Our reveal yesterday of the first news on PlayStation Plus for Vita showcased one of the main aspects of next week’s firmware 2.00 update for the portable – Plus will bring free games, background updating and cloud storage.
However, there’s more to firmware 2.00, including an email application and wireless content sharing – features ably demonstrated by the wonderfully dressed Ray Bautista in the video below. The email app doesn’t look like it’ll replace your current smartphone of choice, but who knows, and at least the Vita’s giving you the option.
Content Manager looks much better though – the wired only functionality was pretty poor, so it’s good to see that being tweaked. The Vita will also be able to play 1080p video, albeit downsampled and only in specific file formats.
The browser looks substantially better, though – with much better HTML5 and JavaScript rendering engines. We’re unlikely to see these on the PS3 with the limited RAM, but it’s all good.
mrfodder
What I’m looking for a good podcast app like BeyondPod.
McProley
Great update. When does this go live?
gaffers101
Some good new features. I would have liked to be able to do PS3 wireless data transfers as well as to PC.
skibadee
sounds good to me wanted a email app.
FBZ1501
Some good updates. Yep wireless to PS3 would be nice also the option to stack the icons into folders or at least some sort of icon grouping etc.
Wonder how the cloud saves will work and the auto sync. I didn’t think you could just back you the saves as they are attached to the games??
Broonba
Cool update…….the more they add to Vita, the better.