After being promised by August 12th and then the week of August 15th, Sony has finally made good on its promise to release version 2.0 of the Playstation Portable Firmware. The biggest addition to the update is a web browser application which allows PSP users to surf the web at a wireless hotspot. Entering into fields is done text message style. The browser does not yet support Macromedia Flash enabled sites. Other additions include support for TIFF, PNG, GIF, and Bitmap image formats, 4:3 screen modes, WAV and AAC audio playback, and MP4 video support.
Users of unlicensed programs should take note that this update may possibly disable such applications.