Sony PSP Skype & PSP GPS Announced

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced today the release of a software update for the PlayStation Portable (the PSP) that will allow users to make and receive phone calls.

Version 3.90 hopes to make the PSP so much more than just a gaming system, allowing users to not only travail dungeons in Tomb Raider, but travail dungeons in Tomb Raider while talking to their mothers.

Technology, huh? What a thing.

The software will use Skype to allow users to make free calls over the internet to more than 276 million other Skype users anywhere in the world. It will also allow users to make SkypeOut calls to landlines and mobile phones for a fairly cheap fee.

To use the new upgrade, users need to update their software, register and use a headset and a remote control or Go! Cam to talk. They’ll also, of course, need a WiFi connection.

But wait, there’s more.

Sony has also added Go!Explore, a 3D city mapping tool that also makes your PSP a GPS navigation system. Okay. We’ve got no jokes — you’ve outdone yourself, Sony.

We’ll keep you updated on if either of these options are as good as should be, but, for now, we are duly impressed — let’s see what Nintendo’s DS does to answer.

Perhaps it becomes a teleportation device with the next upgrade?