Playstation Phone is REAL

[comicGeek]

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Playstation Phone

It's real!

The PlayStation Phone -- Engadget

[darkwing]

LOL Select/Start button? pwede na maka 99 lives sa contra lol its a fake

[comicGeek]

LOL Select/Start button? pwede na maka 99 lives sa contra lol its a fake

it's not fake bai. featured on engadget.

edit:
damn. hehe. may rasab cause the looks suck. hehehe na feature sa engadget though.

[darkwing]

well, it may be areal prototype or mock-up, but its not the Playstation Phone, if you notice walay mga PS branding etc..

[obemon]

Can someone fill me in as to what Sony's strategy is when it comes to the PlayStation Portable? Is the future just gonna be this one device now with phone capabilities or is it gonna be 2 separate devices (one dedicated portable gaming/multimedia platform - the PSP, and then a PSP phone under their Sony Ericson branding)?

If it's the latter, would it be so wrong to use the Android as the OS to power both devices? Similar to what Apple is doing with their iOS on the iPod Touch and the iPhone? If Sony goes Android, they will have a very capable/customizable multitouch OS. Not to mention the thousands of apps already available. And if certain games still requires buttons and the analogue stick(s), then just slide the screen up and bang! it reveals the old PSP style controller.

Anyway just a thought. What do you guys think?

[obemon]

Sorry. Double post.

[comicGeek]

Fuel to the fire

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/27/s...ming-platform/

A bumper crop of circumstantial evidence surrounding the Android-based PlayStation Phone is starting to come together today -- when it rains, it pours, as they say -- and one particularly interesting thread suggests that the ecosystem surrounding the device might be called "Z-System." An astute tipster notes that the term appears in the upper left of one of our shots, which maps to a domain -- z-system.com, naturally -- that's owned by Sony Ericsson. Turns out the company also holds trademarks for Z-System in the US and Benelux trademark offices (among others, presumably) that were filed (and approved) this year, and the filing category includes "software for interacting or playing with electronic or video games," not hardware, so that strongly suggests we're looking at a platform here. We suppose it's possible that this specific device will be called Z-System, but we're going to float the theory that its actually underlying gaming platform that'll bear that name -- possibly a premium game store and set of software libraries that together will earn a device the Z-System badge. As we already saw with the BlackPad / SurfBook / PlayBook fiasco, trademarks don't mean much until a device is actually announced -- but it's something to keep an eye on.

[comicGeek]

The PlayStation Phone is still real

The PlayStation Phone is still real -- Engadget

By now you've seen our photos of the PlayStation Phone, and likely you've also heard the scattered reports of debunkings and cries of "fake!" -- it wouldn't be a scoop without it. Only here's the thing: the PlayStation Phone in the photos we ran last night, and the device reported on back in August is most definitely real. We're not saying that because we want to believe or because we're gingerly trying to nab pageviews: we're saying it because we know it to be true. This is a device which has been confirmed through multiple, trusted sources. And we're not just talking good tipsters -- some of our information comes from people much more closely connected to the project. Even since last night we've received more info about the phone -- learning that its codename is "Zeus," and it was last seen running Android 2.X (not 3.0, which we suspect will be the shipping version). It should be obvious by comparison of our original mockup to the real photos we've just uncovered that the handset we described in August is the same handset now fully revealed. Prior to last night, we had never seen an actual image of the phone. It should also be obvious that the device pictured in those photos is a prototype running early software (which would explain the A / B button mention in the photo above) with hardware that was likely hand-built, or at the very least created in a very small batch.



Based on what we've heard about the secrecy of this plan, it makes sense that even Sony's own employees wouldn't be privy to information on the phone, the marketplace, and the collaboration with Google. The alleged Sony response to the device makes that somewhat clear -- reports state that an employee originally told a publication that the images were fake, only to backtrack and deliver the standard corporate line that the company "doesn't respond to rumor and speculation." It's possible that whomever was originally questioned either didn't know of the device's existence, was lying about its existence, or simply had their response taken out of context. And that brings us to our point -- while there will be plenty of speculation on whether or not what we've shown you is real, we would never run the images or the information without a healthy sense that we were bringing you fact, and not fiction. We don't like to boast, but as the guys and girls who brought you the first pictures and review of the Nexus One, the first details and images of the Dell Venue Pro (aka Lightning), the first pictures of the new MacBook Air, the first photos of the iPad, and the first photos of the iPhone 4, we feel pretty confident in our abilities to deliver the goods. Of course, this story is just beginning -- so hold on tight.

[comicGeek]

well, it may be areal prototype or mock-up, but its not the Playstation Phone, if you notice walay mga PS branding etc..

I think it will come soon enough. Engadget only runs these types of rumor if they have credible leads. So far they have been correct on almost all rumors.

[comicGeek]

Can someone fill me in as to what Sony's strategy is when it comes to the PlayStation Portable? Is the future just gonna be this one device now with phone capabilities or is it gonna be 2 separate devices (one dedicated portable gaming/multimedia platform - the PSP, and then a PSP phone under their Sony Ericson branding)?

If it's the latter, would it be so wrong to use the Android as the OS to power both devices? Similar to what Apple is doing with their iOS on the iPod Touch and the iPhone? If Sony goes Android, they will have a very capable/customizable multitouch OS. Not to mention the thousands of apps already available. And if certain games still requires buttons and the analogue stick(s), then just slide the screen up and bang! it reveals the old PSP style controller.

Anyway just a thought. What do you guys think?

If there is gonna be a Playstation Phone it wont be a real playstation but an Android device with a Playstation market for Android based games plus hardware buttons to control such games. I don't see them publishing psp level games on an Android OS.

I think playstation portable 2 will be inevitable. Just a matter of time.