Firmware 3.0 has been officially released for the Sony Playstation 3. When you load it you will notice that there are very interesting changes apart from it being very smooth. There is a new logo at the startup which is looks very nice and things are pretty much faster not that they were slow before. There are new animated themes and will be more interesting to know how many more of the Dynamic themes are there. When the system is started, it will display the “What’s New” by default instead of the “Games” menu. There is also a status indicator that shows the online status of the user, the number of friends online and also an icon showing the number of unread messages. The swirling activity indicator is replaced by an analog clock. In the game changes area, a new feature has been added which allows game developers to display Trophies in different ways. There is a BBC iPlayer and ABC iView application that has been added for UK/ROI and Australian customers respectively. Pretty cool I would say!
[Sonyinsider]