Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone leaks, mobile gamers rejoice
Smartphones have been eating into the portable consoles market for a while now, but this should speed up the process quite a lot. Apparently the rumored Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone is real and we've got the photo evidence to prove it.Here's what we know so far - a side-slider with the trademark PSP controls that will be running Android 2.3 (or is that 3.0?) Gingerbread.
Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone
Inside the Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone will be a 1GHz Qualcomm CPU, 512 MB of RAM, 1GB ROM and a microSD card slot. The touchscreen size isn't confirmed just yet but it's said to be between 3.7" and 4.1" (which sounds pretty reasonable for a gaming device). Oh, and you'll be getting a multitouch pad on the lower half of the slider for a complete gaming experience.
Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone
The pricing of the device is still unknown, but that's to be expected with the device not even officially announced yet.
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engadget has published the first unofficial pics of what appears to be the much-rumored PlayStation phone, which looks like the result of mating a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 with a PSP Go.
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