Immodestly and Skype coming to Playstation Vita

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During a press conference at Gamescom in Cologne Conference game, Sony announced several new features for their new game console, Vita (watch our hands-on E3 here). Among them were support for Foursquare and Skype. References were made during a conversation on the 3 G model, $ 300, but it does not imply that a 3 G connection.

More powerful than most phones and sport big, bright touch screen and dual camera, Vita should be able to handle these services perfectly. There is no demonstration and no screenshots, however, so the user interface is still a mystery.

It was also unclear whether it will integrate with Vita in other, more system-wide social tools. Sony has a list of system-wide voice chat and friends and Twitter is already integrated to some extent, but these new services can also enter the game. Become Mayor in the game can become a new source of points for drug addicts.

In addition to the announcement it was confirmed that all Vita games will download. This is a compelling way, but it is likely that users are going to free space, considering this is a true AAA games probably clocking in at several concerts, and solid-state storage quickly enough to load assets not cheap. But an unconditional promise downloadability one smart enough to do is very "next-gen."

Vita will be hitting the market in United States, after some time in early 2012, although it may be able to import one from Japan for the holidays — if you're filthy rich.

Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chats over the Internet. Calls to other users through the Skype services are free of charge.

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Foursquare is a location based social network that includes gameplay elements. Users share their location with friends check in via the Smartphone app "or text message.

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Immodestly adds inline photos and even more Polish to their iPhone app

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Back in the day, knock on immodestly iPhone app used to be that he was not very visually appealing. This is especially true in comparison with rival Gowalla. But much has changed over the past few months. And now that Foursquare has extensive finance and larger group to deal with the painful consequences of rapid growth, they are putting a lot of attention to how things look and feel. And it pays off.

Today brings the update to the iPhone app that brings a new coat of arms of Poland. First of all, you'll see that the pictures are now displayed in the text when you view your check-in activity stream. This corresponds to the functionality that was recently added to immodestly Web site. He not only ups visual appeal, it makes service to feel more alive and personal.

This new, more visual experience permeates the entire app.config if you land a spot on the page and click through to see who is there, if any of your friends, you'll see their photos and shouts from this place inline.

Updating Foursquare also touting a common design tweaks, including the caption of the clean up. One thing that will please many users is to add more tasks to a TAP within the app previously, you had to focus on tiny comment bubbles to leave a comment. Now you can click on the check itself to do so.

One thing not yet included in this update: lists. New feature that Foursquare launched yesterday on their Web site continues to work on mobile. But it goes in the next version, they promise. In addition, all these new features should be presented in the Android and BlackBerry applications soon.

Soon to be live iPhone app when it, find it here.

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Foursquare is a location based social network that includes gameplay elements. Users share their location with friends check in via the Smartphone app "or text message.

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