A PSP-style gaming cellphone from Sony is one of those perennial rumors you generally see rolled-out in naff “the year ahead” prediction features, but this time around it’s Sony Magazine itself that’s dropping hints about the manufacturer’s mobile plans. According to the article, the “PSP-Style Phone” could be in shops as early as February.
While admitting that the idea might have merit, Sony has continuously denied that a PSP-based gaming cellphone is in development; in fact, Sony Ericsson VP Merran Wrigley told Brighthand’s Ed Hardy that the company doesn’t believe that “given the current state of mobile technology it would be able to create a phone worthy of the PlayStation brand”.
As SEfanatics point out, we’re already halfway through February, so if Sony have anything up their sleeves they’d better whip it out soon.
[via Digg]
UPDATE 2/17/2008: New picture of the Sony Ericsson PSP-phone surfaced.
of course, with the nintendo ds around its near impossible to create a successful competing portable gaming system.
kk…so
Looks great, Sony has everything the perfect PSP and PS3 VAIO Blu-Ray Sony rulez the electronic world with iron fist.
great idea cant wait for it to come out just would like to know what service provider its going to be on hopefully not nextel/sprint or verizon. i think they should do at&t personally
cant wait!
i dunno, sounds good, but wut about UMD port. it wont be made until sony make a better psp which does not use UMDs, as UMDs are not popular.
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“sexythang says:
February 16th, 2008 at 2:22 am
of course, with the nintendo ds around its near impossible to create a successful competing portable gaming system”
The nintendo ds is aweful compared to the sony psp, the psp is the best portable game system every made and I’m buying this phone when it comes out and I hope they make the graphics comparable to psp or better if it’s posible to do so.
Nintendo has gone down hill over the years, they used to have really fun games when they first came out, but they lost sight of that over the years. if they started remaking some of those old fun games like, kid niki, double dragon, russian attack, paper boy and so on I would be totally into it, but in my opinion the playstation 3 and psp are the best on the market, xbox is just a complete joke and their games totally suck plus you can get almost every game they have for the xbox on every other system.
when is this thang comin out? and how much is dis ting?
i tink it iz very gud fone end it is gud psp for my end for my frends. i du not tink i write thys ynglys very gud/ by evryvone
Psp phone awwww! im getting that for christmas
I hope it won’t be th@ expensive (the ericsson phone)
I CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS PHONE TO COME OUT!!! IT HAS THE STYLISH LOOKS AND ITS A GAMING SYSTEM ALL IT NEEDS IS AIM AND YAHOO I.M. HOPEFULLY T-MOBILE OR AT&T WILL BE SERVICE PROVIDERS BECAUSE EVERYBODY ELSE SUCKS.
guys i know they will come out with the hd based psp soon. and i’ll bet my poor life on it. lol =)
le monde va s en souvenir de ce bijou is going to be the best