The rumours that the PS Vita's RAM has been halved have been squashed by Sony's latest press conference.

Sony has revealed the technical details of their new handheld settling the doubts over how much RAM the machine would have. The will be equipped with 512MB of RAM as well as 128MB of VRAM.

The machine will also feature pretty comprehensive social networking support including Foursquare, Facebook, as well as support for Skype.

The PlayStation Vita will be out in before the end of the year with the North American and European release coming in the first calendar quarter of 2012.

Thanks 1UP.

By Ewan Aiton