If anyone’s capable of making a gaming phone (worth buying), I’d put my money on Sony Ericsson. Their recent patent shows the blueprints for what looks like a PSP phone. What sets this phone apart from other attempts is that it packs game-friendly buttons (no more having to use your phone’s tiny number pad) and a rotating screen (so games can be played in landscape mode as opposed to vertically). Make it compatible with all of today’s PSP games and Sony Ericsson might give the Nintendo DS some competition. What do you guys think?
Patent [via Unwired View]
Penguinister
June 2, 2007 at 8:27 AM
This seems like a classic case of over engineering, just flip the phone sideways, less engineering and more reliability..
Report PermalinkJared
June 2, 2007 at 9:00 AM
Sony are turning the world into a PS wonderland. Sony have as of late made some very nice phones, and i certainly love my SE phone.
By creating an even more portable ‘gaming’ unit are they just going to compete with themselves? Sure the DS is there but Nintendo fanboys are a different breed to Sony fanboys.
However by including wireless connectivity to a PSP and REMOTE access to a PS3 (using 3G?) that would be very very cool. Not sure why or what for but it would be cool.
Report PermalinkMcbLt
June 2, 2007 at 9:40 AM
Hmm still seems a long way off before people really embrace “super tech” devices. Didn’t they learn this from the PS3?
Sometimes it’s good to just keep things simple.
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