Finally the PSP-290 or mostly known as the GPS for Playstation Portable (PSP Phat or slim) is now available in Europe locally. If you are wondering how this stuff works, well it was actually design for Japan release only. Sony released the PSP-290 GPS Receiver in Japan in March 2006. Since then, no other country has received the GPS device. Software? Japan only. The only map applications released for the PSP-290 was MAPLUS: Portable Navi and Minna no Map 2 which were released only in Japan. A couple of games also use the GPS device, Metal Gear Solid Portable OPS, Hot Shots Golf 2 and Portable Homestar. Games will also work in the US and US games (if available) as well but is aimed more towards Japanese gamers as the PSP-290 is only released in Japan. So to find this is a bit hard if you are in Europe or North America. But now you can purchase it in Europe and still no luck for North America. But I got mine in Play-Asia.com and shipped it here in Canada. And for my european buddy you can now purchase it locally with Divineo.com, just click the banner below.

The PSP-290 GPS Receiver is fairly small. It attaches to the USB port on top of the PSP and is held in place with two screws. The antenna can be placed in several positions whether it be up or closed. Using Deniska’s MapThis! app, and you can make your own maps from Google Maps or Microsoft Virtual Earth by using in7ane’s Window map download tool here.