELECT button
Volume buttons (+/-)
Wireless communications Mobile network connectivity (3G)
IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n = 1×1) (Wi-Fi) (Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode)
Bluetooth® 2.1+EDR （A2DP/AVRCP/HSP）
[via PlayStation.Blog]
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