PSM confirms Sony Mail integrated client, GPS addon coming
March 06 PSM describes an upcoming PSP firmware update that will include an e-mail client. Sony Mail will let users setup a PSP e-mail account using the PSP's unique system ID instead of wrestling with server setup.
Hopefully it'll have the ability to access more than just the PSP account. I can almost smell the unified login, baby.
A GPS addon is on the way later in 2006 and will be accompanied by the release of map UMD's.
According to a second article "leaked" from the now infamous March 06 PlayStation Magazine (which is already credited with an article detailing an Xbox Live-killer service and PlayStation 3 deets) Sony will include a new "Sony Mail" client on an "upcoming" (homebrew hating) firmware update that will allow users to setup a new email account using their PSP's unique system ID. Nice, but PSP users can already access web-based email accounts. However, the article goes on to say that Sony will also be releasing a GPS add-on "this year" which includes the peripheral device as well as UMD-based software and maps presumably like those already announced for Japan.