Well, the new PSP firmware is out.  Actually, the current build is 3.01, but let’s not get crazy yet.  It looks like most of the work on this is devoted to helping your PSP get carnal with your newly stolen/overpaid/broken PS3, but if you’re not doing the whole homebrew thing, it’s a pretty compelling upgrade.  Along with some new media features and options, it seems to have made web browsing a little smoother as well.  Complete details here.

First, if you’re a dork for music visualizations, that’s a new feature.  Also added is a feature to stop your UMDs from auto-loading, which is a nice option.  Support for downloaded games is now there, but again, you’ll need a PS3 to get that going.  For now, none of the 11 people who have PS3s are friends of mine, so I’ll have to wait to report on how that works.  The list of titles to date isn’t terribly compelling yet, and it’s not clear if it’s even really working.  We’ll have to wait until the dust settles to find out, I think.