Sony Ericsson head talks PlayStation phone, mythical beasts

Considering the rumors of PSP Go! flying around with a umdless psp the fact that games are up on the psn, this could possibly work if it does happen.

Give us a choice, like iTouch and iPhone

PSP go umdless & PSPhone

The PSPhone of course costing more, but it will be worth it if its anything as superb as my current Erricson :D

That above concept looks large and annoying tbh

Woulnd want that at my ear. somthing more compact? then maybe :)

I don't get the swivel. That big movement just to reveal the ear piece?

Either a PSP2 or PSP-Phone at E3 would be nice annoucements! Or what about BOTH!?!? : 0

I don't see the point of having a PSP Go and a PSP Phone at the same time...Apple can have both a Touch and an iPhone because people listen to music pretty much all the time; so if they don't want the iPhone, they just get the iPod touch and will use it just as much and not feel like they're missing out on anything.

People don't play portable games on the go as much as they listen to music, so the real necessity of a having both a PSP Go and PSP Phone doesn't make sense, because it would feel like you're getting a hamstrung PSP if you went for the PSP Go; and similarly people are not going to buy a (likely contract) PSP Phone just to play games if there was a PSP Go.

All theoretical of course, but to me having two devices like that on the market would not make sense.

One or the other Sony. Not both.

Um, when the iPhone is made available on Verizon, I don't think anybody is going to give a shit about a pPhone.

A Playstation phone would require communication and coordination across multiple regions and departments of Sony. It's never going to happen.

well, Ericsson wants out, so Sony must first buy their their share of Sony-Ericsson, once Sony owns the phone thing, the PSP phone will come, but I think if they don't release it fast, (this year or next year) it will be hard to compete with iphone and nintendo at the same time. And hopefully nintendo won't be making a gameboy/cellphone or that would seal the deal for Sony.

A PSP with 3G sounds awesome, doesn't anyone agree?

You don't need to be at home to play online, and Playstation Store without a PS3.

Now that you think of it, it would be better to scrap the PSP GO!, for PSPhone. I suppose the only problem is the fact that carriers like to charge 1 million $ for a phone with no plan, and most kids won't be able to get it.

Im trying to think of a reason this would be compelling.......drawing a blank

Dont joke like that - you almost broke my heart!

*Holding breath*

Does the PSP really need phone capabilities? It does already have Skype, which is sufficient.

A PS phone would need so much development that it would likely be close to obsolete one or two years after it launched. So its not a money maker for Sony. even the iphone has had to have 2 versions come out to keep up to date with phone technology.

add into that back compatibility problems of a gaming platform and you will see that Sony cannot commit to any technology that it does not at least party control. that's why blu-ray & UMD are in, and why it took Sony years to make their Walkmans .mp3 compatible.

The phone market and the video game market is totally different and distant from each other. Each audience is also different. A PSPphone doesn't make sense because only a minority would prefer a device with high-tech gaming capabilities coupled to a phone functionality.

This is pretty ridiculous. It's like adding a motor to a buggy, thereby making it horseless. It'll never work, and what are you going to do with all the left over horses? You've got horseshoe repairmen out of a job and dependence on a new resource other than God's own grass the way nature intended.

It reminds me of that fool that added perfectly good peanut butter to chocolate. Kids eat chocolate, some of them have allergic reactions to peanut butter. Did anyone think of that?!

Now you've got these fools (Garmin) and others adding navigation technology to cell phones when all it does is make the hybrid worse than dedicated gps gadgets for navigation and worsens the cell phone utility by decreasing its battery life. A cell-phone is a cell-phone (duh). You add feature creep and it's less of a cellphone by definition. I don't understand what's so hard to understand about that concept.

What a totally useless and ridiculous idea.

Next we'll have cell-phones that do stupid things like check blood-sugar levels or act as some sort of atm or payment device. lol at 'progress'.

Read my post in my blog. It was written b4 this. My blog is new.http://playstationpredictions.wordpress.com/

Dear Sony,

My name is Donald and I am an achitecture intern from Brooklyn. I would like you to consider some of my ideas and if you like, please contact me for more:
-The new PSP should be a hybrid of the Kindle, ipodtouch and the Wii remote. What do I mean?
-It should connect to PS store the same way the Kindle connects to Amazon for books.
-It should have an accelerometer and touch technology. The PSP should create a Wii like experience when synced to PS3 and compete with DS/ iPod when detached.
-It should have a Touch screen. So I can use it to type or as a mouse. Not to mention the gaming options when synced to the PS3 as a controller.
Let me simplify,
If I could use my iPhone as a controller for the ps3 creating a Wii remote style experience; we would be in business. Not to mention added features like an on screen keyboard and touch technology.
Two more things,
1) Throwback games like SSF2HD and Bionic commando re armed should be the typical types of games offered on the PSP. Play at home and on the Go!
2) Can I connect to facebook, aim, twitter through Home please? There is no way to interact with non gamers while on ps3... It's good marketing if you consider this one. Create a media wall (in Home) so I can share pictures videos and websites with home users. I want to be able to see a friend surfing the web (if I can see them bowl, then I can see them surf), seeing what he or she is doing on the particular webpage and also discuss it with them.
One more) Can we design our own something in Home using a Sketch up or LBP type software?... oh! and PS3 owners should get a discount on the 250 price tag of the new psp I JUST PROPOSED.

Thanks ,
Donald
Brooklyn, NY