PlayStation Phone images and vids leaked (yeah, again!); 'PlayStation Pocket' app makes an appearance

"Why yes, that IS a Playstation in my pocket."

Man, I can't wait for this phone. I've been living off the grid for too long.

I'll buy it but when it gets cheaper cause knowing sony it's gonna be expensive at launch

This phone would be great for emulators.

phone. great wonderful.

wheres my psp deux?

...or even greater if it was available to customers on other carriers and not just Sony Ericsson who uses AT&T (if I'm not mistaken)...

If it ends up allowing me to play all the PSOne classics I've already bought from PSN... I'm completely sold.

I think if Sony does it right it will be AWESOME.

Thats a pretty weak GPU when you consider all the Tegra 2/Dual-Core phones coming out soon.

I think Sony would have a bigger impact with this if they had made a PSP with a phone on it (with the ability to be on any network with a contract) than a phone with PSP on it. Fans would have trusted it more.

The only question that remains: Will they kill it even faster than the PSP Go? My money is on yes.

Sony really needs to go through Leaks 101 once again. Is there a single human being in here who believes all this "leaks" are unrelated to Sony?

Those iPhone 4 cases are absolutely monkey-licious. Me want.

Jesus, it's Nokia N-Gage redux.

I think this device is mainly for Japan and possibly European countries.
It might do well in The US but many people there prefer the iphone it seems. If it is highly subsidized in the US (meaning free with a 2 or more year contract) it could do very well. I have an old psp 1000 that has been used so much the old battery had to be replaced last month. The point of that sentence is to say I don't need this device, but I can see how others would enjoy it.
I see this as a phone that will be upgraded every year with new form factors and hardware. The only similar thing will be that next years Psphone will still play psx and psp games. Nothing different from what Apple and other companies are doing now. I'm not sure how Japanese phone contracts are constructed, but with the amount of gadgets they buy every year it could be a success for Sony there. It seems every iteration of ds and psp sell very well, so a phone that is constantly upgraded and still has buttons specific for games could do well in Japan maybe elsewhere.
I guess the only question that I've not seen an answer to is will Sony and other developers make games that take advantage of the higher system specs. Something besides puzzle games and Angry Birds that take advantage of the control pad and not just the touch screen. Not that those are bad (I love Chuzzle) but higher end psp games. I might be interested if that's the case.

They are seriously going to need to sync save games soon in a cloud environment if you want to. I own 2 ps3, a psp go, and that is a pain in the rear to play psx games on from one to the other when it comes to save games. Even one ps3 to the other is a great annoyance. I hate usb sticks. Xbox is slightly worse in some ways for this with the whole profile moving. I also own 2 xboxes. Also they need to fix the 5 per an account limit. I would be at 4 if I bought the phone, or 5 if I bought my wife one also. Technically I am at 5, I need to get the broken ps3 off the account., unless if sony did that already when I sent it in.

You know, at first I was kind of meh towards the idea of the PSPhone, but if it runs Android like its been rumored to, then this could possibly mean that a phone will have access to the Android Market and the Playstation Network at the same time. Throw in the fact that you'll likely be able to run emulators on it as well, and you could be looking at a beast of a gaming/multimedia smartphone. It could be a very rich man's NGage.

Let's hope they don't gimp it when they finally announce it by saying something like "it only does PS1 games" or "it only does PS Minis." Give us full access to the PSP digital library, actually support it this time, and you could have a potentially kick ass phone that lets you play games with ACTUAL BUTTONS *shock and awe*.

Lastly, let's see what the hell is going on with that touchpad up in the front there. Fake dual analogs? Why not just go with the sliders here?

Double post, but thank God that they finally gave up on their BS proprietary Memory Stick crap. Yet another reason to avoid the PSP originally.

Yeah the PS phone looks cool, the only moral I got out of this article is that Sony is very terrible at keeping secrets.

looks fugly

Maybe it's just a coincidence, but I noticed that the PSN download links for downloading via proxy to your PC instead of PS3/PSP start with "zeus." Could this have something to do with the Playstation Phone? Although it's hard to imagine why PS3 demos would relate to a phone.

By the way, hurry up and announce this already, Sony.

Regarding the people interested in the possibility of emulators for this system:

It's basically always been my experience that emulators simply don't play nice with most systems. The weird thing is, after all these years, computers still run emulators the best -- I know cell phones are getting to the point where they can stand nearly toe-to-toe with certain computers, but I wouldn't hold my breath unless you want choppy sound and lots of slowdown.

I thought the PSP could already play PS1 games? This thing reeks of Ngage failure to me.

I really want one - but the clincher will be PSN support. If it actually supports all PSP-compatible games on PSN, then I'm sold. Class of Heroes, the Disgaea games, Valkyria Chronicles 2, Dissidia, a buttload of PSOne games AND whatever Minis are actually worth playing... Just imagining a phone that can do all of that has me ready to sign up for a contract!

But I'm getting worried that it won't be able to play more than the Minis, a few PSOne games and some very basic PSP games.

What's the point when it won't be able to run psp2 games?

hmm the pspgo was too small for my hands. this looks the same

It'll definitely go to Verizon.

Would be nice if it could at least play PSP games, but will confusingly most likely have its own game library instead, separate from all the other Playstation games. : /

Hopefully, when Sony finally releases it...

*Puts on shades*

...we won't find out they phoned it in.



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