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Wad
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 Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:53 am Post subject: Go!Messenger launches Friday, its free...........for now |
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Go!Messenger launches Friday, its free...........for now
BT & Sony announced today that they have launched Go!Messenger, the new wireless communication package for PSP. Go!Messenger will allow gamers to Video, Voice and Instant Message (IM) each other from anywhere in the world all from their PSPs. The press release states its FREE, but as you may have seen in an earlier report its only free for now and may not be in the future. They plan for now is to get you all using it and then figure out how to charge you for it. Update: it apparently won't be available until Friday.
Press Release
Brings Friends Closer Together With Go!Messenger
Video chat, voice chat and instant messaging for PSP
27th February 2008. Friends and Gamers can be that little closer together with the launch of Go!Messenger, the new wireless communication package for PSP™ (PlayStation® portable) from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) and BT.
PSP users can now keep in touch with each other, for free[1], from any wireless broadband internet connection. Go!Messenger will allow gamers to Video, Voice and Instant Message (IM) each other from anywhere in the world all from their PSPs. When connected to a Go!Cam, the attachable video camera and microphone for PSP, users also have the ability to make video calls to their friends and leave fun video and voice messages.
Go!Messenger has been developed in partnership with BT, allowing users to connect to wireless broadband at over 2,500 BT Openzone hotspots and in and around city centres. Users will have the freedom of a mobile phone except that through Go! Messenger all calls to other users are free1.
“With Go!Messenger, the PSP is pushing new boundaries, adding unique communication features to all the existing multimedia experiences,” said Stephane Hareau, PSP European Marketing Manager. “Enabling more than 8.5 Million PSP users across the SCEE region to communicate with each other, through Video or Voice chat, truly confirms the always evolving nature and potential of PSP."
Warren Buckley, BT Group Director Mobility & Convergence said, “By working with PlayStation, BT is helping to consolidate PSP as a communications and entertainment device that will sit at the heart of a PSP user’s digital lifestyle. For the first time, the PSP community can stay constantly connected through voice and video chat and instant messaging both in and out of the home. We believe that this exciting development will only help SCEE to attract even more customers for the PSP.”
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dbarrade
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Sweet, so we can use this as video / voice comms whilst playing PS3 games whilst we wait for them to get in game XMB sorted!
Not that I've seen either of you on for ages...
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Wad
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Sounds like it is a possiblilty mate. I havnt been on that much recently on either console. I get maybe 30mins of play in every couple of days. Sundays and Mondays i have more time as the girls watch the Dance show. 
Thailand on the 1st April - most of my time has been spent planning this and the money needed
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dbarrade
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Thailand would be awesome, I love Tom Ka Chicken Soup
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