Go!Messenger was a free Instant Messenger program for the PlayStation Portable

PlayStation Portable

The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...

. It was jointly developed by SCEE

SCEE

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 and BT. It was introduced to the system with the 3.90 firmware update and the Go!Messenger icon was added under Network. PSP users could communicate with PC users through Go!Messenger if the PC was running BT Softphone 2.

The software was announced on August 22, 2007 by Sony Computer Entertainment

Sony Computer Entertainment

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 Europe at the 2007 Leipzig Games Convention

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, and was released on February 29, 2008. It allowed the Go!Cam

Go!Cam

The PSP Camera is a digital camera peripheral by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable handheld video game system. In Japan, the PSP-300 was released as the Chotto Shot on November 2, 2006. In Singapore, the PSP Camera released in the same year. For PAL territories, it is named...

 to be used for video conferencing and voice chat

Voice chat

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.

When the service was functional, Go!Messenger allowed users to:

• Send Instant Messages
  Instant messaging
  Instant Messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet...
  
   to each other
• Video
  Video
  Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
  
   Chat
  Online chat
  Online chat may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet, that offers an instantaneous transmission of text-based messages from sender to receiver, hence the delay for visual access to the sent message shall not hamper the flow of communications in any of the directions...
  
   with the Go!Cam
  Go!Cam
  The PSP Camera is a digital camera peripheral by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable handheld video game system. In Japan, the PSP-300 was released as the Chotto Shot on November 2, 2006. In Singapore, the PSP Camera released in the same year. For PAL territories, it is named...
  
  
• Send Video and Voice Messages to other PSP users

End of Go!Messenger

Because use of the service did not meet Sony and BT's expectations, the service was discontinued on 31 March, 2009. Subsequently the 5.50 firmware

PlayStation Portable system software

PlayStation Portable System Software is the official, updatable firmware for the PlayStation Portable. Updates add new functionality as well as security patches to prevent homebrew applications and plugins being run on the system. Updates can be obtained in four ways:*Direct download to the PSP...

update removes the Go!Messenger icon from the Network group.