Access your PS3 anywhere with the Sony Aino cell phone

by Jem Alexander on May 28th 2009 4:45PM

Sadly, the Sony Aino mobile phone isn't the fabled PSPhone, but it does support one feature from the handheld device. Using the phone, you will be able to access your PS3 via Remote Play and, because the device is 3G enabled, you won't have to rely on Wi-Fi access. Once connected, you'll be able to stream movies, images and music from your hard disk drive.

Europeans will also be able to access PlayTV, allowing them to view, pause and rewind live television, as well as setting programs to record from afar. There's no indication of whether the phone will have access to the PlayStation Network store or the friends list, but that would be the icing on an already tasty cake. Having this feature on a cell phone makes perfect sense -- hopefully this is something that will become a lot more prevalent in the future. Who knows, one day we might see a Remote Play iPhone app. We'd love that.

[Via Engadget]

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Sounds neat.

I'll stick with my iPhone and MacBook tho :P

So will this be replacing the Ericsson in the next Bond film?

Noo, It'll be *REPLACING* Daniel Craig in the next film !

"Bond, you're low on charge"

Lady M: "Noooooo Bond!! You're not fluid-proof !!!!"

I can think of many more, I'll just stop here !

/mindclusterfuck

Thats pretty awesome.

Here's a video of it in use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBqvg1x6D8U

AHAAHAHAHAHAHA

Not that video :P

Thank you for that link, I was laughing my ass off damn near the whole time.

Check this out !

KZ: Ejaculation on this phone !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrSN7176XI

/mindclusterfuck

That is pretty cool.
But I keep all that stuff on my PC :P

me too but i still have access to it on my PS3 through TVersity.

can you remote play your tversity content?

You can, given a fast enough connection. Works well - probably best to turn down the quality though for best performance.

thats why remote play is so awesome, because it works with tversity, playon, and ps3 media server to server all of your media, hulu, and whatever else you want to your PSP, and now your phone.

Guys, check out PS3 Media Server...

I changed from TVersity som versions ago

This would be fun to use with the PS Eye lol

it's only available in Brazil (as far as the Americas are Concerned) and that makes me sad.....

That does suck. Barely anyone in Brasil can even afford a PS3. I'm Brasilian, so I should know.

Gonna look into this, maybe I can get someone to send me one of these if it's actually not a piece of ****.

That's one bad ass looking phone.

OSHT, replied to the wrong post, lol.

could replace my Blackberry...if it were available in Canada.

Damn! How much and where do i get it?

What a beautiful phone. Shame only 7 people will buy it -____-

What's the deal with Ericsson phones getting no love? The Xperia was a great phone, yet was completely over looked by the competition.

The problem with SE phones is that, at the time of their first reveal, they ARE amazing and actually do gather a hell lot of attention, but from the time of reveal to the release time, it is a hell of a long time...

SE needs to learn to reveal information not long before release time...technology, specially when it comes to the cellphone industry, goes rather fast

Laggy UI, Windows Mobile, and a crazy price tag are all reasons I stopped bring excited for the xPeria. It was a damn nice looking phone, and probably great for business users, but even business types have been flocking to the iPhone.

I'll be buying it. Ever since i went from SE to an HTC Fuze, i've kinda missed my SE.
This just seals the deal to go back to SE phones.

ALl of their good phones never seem to come to our shores/network providers. or your waiting forever for them to.

I wont be surprised if we cant buy this until next year.

SE can make all the sexy hardware they want, they'll keep failing if they keep using WinMo. They should go the Apple and Palm route and develop their own OS and hardware.

well im now decided on my new fone, i love remote play but i doubt we will be able to play the games on are hard drives that support it, like bionic commando re-armed

most users have crappy upload speeds (in favor of high download speeds), any indication what your minimum upload speed must be for this to work?

Between Joystiq and Engadget, why don't you have an iPhone or Apple blog and get all your smart remarks off these blogs? "Who knows, one day we might see a Remote Play iPhone app. We'd love that." Who knows, you may never see anything remotely to this on the iPhone, but maybe you will see it on the Zune touchscreen. I swear...Apple Fanboys...

Why don't you stop being a tiny penis baby and quit complaining about everything on the internet? How are you going to ever get out of your mom's basement if all you do is bitch and moan?

They do, it's called http://www.tuaw.com.

Anyway dude, the iPhone/iPod Touch is also a gaming device. This is a gaming blog. Correlation?

lol, obviously a butthurt Zune owner.

Eh...not really impressed. To me its just another device that I dont need.

Then don't buy it :/

LOL thats what I am going to do but lets be honest this is really for the Sony fanboys so it doesnt matter what anyone says.

I hope it comes to Verizon Wireless. But it probably won't...

Not a hope in hell. This particular model uses the network tech currently employed by at&t and T-Mobile (and you can import it for $$$BIG BUCKS$$$ to use on those networks).

Sony Ericsson hasn't made a phone on Verizon's network tech in six years or so.

I could never get remote play to work on my psp...does the fact that it is a psp 1000 have anything to do with it? I heard the new models are faster...so I always kinda blamed that.

i have the original psp as well i tired the remote connect and it worked. you have to activate your psp or something. i forgt i tried it once and was like meh.

also didn't they reverse engineer the remote play anyways. soo this feature could potentially be on all phones

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/20/orp-beta-released-brings-ps3-remote-play-experience-to-your-pc/

You first have to register your PSP in your PS3. Just search the web for a way to do it :)

I purposely went with a Zune because I hate Mac Fanboys. I don't hate Mac's, they're ok; It's just the ego's of Fanboys. No need to worry, I found a different blog to get my news.

Sounds like a retarded theory, you chose one peice of tech over the other because of the fanboys? Dear oh dear

*Groan* I've been thinking about getting a zune, but I don't want to be grouped with all the MS fanboys flocking joystiq today...

I wish they would just make an App for the iPhone, G1, and Pre. This feature is certainly NOT enough to make me want to switch off an iPhone.

It's a proprietary Sony Ericsson OS. This is a feature phone, but not a smartphone like the G1/Pre/iPhone/BlackBerry

Sounds neat for the small niche that not only has a wealth of media on their PS3 (don't know amy personally) AND has this phone.

Thing is, not like I'm a Windows Mobile fan, but Orb on WinMi has been able to do this exact same thing from your PC for years. Orb has since been ported to other mobile platforms too, like iPhone.

I think a better idea would be to have the ability to stream everything from your PC to every other device, including the PS3 and cellphone. Which I think you can do as well.

It's alot more robust than you assume,

you dont need all your media on the ps3. it will give you access to all your media on your computer via ps3 media player or tversity and hulu and other streaming media via play on.

Looks really cool. What OS will be on there? Cause if it's Windows Mobile, that's an absolute deal breaker. But if it has a nice interface and is actually a good phone, I might seriously consider this.

I like the fact that phone cameras start having flash now - it can actually make them useable!

awesome cameras with flash have been on SE phones for ages, thats why i became a fan of SE phones years ago when the w810 came out because it had one of the best phone cams and a flash. I just havent found a SE phone that could be considered an w810 successor since...

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