It's hard to believe that what we're looking at is real -- but we assure
you, the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you've long
been waiting for. As we reported back in August, the device you see is headed into the market soon, likely boasting Android 3.0 (aka Gingerbread),
along with a custom Sony Marketplace which will allow you to purchase
and download games designed for the new platform. The device snapped up
top (and in our gallery below) is sporting a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 (a
chip similar to the one found in the G2,
but 200MHz faster), 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and the screen is in the
range of 3.7 to 4.1 inches. Looking almost identical to the mockup we
hit you with this summer, the handset does indeed have a long touchpad
in the center which is apparently multitouch, and you can see in the
photos that it's still bearing those familiar PlayStation shoulder
buttons. For Sony buffs, you'll be interested to know that there's no
Memory Stick slot here, but there is support for microSD cards.
The particular model in these shots is still in prototyping mode. As
such, the unit doesn't have a custom skin (not even SE's Timescape
design seen on the Xperia devices), and is said to be rather buggy.
We're digging into more facts as we speak, but it's likely that much of what we reported earlier
is still accurate, and though the device could still be headed for a
2010 release, 2011 is looking much more realistic. Still, there's a lot
of time between now and the holidays... so keep your fingers crossed!
Totally unnecessary because, Android games are very good and we don't need those "PSPhones". I can play PS1 games on my Milestone 1 very well. It is hard to believe that this phone get popular. I am worried about ROMS for this phone.
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