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Nikkei: Sony To Build Gaming Phone
5:00PM Luke Plunkett | According to Japan’s Nikkei business daily, Sony will next month begin the process of designing a “cellphone-game gear hybrid” which it’s hoped will give Apple’s iPhone a run for its money. More »
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Sony: A PlayStation Phone “Could Happen”
9:00PM Luke Plunkett | Yup. This again. With Sony’s phone partnership with Ericsson running up record losses, company boss Hideki Komiyama has again raised the prospect of a PlayStation Phone. More »This Might Just Be The PlayStation Phone
9:00PM Luke Plunkett | Sorry. The “PlayStation Phone”. Because it’s a lot more phone than it is “PlayStation”. Letdown. Pictured above is the Sony Ericsson F305 phone, first in their new “F” series of devices, due for release later this year. The Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog – source for this info and the pics – believe the “F” stands for “fun”, because the phone not only features motion-controlled gaming, but also boasts the familiar “O” and “X” buttons, as well as a PlayStation control pad icon, suggesting that gaming is going to be made a primary feature of the line. If this is as PlayStation phone as Sony are willing to go (and it probably is), it’s a smart move – actually branding the thing a PlayStation Phone, and going all-out on the gaming side of things, may not have been the smartest thing to do to the brand. Sony Ericsson F305 is for fun and games [USEB, via Gizmodo AU] More »Sony Phones To Feature Motion-Sensitive Games
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Yay, more Sony phone talk, and this time without even mentioning the word “PlayStation”! According to Pocket-Lint, Sony Ericsson have signed a deal with GestureTek, whose motion-sensing software powers stuff like the EyeToy. The deal will have a similar version of said software running on Sony Ericsson phones around September, and via the handset’s cameras, will allow the phones to play motion-sensitive games. Two titles currently mooted to appear for the new capabilities are a Super Monkey Ball game and a Crash Bandicoot title (pictured). Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to increase the probability of a PlayStation Phone being announced later this year up a few percentage points. Sony Ericsson to launch new gaming phone range [Pocket-Lint, via Gizmodo AU] More »
Sony’s 2006 PlayStation Phone Patent
3:20PM Luke Plunkett | Yeah, we’re a little sick of the rumour merry-go-round on this one too, but it’s OK. This one’s not a rumour. It’s a patent application, and those are much more exciting! This application’s for a gaming phone, which Sony filed back in 2006. While it looks like a double-sided phone, it’s actually packing an iPhone-like full-screen touchscreen, allowing the device to emulate the interface of both a Sony Ericsson phone and a PSP. Course, this has never actually turned up, and in the iPhone’s wake probably never will, but sometimes it’s nice to just close your eyes and imagine what could have been, you know? ORIENTATION BASED MULTIPLE MODE MECHANICALLY VIBRATED TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY [USPTO, via Unwired View, via Pocketgamer] More »
N-Gage Aren’t Scared Of The PlayStation Phone
1:20AM Luke Plunkett | The last two N-Gages were a mess. And that’s being kind. The third, a software platform that will feature across a number of Nokia handsets, is more promising, but still far from a proven concept. So are Nokia worried that Sony are looking more and more likely to enter the mobile gaming market and walk all over them? No. No they are not. Nokia games boss Jaakko Kaidesoja: I’m not scared about anybody. The real question is how do they [Sony Ericsson] do it? Can they create a link between the PSP games and a phone? Can they do the multiplayer and online stuff? We’ve been doing this for two years and it hasn’t been easy. No, it hasn’t been easy! Then again, maybe you just weren’t doing it right… N-Gage boss: ‘We’re not scared of the PlayStation phone’ [Pocketgamer] [Pic] More »
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The Best PSPhone Mock-Up We’ve Seen So Far
8:00AM Michael McWhertor | Is a PlayStation phone in the works? Oh, absolutely. Or not. We’ve gone back and forth so many times with quotes from gabby Sony Computer Entertainment Europe execs that we’re totally confused at this point. But the rumor that a PSP capable of making a phone call—that isn’t via Skype—keeps popping up. Most recently, a blurb in Sony Magazine hinted that such a device was in the works, even pointing to a February release date. Good luck with that. If a PSPhone does exist, this mock-up is one of the better ones we’ve seen. The scan, courtesy of NeoGAF member metalmurphy, is clearly labeled as fiction, with the article estimating that such a product has a 35% chance of coming to market. Pretty, yes, but maybe we’re just distracted by the Millenium Falcon. A PlayStation Phone, while not a terrible idea, won’t be replacing my iPhone any time soon. Sony Ericsson PSPhone [NeoGAF] More »
Official Sony Mag Talks PSP Phone
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | I know it, you know it, we all know that, at some stage down the line, Sony will release a PlayStation Phone. We’ve already heard talk that one was originally due in February, but that was just a whisper. We’ve already heard SCE exec Jim Ryan say the idea of one is “definitely plausible”. Now this, this is from Sony’s official magazine, which I’d wager is a little more credible: A new PSP-style phone is apparently in development. There are even suggestions that it could be in shops as early as February. Discount the February thing, as that’s probably just citing the earlier rumours, but mentioning it’s “apparently” in development? I wouldn’t think the official magazine of the consumer electronics company in question would deal in “apparently”. More »
Sony Pooh-Poohs PlayStation Phone Rumous (Again)
1:54PM Luke Plunkett | We feel dizzy. Seems every month or two we get a rumour on a PlayStation Phone, we get near-confirmation, then we get denial. All build-up, no happy ending. Last time was…earlier this week, with Sony exec Jim Ryan saying the idea was “definitely plausible”. Today, we get Sony saying he was “misquoted”: Jim Ryan was misquoted in his interview and we do not have any plans at the moment for a PlayStation phone. Not a denial, then, just no plans “at the moment”. Does this merry-go-round have season tickets? We feel a bit cheated having to pay every single time we jump on. Sony Shoots Down PlayStation Phone Rumors [Next-Gen] More »
