W00t!! My PSP arrived this morning

My PSP arrived this morning. It said it would arrive by Friday...so I was quite surprised when it arrived so soon. I mean I only ordered it on Monday. Anywayz...my thoughts. It exudes quality as do most Sony products. Even taking the memory card out of the small pouch makes you think that they have spent extra money on a throw away pouch. The shiny surface gets smudged very easily but I guess that comes with the territory. What I would have really liked would have been a really really dull looking black titanium style black. You know like the brushed metal approach of the previous iTunes...but in black. That would have looked much cooler than shiny smudgy black. Oh well! I was going to go for the white one...but then I decided against it since I think the black version looks better.

If any of you has a PSP...and have used software on it (not homebrew)..like the PSP web browser let me know what it supports...Can I for example download by RSS a list of news stories and emails...as well as podcasts or videos in the morning before I commute. Is it easy to do...or do I have to manually copy and paste files into strange folders to put my own content on it? Does the music playing feature allow for custom playlists? Can I sync a playlist from my computer to the PSP...so any changes made on my computer are automatically changed onto my PSP?

As I dont have any games at the moment (GTA and Pro Evo 5 are in the post - well Pro Evo 5 will eb in the post from tomorrow) I can't test the game playing aspect for the time being. The firmware on the PSP says 1.51 so I'm not sure if that means I can play homebrew games on it but I dont wanna touch any of that till I get used to the console. I will be getting a 1gb card soon for it so that I can transfer some music and vids onto it to consume on the way to uni. That shall mean I need to learn how to use PSP Video 9 and possibly the PSP Media Manager.

I will post more info once I start playing a few games on it. The only design flaw which came in front of me today was entering text on the PSP...they've got this stupid txt msg style keyboard which means u have to click a few time to get a char to come up. It suck in all respects of HCI that I wont even bother talking about it.

Some interesting titles coming out...I think GTA and Pro Evolution Soccer 5 will do me for now...well for at least the next few months. The multi-player aspect of these two games is for me the most exciting thing. Most of the people online dont seem to have any friends or something...cos I haven't read even one review which goes into detail into the multi-player aspect of these games. They talk about it from a very theoretical point of view..but then again the chance of getting two+ people in the same room for a long period of time with the same game is prob quite limited.

Oh well...I'll have to write the multi-player review when I get my pro evo game.