PSP 2 To Have No UMD Drive

It’s noticeable to see a spike of PSP 2 rumors and news all of a sudden, and the recent one was reported by Kotaku mentioning that the new PSP (aka PSP2) will not have the controversial UMD drive. Will UMD drive be the last legacy of small prtable electronics Sony will let go off? Most possibly! With recent flood of SSD (solid state drives) that are housed more and more in MP3 players, PMPs and netbooks, the future PSP may be one of those devices to have such a drive. Memory Stick slot could also serve as an expansion slot, but one may only guess that they may even drop that medium in favor of SSD (highly doubtful though!).
Since PSP is now integrated into PlayStation Network, game and movie downloads can be easily accessed over WiFi or PS3.
So as rumors prevail more and more, it indicates that there is a new PSP cooking in a Sony PlayStation kitchen…