Sony Develops Mini-PDA For Playstation
TOKYO, JAPAN, 1998 FEB 19 (Newsbytes) -- By Martyn Williams,
Newsbytes.  Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) has announced the
development of a miniature sized personal digital assistant (PDA) for
use with its Playstation video game console. Rather than help users
organize their time, this PDA will allows users to play games,
downloaded from the Playstation.
Little larger than a memory card for the Playstation, and with a 32 by
32 pixel monochrome LCD (liquid crystal display), the unit won't allow
users to play the same games as they do on the console. Games and
other software will be supplied on CD-ROM disk and transferred from
the Playstation via the player's memory card slot.  Users will then
take the memory card and plug that into the newly developed device.
SCEI says it envisages games and, thanks to a built-in clock,
time-based software including small schedulers to be available.
The device has an ARM T7T 32-bit RISC processor at its heart, two
kilobytes of SRAM, and 128 kilobytes of flash RAM. In addition, an
infrared interface will allow users to exchange data with each other.
Depending on future developments, the infrared system may also be
supported by other hardware products.  The system is still under
development and SCEI said it expects a commercial product to be
available at the end of the year. Today's announcement coincides with
the release of specifications of the system to Playstation licensees
in Japan.
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