American PSP owners will be able to enjoy GPS navigation some time next year. Not only will the platform support navigation and maps, as expected, but John Koller wants to offer something a bit more. SCEA is investigating game development which can take advantage of GPS technology. Koller told MTV Multiplayer the upcoming peripheral “changes the dynamics of GPS but also changes the way developers think about games on PSP because you can start integrating GPS into it.” According to Koller, Sony will introduce the GPS solution to third party publishers and is currently brainstorming ideas within its first-party studios. “There’s been a number of things that our first-party worldwide studios have looked at, and they’ve been trying to look at different options,” he said.

These highly anticipated headphones will be available exclusively at Apple and Best Buy (both online and in-store) starting July 25th, 2008. Beats by Dr. Dre Headphones feature a unique stylish look and fashion, and come with a convenient, hip carrying case. The wide adjustable headband, soft plush hinged ear cups and high-quality Monster cable makes the Beats listening experience unmatched for comfort and sound.

Sony’s next-generation Blu-ray Disc player, model BDP-S350, is now available across the country at Sony Style retail outlets, sonystyle.com and other authorized Sony retailers.Our new Blu-Ray player features 7.1 Channel Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus decoding and bit-stream output, as well as DTS HD high resolution Audio and Master Audio bit-stream output.
The BDP-S350 supports AVCHD discs encoded with x.v.Color™ (xvYCC) technology, an international standard for wide color space reproduction. The standard expands the current data range of video by about 1.8 times, allowing the players to output more natural and vivid colors similar to what the human eye actually sees in the natural world. The players also feature compatibility with an array of video formats, including BD-R/RE (BDMV and BDAV modes), DVD+R/+RW, DVD-R/-RW, CD, CD-R/RW (CD-DA format), and JPEG on DVD/CD recordable media.

The new BDP-S350 is now available for about $400 at Sony Style stores, online at sonystyle.com, at military base exchanges, and at authorized retailers nationwide.

The M528 will first appear in the Taiwan area in late July and should be priced in the middle of the UMPC range at an equivalent of $750; the device centers around the extremely energy-efficient 800MHz version of the Atom that should extend battery life even with additional performance and features versus the earlier A110 chip.

The handheld revolves around a 4.8-inch, 800×480 touchscreen but also has a slide-out keyboard and a directional pad. Internet access is supplied over Wi-Fi as well as 3G cellular providers using HSDPA, either of which lets the M528 capture photos or video with its 3-megapixel back camera or join video chats with a VGA front camera. A stock version of the Gigabyte computer comes with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of flash storage that support its custom version of Linux.

iRiver announced the launch of its newest portable digital audio player, the Volcano T7. Available in either 2GB or 4GB versions, the compact T7 features an OLED display to showcase data information. Supported audio formats include MP3, WMA, ASF and OGG, which can be uploaded to the USB key-style player simply by plugging it into a computer’s USB 2.0 port. The player also features a built-in FM tuner with a recording function as well as voice recorder thanks to a built-in microphone. Available in either white, black, pink, blue or chocolate, the T7 is thus far only offered in Korea and Europe. Equivalent prices for the T7 are expected to cost about $54 for the 2GB version and $77 for the 4GB version.

SHARP displayed its slide-n-tilt MID ‘Willcom D4′ during Computex 2008, which is powered by Intel Atom processor and Windows Vista OS.

Adopting a 5-inch touch screen, 1GB of RAM and 40GB HDD, the Willcom D4 supports 1-Seg mobile TV, wireless LAN, Bluetooth connectivity, 1.98M camera and micro SD card slot.

Measuring 192.3×84×25.9mm at 470g, it is expected to be available for between 120,000 and 130,000(JPY).