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Nokia cheat Sony PS3 with N900

With a little help from a little fella called ‘ Wireless Visual interface”, Nokia is trying to cheat Sony to make its N900 able to control Sony PS3. It may not display the output from your PS3, but it does replace the controller and requires no modding skills. Instead you just need a copy of the BlueMaemo Bluetooth emulator. With the emulator you can trick the PS3 into thinking an N900 is a controller and then use the touchscreen to handle input.

BlueMaemo was developed by Valerio Domingos who says that at the moment it is only good enough for menu navigation and not game control. But this is an emulator being developed so no doubt a future version may allow for complete PS3 control. the emulator it is free and instructions are available on how to set your N900 up for it. The emulator is available in the Extras-Devel repository.

Eventhough it is a little bit lousy, but with further development for sure it turn into a viable controller.

Tags: bluemaemo, Maemo, nokia N900, sony ps3