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Sony's going to announce a new PlayStation Vita at next month's PlayStation Meeting – or so we read on the Internet. We've been inundated with messages about Trinity today, a new handheld that the Japanese giant's apparently about to announce. So we trawled through the sources, and came away less convinced than a doping panel after a Russian athlete is deemed clean. Too soon?

The story begins – and, honestly, ends – with a report on Japanese website Hokanko-Alt. The blog picked up on some FCC filings for two wireless chips that Sony's working on – one of which has a model name similar to the PS4 line of hardware, while the other's analogous to the Vita line. From that, one eager NeoGAF poster assumed that a new handheld is on the way.

Is it possible? Well, stranger things have happened – but this isn't proof by any stretch. More likely is that this chip will go in the PS4K, or Neo, as the current model's sub-par wireless receptor has been a source of criticism since launch. Equally, it's worth remembering that Sony is an electronics manufacturer that's coming up with new hardware components all of the time – just because it's registered this one, doesn't mean that it will ever get used.

So, to summarise: the platform holder's created a couple of new wireless chips that may or may not be used in forthcoming products. We know that an upgraded PS4 is on the way, so it stands to reason that they could be used in there. As for the rumours regarding a new Vita? We honestly have no idea how they started, but you can pretty much bank on them being inaccurate until there's a lot, lot more smoke.

[source blog.hokanko-alt.com, via neogaf.com]