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