The PS Vita is finally here…. Well the Wi-Fi edition is finally made its way to stores today for those who decided to wait a bit longer and not get the First Edition Wi-Fi + 3G bundle that came out. This is Sony’s revamp into the handheld gaming market looking to take a bite out of the market that Nintendo has dominated for so long. For $250 the Wi-Fi edition PS vita comes with a 5. inch OLED touch screen display, quad-core gaming processor, SIXAXIS front and rear facing cameras, rear multi-touch pad, GPS, Bluetooth and standard PlayStation controller layout. You won’t find any onboard storage you will need to go and buy the storage cards that are proprietary and pricey at the moment. There is also tight integration with the PlayStation 3 with being able to play only on the PlayStation Vita against a PS3 user with the same game. Sony could possible have a winner here and really take on the Nintendo 3DS and DS Lin and may even slow down the threat of Apple in this market against the iPod Touch. Check out our unboxing and first impressions video below.
Full 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 microphoneSensors
Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope,
three-axis accelerometer), Three-axis electronic compassLocation
Built-in GPS
Wi-Fi location service supportKeys / 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
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