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Sony’s PlayStation 3 has cleared another pre-launch hurdle with the awarding of approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Because the games console uses Wi-Fi and Bluetooth it requires approval from the regulatory authority before it goes on sale in the U.S. It received Wi-Fi certification in September and the most recent filing covers the Bluetooth wireless. It’s due to launch in North America on November 19, just over a week after the Japan launch on November 11.
Documents made public by the FCC don’t reveal much. The regulator allows companies to request certain information is temporarily held back to stop the leaking of information ahead of a product launch, so the user manual, for example, hasn’t been made public yet. However they do offer a small scrap of new info.
Mockups of the label that will be affixed to the PS3 show two variants will hit the U.S. One is made in Japan by Sony EMCS and the other in China by Maintek Computer, which is an affiliate of Taiwan’s Asustek Computer.
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