Mylo Widgets

Sony has finally created a site where they’ll be releasing widgets for the Mylo personal communicator. They started with 5 on the site for now, and they’ll be adding more, but the exciting part is that if you are feeling generous you can create your own and post them on the site too.

Its more like a community effort, Sony will only release a few every so often to keep things going, but they are really depending on the community of Mylo COM-2 users to really get the ball rolling. Right now they have a world clock, calculator, calendar, and a couple others up, more as they come in from users like you.

Sadly though, they are only available for COM-2 owners, they won’t work on the COM-1. So, go get you some widgets, or start developing, click the via link to get to the Mylo Labs. [sony]

New Walkman MP3 players From Sony

They have Bluetooth, noise cancellation, a healthy-sized screen, and a 33 hour battery life at the bottom, 36 at the top. For video you get the 320×240 LCD display that can play video at up to 30 frames per second for up to 10 hours, or at the least 9.5 hours.

They have FM tuners built in and varying size screens from 1.8” all the way up to 2.4-inches. As I mentioned, some of the players have Bluetooth built in which can be used to connect to a Bluetooth stereo, headset, you name it as long as it works with the A2DP profile.

They work with all the common media formats including MP3, WMA, AAC, PCM, JPEG, AVC, and MPEG-4. the pricing ranges greatly with the bottom of the line missing some of these nicer features and only having 4GB of storage for $150, all the way up to a 16GB model with everything running $320, there are a total of 7 new players in all and they all look amazing. [sony]

Skype on the PSP

Go get the update now! Firmware 3.90 offers up Skype, well, that’s the major addition from the update, I have no clue what else it does, but after you have Skype on your PSP you probably won’t care either.

The downsides are as follows, first, you have to have a PSP-2000, aka the PSP Slim. The second is that the little remote that came with that model PSP, yeah, you had better still have it, as its apparently necessary (probably where the microphone is).


Other than that you get the update, plug in the remote and headset, connect to WiFi, make sure there is space on your memory card for the Skype software, and then navigate to the Network menu and select Skype. From there you can either sign in, or create a new account if you don’t already have one, after you do that you just select someone from your contact list and call away.

Sony offers up new skins Vaio T series

Sony is bumping the processor speed for their T series Vaio’s from 1.06GHz to 1.2GHz. On top of that, from Sony Vaio Style Japan you’ll be able to get some new skins for your notebook.

A couple of the skins look fairly professional, kind of like nice wallpaper, while the other two offer some actual art for the back of your notebook. The extra 140MHz on the processor speed isn’t that big of a deal, but it might be noticeable when you try and multi-task on your notebook.

The new Vaio T series notebooks with these skins are selling for $1583 in Japan. Of course the regular colors will still be available as well. [akihabaranews]