PS Vita Firmware Update Brings Maps, Mac Support and More - allsupwhady1948

The PlayStation Vita hasn't even out been released in North-central America yet and Sony is already sweetening the pot with a spick-and-span firmware update that adds new features, including video recording and a new Maps app, to the device. The update, announced Monday, will go live for Asian nation PS Vita owners on Feb 8th. Presumably the new features will follow purchasable connected North American Vita units at launch.

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Additionally to adding video transcription potentiality to the PlayStation Vita's tv camera app (which was previously limited to unruffled photos), the virgin 1.6 firmware update will bring a new Maps app to the console. Users will be able to memory access the recently app from their home screen and should get access to all the habitual goodies we've pertain ask from our position-aware devices, including guided navigation for walking or driving as symptomless Eastern Samoa access to outer photography.

PlayStation Vita Firmware Update — Sony's PlayStation Vita today includes a new-sprung Maps app.

Sony has too released a Mac Atomic number 76 variant of their creatively named Content Direction Subordinate for PlayStation. Vita owners need to use the Content Direction Assistant for PlayStation (operating theater "CMAP" as I'm calling information technology, mostly fair-and-square to sound cool; Feel unloose to use that extraordinary, Sony) to sync dormy data between their computer and their PlayStation Vita. Until now only Windows users could access the CMAP, and Malus pumila loyalists were left scrambling to find some way to sync their computer's photos and euphony with a half-size handheld device.

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There's nobelium word yet along if the update will be immediately available to US users at launch. If you wishing to try all this out for yourself (and don't want to spring for an incredibly expensive imported console from Nihon) you ass pick up a PlayStation Vita when IT launches in North US and Europe on Febuary 22nd. Personally, I'll be contributing to the lazy death of mobile play by rocking bent on the new Sleigh Bells album (which drops the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. earlier) on my smartphone.

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