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Access NetFront Browser Brings Internet Browsing to PlayStation Portable

Posted on 8-Sep-2005 14:41 | Filed under: News


Sony Computer Entertainment Inc is adopting the NetFront mobile Internet browser has been adopted as a new software provided with the PlayStation Portable (PSP) system software version 2.00.

The system update became available on 27 July in Japan and on 24 August in North America. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe launched PSP in Europe and New Zealand on 1st September, with the new system software version 2.00.

With the NetFront browser users can take advantage of the device's built-in Wi-Fi capability to wirelessly access the Internet from Wi-Fi hotspots.

The Access NetFront browser is one of the most advanced and popular embedded browsers. NetFront features technologies like Rapid-Render, an incremental rendering technology that accelerates the presentation of Web pages, and Smart-Fit Rendering, a rendering technology that intelligently renders Web pages to fit the screen width of mobile devices like the PSP, smartphones and PDAs, eliminating the need fro horizontal scrolling.