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There have been rumors floating around that Sony may be interested in producing a PSP phone. A patent filed by Sony Ericsson lends some credibility to those rumors.
The patent depicts a phone with a screen that can swivel around to produce a look and feel similar to the PSP. The patent also shows notification boxes that allow you to pause a game to pick up a phone call.
The device seems fairly small, but from the picture there’s no real way to tell the size. One thing to note is that there is no dedicated numberpad. This would lead us to believe that the device would have a touchscreen, but after reading through the patent filing, it describes “a group of special numeric keys.” Those keys look like they would be arranged in a very awkward manner for dialing.
PSP phone details emerge [via boygenius]
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awsome…but i don’t have a psp :(
How does this – look like a PSP?
The Frame of the screen looks somewhat like it, that’s it. That’s all there is to it. The screen isn’t even wide enough to fit any PSP game in existance. And the controls don’t seem to have some sort of analouge input device and L/R buttons.
It’s just plain not gonna be a PSP compatible device and it won’t run games stores on UMD.
It could be a phone/gaming device, but like this? Sadly, yeah. Knowing Sony, they could actually pull out something like this and try to sell it. It’ll do miserably, but hey, it’s Sony we’re talking about. They seem to really have lost their touch to what people want/need/buy these days.