Pretty sure it’s been hashed and re-hashed that, as far as hand-held gaming is concerned, the PSP manages to do what it’s supposed to do. (It ought to be mentioned that, as I have had mine since launch, too, it didn’t even do that originally.)

My wife’s died on her a lo-o-ong time ago after she put the Sims 2 UMD in it. Can’t explain it, but the whole thing just died on her. Since we weren’t together at the time, and I wasn’t finding much use for it, I mailed her mine.

Fast forward 2 years or so, I just found it at the bottom of a box today while doing some unpacking from a recent move and thought I’d see if any of the firmware updates offered in the last 2 years made any improvement.

It was nice — almost redeeming — to see that Sony had included a browser, WMA support, Flash support, etc., until I tried to use it at any length.

It’s either going back in the bottom of the box or finally on Ebay (though I doubt I’ll get much of a turnaround on it). Do the folks at Sony even bother reading the blogs to get public reflections of their products? To say it again, the PSP isn’t a bad device; it was just released by Sony.

I hope Microsoft considers putting something like this out someday soon, learning a lesson from Sony’s Frankstein.

Sure it cant be a laptob but my laptop is 26cm(long)
35cm wide, the screen is 25cm high the body is 2.5 cm thick, my psp is 7cm long 17cm wideand the body is 1.5 cm thick…

you can put a lot more in a laptop can’t you… the psp is gr8 for its size!

Web pages are designed for A PC which normally has about 1gig of available ram (both chip and virtual memory).

So there is the math

Web page, designed for Big PC with 1gig of ram. Your PSP has 8mb RAM.

Changing the Cache to off or 2mb will have no effect. Cache is not used to display pages, its used to store it for viewing later.

Having a 512mb memory stick doesnt give your PSP 512mb of RAM, it gives it 512mb of storage. Think of it as your PSP’s hard disk.

Note:Sony can’t fix the problem unless they build a new psp with a bigger amount of ram memory.

I actually got so frustrated with the PSP that I eventually sold mine.

As for me, I am in the process of selling my PSP, as other than web browsing I just have no need for it, and I really do not even need it for that. I have the Xbox for games, and the cell-phone for on the go web browsing.

Same weirdity as you as to running out of memory while web-browsing (and by the way, my principle usage of the PSP also - gaming, videos, pics and music do get old…..or I’m just getting older and want to browse new things and see no point in beating GTA or whatever).

As to the problem. One quick method of dumping the memory problem is to just log off, go to another section of the PSP (pics, music…..) and open any file, close file and relog on. Most often this clears the memory cache internal to the PSP. The problem isn’t on the memstick, its in the internal RAM memory. Another quick fix is to switch to a different portal. Especially if you are relying on solely the built in web browse Sony internet scheme. Using Vista for PSP or Sparks Portal seems to work far better…..for a while.

Oddly, a freshly charged battery seems to have a positive effect as well.

Any other ideas folks? I’d too be glad to hear them.

The internet flash and jpg files that are downloaded from the net so u can see on ur psp is inside ur actual psp.
Possibly if u expand that memory inside ur psp, ur chances of a error are smaller.

But the internet browers is definetly not the psp primary feature like u said, the psp was targeted for gamers.
Also the browser was just made so ppl would upgrade therefore they cant downgrade as new secruity patches come in, in each version.

PS: if you dont noe what dowgrading ur psp does, it lets u play homebrew apps and games.