| Wipeout Pure has Built-in (limited) Web Browser!
Thanks to Masha at CAG:
There has been a talk about PSP browser. Looks like we will have one with Sony firmware updates. I hope we will.
http://www.fumanchuu.com/pspdev/
Forum thread
http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=1223
Another look (This link should have best "how-to" explanation)
http://www.wombatmobile.com/blojsom/blog/wombat/mobile/2005/03/26/Using_the_PSP_as_a_web_browser.html
Epobirs at CAG said this about the function:
Don't read too much into this. The Wipeout browser is a very limited founction for downloading additional content. It is hardwired to go only to the Wipeout Update site and nowhere else. The people who produced the 'hack' were able to set up a directory on a system with files named to correspond to the address Wipeout uses. They then had a local DNS server set up to point to the directory instead of the genuine internet location. It worked but was painfully slow, taking several minutes to render a single page.
This isn't something you're going to use in real life except for getting Wipeout content.
This doesn't mean Sony is going to put a browser in a future firmware update. For starters, a decent browser would consume far more space than is available in the PSP's flash ROM. Second, there is no business argument for providing such. Third, even on UMD and using Memory Stick for local caching would at best be a very clunky browser. Try the best web browsing available on PDAs with far more OS support for creating such apps and compare it to the functionality of a $500 laptop PC. The PDA comes up short in every respect except greater portability and battery life. The PSP, with even fewer native resources (no font rendering or library, for instance), would come much farther down in usability.
A fun stunt but nothing like a practical application. | 
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