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Sony’s HD-capable console will soon  include a HD cable.
A new PlayStation 3 bundle spotted on Amazon is set to go on sale this month starting June 12 that will include a copy of LittleBigPlanet (Game of the Year Edition) and a HDMI cable for $349.99.
This is the first time since the console was released in 2006 that a HDMI cable is packed in. Sony had previously only included a standard composite video cable.
It’s unclear at the moment if a HDMI cable will become standard across all PlayStation 3 bundles, or if this is a one-time offer. At this time, Sony has not responded when asked for comment.

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Just a little smidgen of news for you today. We’re getting reports that the PlayStation 3’s firmware 3.15 will be released very soon.

Firmware 3.10 brought limited Facebook integration and a fix for the ugly friends list. The unconfirmed firmware 3.15 will bring…well we don’t know.

[UPDATE] – All we know is that there should be fixes for controller pairing, the ability to transfer data between two PS3’s linked with an Ethernet cable (converting saves should be easier now), and PSP minis will now be…playable on PS3s.

The firmware, rumoured on Neogaf, is said to be posted in only two days time on December 10th.

Could this be the PS3 firmware update we’ve been waiting for? We doubt that it’s time for cross-game voice chat, since Sony would most likely have given the update a more significant collection of digits.

Our friends at TheSixthAxis have also brought us news that Sony will update the PlayStation Store on the 22nd December this Christmas and then over two weeks later on January 7th.

[UPDATE 2] – This firmware update has now been confirmed by Sony Europe. Find details on its key features on Playstation University.

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Some more news on the Sony Ericsson Xperia 2 front has leaked Blueprints of the handsets. Although we’ve already seen live images of the handset floating around, the apparent blueprints do seem to make it a little more of a reality not to mention they give us a little clear idea of the design schematics of the handset itself. What the Blueprints don’t mention are the specs so other than the previous information there’s no more conformation on the same from these pics.

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Another rumor making the rounds is what seems to be another new Sony Ericsson Xperia-like handset that will apparently be ready to run on an Android OS. Once again we see leaked images arise. The images seem to portray a rather large touchscreen device with an Xperia branding on the rear. The handset is being called the Sony Ericsson Xperia Rachel.

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The images also depict a 3.5mm earphone socket and an 8MP camera. Reports also state that the handset would also feature -

• Wi-Fi, GPS and 3G with HSDPA
• A 4-inch TFT touchscreen with an 800 x 480 pixel resolution
• Bluetooth of course and mini USB connectivity

The same reports also mention that the handset will be based on the Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon platform. This means we could expect better graphics and connectivity options.
The handset has not yet been confirmed officially but it seems it’s scheduled to be announced sometime later this year.

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ZKG writes "Only hours after announcing that a new update would be coming, the update is available for download. I just downloaded it a few minutes ago and it is installing now. We don’t even know what was in it, but its out. It appears that the thing that they said would be in it that PS3 users were asking for is new avatars. More details to come."

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As part of Sony’s announcement today that it will be cutting the PS2’s RRP by $30, SCEA CEO Jack Tretton took a moment to make parallels between old and new.
“Just as PlayStation 2 is delivering on a 10-year lifecycle and helped expand and solidify the DVD format for home entertainment along the way,” he said, “we believe Playstation 3 offers the same promise by helping secure the Blu-ray format.”
Tretton went on to say that the PS3 offers “unprecedented value” as the total home entertainment solution for the next decade, clarifying perhaps that the business has no immediate plans to reduce the price of the PS3.
The latest wave of PS3 price drop speculation passed by only just days ago, with an anonymous source incorrectly stating that an announcement will have occurred by now. Just weeks ago Screen Digest Games Analyst Ed Barton claimed that Sony was “under pressure” from various publishers to drop the retail price of its latest home console.
Sony states that the PlayStation 2 was the first home console to integrate DVD technology, and claims that the “rapid growth” of the PS2 install base “helped establish DVD as the standard optical disc media format worldwide.”

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