PSP Phone from Sony Ericsson

Discussion in 'Science, Technology & Car Chat' started by Maverick, Jun 3, 2007.

  1. Maverick

    Maverick Lord Vader

    PSP Phone from Sony Ericsson

    Nowadays everything seems to be converging into a mobile phone. It already can be a perfectly good digital camera, a mobile TV station a music player or GPS receiver. One of the things missing here was a mobile gaming platform. But it’s coming too.
    And who’s better positioned to create a perfect mobile gaming platform then Sony? It already has one - Sony PSP. It also makes some great mobile phones via joint venture with Swedish Ericsson.
    Their recent patent filing shows how Sony Ericsson will go about integrating these two gadgets:

    The main question Sony Ericsson asked when designing PSP phone was - what is the main problem with using your phone for mobile games?
    And the answer was - gaming controls.The numeric keypad is just not good enough to control the action in games. But who says all the keys on the numeric keypad have to be identical?
    Sony has already designed very good game controls on PSP. So now they just made a few keys on numeric keypad into a game controls and the problem was solved.
    The other problem was that most of the good games are played holding PSP console with both hands and using two thumbs to control game characters. And the phone is operated usually with a single hand and thumb.
    Rotating screen came to the rescue here. When the device is in a phone mode, all you have is a simple mobile phone with numeric keypad , menu and function keys. Turn the screen around 180 degrees, your menu/functional keys are transformed into game controls and you have a perfectly good portable gaming device.
    Oh and why not use the screen turned 90 degrees to make this device into a mobile TV station as well?
    The beauty of it all is that Sony will not have to worry about the games for the PSP phone. Just make it compatible with the standard PSP games and Nokia will have a really tough time catching up with it’s next gen N-Gage platform.
     
  2. 8570

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    menu and function keys. Turn the screen around 180 degrees, your menu/functional keys are transformed into game controls and you have a perfectly good portable gaming device.
    Oh and why not use the screen turned 90 degrees to make this device into a mobile TV station as well?
    The beauty of it all is that Sony will not have to worry about the games for the PSP phone. Just make it compatible with the standard PSP games and Nokia will have a
     
  3. Maverick

    Maverick Lord Vader

    There is a pic with the screen turned, but somehow I can post the pic
     
  4. Knoctur_nal

    Knoctur_nal |Force 10 from Navarone|

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    psp phone...
    iphone...
    zunephone..
    pft...
     
  5. Maverick

    Maverick Lord Vader

    Don't ya see it, first it was the MP3 hype, now it is the phone hype :D
     
  6. Knoctur_nal

    Knoctur_nal |Force 10 from Navarone|

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    i say we take it back to the days of the old skool cells
    [​IMG]
     
  7. Maverick

    Maverick Lord Vader

    Ya like the brick?
    Well, at least you have a "stealth" weapon in your hands -evil
    Nobody expect ya to hit somebody
     
  8. ksc4life

    ksc4life Well-Known Member

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    cool if he come out on the market i will buy it!!!
     
  9. dim8sum

    dim8sum ♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪....

    forget old skool cells

    old skool hard line phones -lol

    [​IMG]
     
  10. nyckeion

    nyckeion ....Boo....

    that thing is diesal that old mobile phone
     
  11. nunubutt

    nunubutt Well-Known Member

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    if someone had an old school brick phone i'd so use it. I'd be the coolest guy on campus. I dont need these iphones whatever. I'd so use brick phone.