PlayStation + Sony Ericsson = PlayStation Phone
Too good to be true? Well it’s not yet a real gadget but I just read from Game News that an executive from Sony Computer Entertainment has strongly hinted that SCE will team with Sony Ericsson to create a PlayStation Phone.
Speaking to the Economic Times, Sony Computer Entertainment co-chief operating officer Jim Ryan hinted that a PlayStation Phone could be on the way.
“The PlayStation is a proven success and so is Sony Ericsson. Convergence with the two arms working together is definitely plausible,” he said. “What has been done is finding a match between a camera and a mobile phone, and that has been done wherein the mobile phone features are not reasonably inhibited and the camera is also a reasonably competitive product. It is hugely intellectually seductive to have a console-oriented phone.”
Unlike camera phones, however, where the camera is sort of an add-on onto the phone – something that doesn’t provide great picture quality – the idea for a PlayStation Phone may be more rooted in the console side than in the phone. According to the report, the phone would be “superimposed on the console.” Could this be the new PSP in a few years?
Would this be the real ‘iPhone killer’ or something totally new and awesome in its own right? Or has SCE and Sony Ericsson has finally learned enough from the tragedy of Nokia’s N-gage that they feel and think they could prove that this concept can be a real success story.
They succeeded in combining the Walkman and Cyber-shot brands with phones so it’s much closer to reality than if other companies would take a shot at it.
What would it looke like? Would you get one?
And I wonder what’s next, camera phones + photo printers? (WTF?!) 
All in all, it would be something definitely to watch out for.
Update:
CVG has been told that Sony is not working on a PlayStation Phone. (bummer!) And again I quote:
“Jim Ryan was in fact misquoted by the Economic Times of India about this issue,” a Sony UK spokesperson told us moments ago, adding, “We do have talks with other arms of the Sony family about various topics but I can confirm we are not currently working together on the creation of a PlayStation Phone.”
The power of the rumors being spread over the internet.
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@ Arbet: I think that’s what they’d do. I read in the article that they’re going to super-impose the phone on the PSP.
@Ade: It will definitely compete with the iPhone. I’m just curious what will happen when it really comes out.
@ leo: Why would SE team-up with Canon? Aren’t they rivals in the DSLR business?
@ chuck norris dude: Right on! Though we’ve yet to see a phone + polaroid camera.
Why the hell not? People are ready for anything, more then ever before. Trying to hit the spot is much easier when you have a marke that’s hungry for everything that’s new.
how about PS + SE + Canon?! now that’s what I called murder!
PSP Phone eh? I guess they want to compete with the iPhone (obviously). But I’ll get that one over the overhyped iPhone.
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It would make more sense if they put in the phone functions in a PSP and make it a touchscreen one.
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