PSP'S NEW AVATAR

And talking of games, Sony has announced plans to start selling a new hand held gaming device by the end of the year. Sony's new device--with NGP, or Next Generation Portable, as a working title--comes with a touch pad on both the front and rear and a 5-inch organic LED screen, motion sensors, front-and-back cameras and 3G network access. Sony also plans to make some PlayStaion games available or certified portable devices, including smartphones including Google's Android operating system, by the year end. However, Sony continues to play games about its intentions of turning the PSP into a mobile phone, rumours of which have been doing the rounds for quite some time now. Will it? It refuses to say.