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PlayStation Vita available for pre order on Amazon UK

Amazon has put up its pre-orders for PS Vita in both the Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/3G flavours at £229.99 and £279.99 respectively, as yet there is no release date but the US branch is estimating the 31st of December 2011 but is not yet confirmed.

For those that aren’t familiar with the specification:

Key PlayStation Vita Features

  • Multi-touch 5-inch organic light emitting display (OLED) as the front display
  • Multi-touch pad on the rear of the device
  • Dual analogue sticks
  • Two cameras (front and rear)
  • Software titles on small, dedicated flash memory-based cards
  • Three motion sensors, gyroscope, accelerometer and electronic compass
  • Wi-Fi and 3G* network connectivity
  • PlayStation Network access, including “LiveArea,” “Near” and “Activity” log features Trophy Support
  • The PlayStation Vita will be able to play PSP titles, minis, PS one classics, video and comics from the PlayStation Store

Technical Specifications

  • CPU – ARM Cortex-A9 core (4 core)
  • GPU – SGX543MP4+
  • External Dimensions – Approx. 182.0 x 18.6 x 83.5mm (width x height x depth) (tentative, excludes largest projection)
  • Touch Screen – 5-inches (16:9), 960 x 544, Approx. 16 million colours, OLED Multi touch screen (capacitive type)
  • Rear Touch Pad – Multi-touch pad (capacitive type)
  • Cameras – Front camera, Rear camera
  • Sound
  • Built-in stereo speakers
  • Built-in microphone
  • Sensors – Six-axis motion sensing system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer), three-axis electronic compass

Location

  • Built-in GPS
  • Wi-Fi location service support

Keys / Switches

  • PS button
  • Power button
  • Directional buttons (Up/Down/Right/Left)
  • Action buttons (Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square)
  • Shoulder buttons (Right/Left)
  • Right stick, Left stick
  • START button, SELECT button
  • Volume buttons (+/-)

Wireless communications

  • Mobile network connectivity (3G)*
  • IEEE 802.11b/g/n (n = 1×1) (Wi-Fi) (Infrastructure mode/Ad-hoc mode)
  • Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (A2DP/AVRCP/HSP)

For the Wi-fi only click here and for 3G version click here

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