PlayStation Phone Edges Closer to Reality
A PlayStation Phone from Sony Ericcson is getting ever closer to hitting the market, according to a new report.
Initial sightings of late-production prototypes of such a cross between Sony's PSP Go and an Android smartphone emerged back in August on Engadget.
Now the tech site reports that although the device does not appear far enough along to hit shelves this fall, the PlayStation Phone could still emerge before 2011 and maybe in time for the holidays.
Specs-wise, the phone has a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 chip, 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and a screen thought to be between 3.7 and 4.1 inches in size. The operating system is slated to be Android 3.0, also known as Gingerbread , and will be Sony Ericcson's first phone to use this increasingly popular smartphone platform devised by Google.
Mockups of the phone depict it as a landscape slider with game controls in place of a full QWERTY keyboard.
Gamers on the go will have access to a custom Sony Marketplace, Engadget said, likely as part of the overall Android Marketplace, which is that platform's version of the App Store for Apple products.
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