Sony to launch a multimedia tablet and the long-rumored PlayStation phone in 2010?
According to a rumor from the Wall Street Journal, Sony may be taking aim at the Apple iPhone, the Apple iPad and Microsoft’s Zune Phone Windows Phone 7 Series with two upcoming multifunction, multimedia-centric devices. Sony is reportedly developing a portable multimedia device bundled with online services that will rival the iPad. This rumored portable device will be part netbook, part e-reader, part gaming machine and will connect to the new Sony Online Service which will offer, music, movies, television episodes, and games. The bulk of the games available through the Online Service will be recycled PlayStation games and will be made available to wide range of portable and mobile devices. Sony promises to have this iPad killer in the hands of the masses sometime in 2010. The second and the smaller of the two multifunction devices is a smartphone, developed in conjunction with Ericsson, that will download and play PlayStation games. Sound familiar? It should as this idea of a PlayStation phone has been bouncing for almost three years now without any concrete evidence that the project has been moving forward. Will 2010 be the year Sony delivers the PlayStation phone and finally puts an end to this seemingly endless rumor? We hope so at this repetitive reporting is getting a bit long in the tooth.
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Looks HUGE!
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huge and bad quality
Goddamn let’s see what happens. Love competition
Wack!
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That’s a lot of buttons on the front considering there’s no QWERTY
Make a device similar in size and shape to a Droid, heck even an N900, give it psp controls via either a snap on peripheral or intergrate a great dpad and buttons, add a hardware qwerty, let it run psp games, and a solid OS (maybe a pretty sense-ish android rom), make it preform welll and make calls well. Is this too much to ask?
Probably yes.
and it will be available for purchase online only for $899 unlocked; it will be a huge competitor and hit, just like the xperia was…yawn.
Brick phone with pivot screen!
start over
I dont think it will look like that. knowing sony they the most advance tech in it and charge an arm and leg for it.
I’m Getting one
Yep, so will I… The second it’s released too.
I just hope they release it in Australia straight away, instead of fart-assing around for years on end!
Oh No a Multimedia phone and a Tablet. I can hear Apple’s lawyers sharpening their axes in preparation for the all the lawsuits over patent violations.
And apple will sue them too.
Bad idea…
That picture is years old, engadget had some other ones.
As much as I would like to see this happen,the diagrams are defeating to say the least.They could have referenced LG GW990 and made steps from there to include a wide enough screen expected for gaming.The bulk of what look’s like more like a dock there needs to be no thicker than the orig PSP Go.It has to have true smartphone capabilities or it’s a no go (pun intended).
‘Bout time Sony brought out a “PlayStation phone” and/or competitor to the Apple iPhone range…
Wow a Playstation phone and considering sony’s track record i wonder how many different versions of this they will make.
Playstation Phone = FAIL
Sony+Ericsson=Sony Ericcson
Sony now alone and far too many buttons to be useful.
Sorry Sony. Give it back to Ericsson.
Alright people, before you make fools of yourselves, realize this:
This is a patent for hardware features of such a device. It is not a blueprint. The patent protects the basic hardware functions of this specific device.
ADD VERSION: THE PICTURE IS NOT WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE, ONLY HOW IT WILL GENERALLY FUNCTION.
K? Thx.
I could care less about PSPphone (unless RIM builds it), but I would be ALL OVER a tablet PSP device. But the SOB had better be able to fully function as a PS3 remote!
B E A UTIFUL!
Knowing Sony, this will be very expensive for the average consumer just like their Xperia phones. I’m betting it’ll be around 800 bucks and up. If they keep the price reasonable, it may have a chance. Gotta see the final specs and complete design before making any judgement.
All I can think of is the N-Gage…
FAIL…
I don’t think there’s much of a market for the playstation phone.
Why does Kelly Hodgkins title most of her articles in question format?