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There’s been a lot of commotion on gaming blogs lately, concerning a possible launch of a new DS with bigger and wider screens. There was even an ad to support these claims, but I’m not to one to buy the Nintendo DS 2 rumour so easily.
Of course Nintendo called this portable console a rumour and speculation, so it seems we’ve got a Photoshop work on our hands and a pretty good one, except for the fact that the screens are not aligned.
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There have been tons of pics and rumours concerning the PSP Phone, but few specs were seen so far, at least on the web. Seems that there’s a scanned piece of white paper going around right now, containing the full specs list of the PSP mobile phone. The first surprise? It’s a SE branded device and not Sony’s child. Get the full list of features below!
Full PSP Experience:
Rotate the screen to turn the phone into a PSP console
Display specs: 16:9 wide screen TFT LCD, 4.3 inch, 480 x 272 pixel, 16.77 million colours
Weight: 250 grams
Advanced phone features:
2 megapixel camera
Web browser
Podcasting
New media browser
Flight mode
Bluetooth 2.0
Streaming audio/video
Video call
WAP 2.0 XHTML
Polyphonic ringtones
Speakerphone
Vibrating alert
Picture messaging (MMS)
Predictive text input
Sound Recorder
Text messaging (SMS)
Navigation Key
Picture wallpaper
Java
Utilities: Alarm clock, calculator, calendar etc
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While the PSP Phone is getting closer and closer to becoming a real device and not only a rumour, we’re barely introduced to concepts of similar Xbox-based contraptions. The latest is an Xbox 360-Zune hybrid designed by the concept artists of T3.
The specs list is very limited for this concept, but it does impress us with 64GB of flash storage and all the phone functions one could dream of. This is a rather thin device, but I guess that it’s the Zune talking here and its influence. Add a TV-out and decent battery to this portable Xbox 360 and I’ll be its fan. You can find more pics of the device here.
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Sony has apparently filed for a touchscreen PSP patent, or so the word goes round, but no official confirmation till now. We’re dealing with leaked info from the patent office, that mentions a “digital tactile pixels” system used in a phone, media player, web browsing/e-mail device and navigation system.
Sure sounds like a PSP Phone to me, but a touchscreen PSP is just as good.
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This pic’s name speaks for itself: “PSP Vaio Fake by Yon”, not that it’s a bad thing, as even the most unbelievable concepts have a pretty interesting idea. The good old PSP got redesigned and branded Vaio and it now comes with an incorporated webcam, a Flash LED, a bigger memory stick, an incorporated microphone, a 3.2 megapixel camera with a Xenon Flash and backlit buttons.
Tell me it’s also a phone and I’m committed for life…
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Check out the following concept, one of the most complex console/phone designs I’ve ever seen. So, the PSP finally gets a touchscreen, a better interface, a healthy pack of apps and a QWERTY keypad. I don’t quite see myself texting quickly on that though.
And that display would better be shock resistant and tough… Other than that, the iWish is a piece of heaven I’d get my hands on, if it were real.
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It’s been a while since the last PSP phone concept, but the device below might as well be a candidate for that name, specially since it’s (supposedly) a Sony Ericsson handset. Meet The Street Hunter phone, designed by Remi Tod, who probably fancies chocolate bars as much as we do, since his device is based on components that look like such sweets.
The “chocolate bars” include the phone’s keys and they’ll switch position as you pass from the phone mode, to gaming console mode or MP3 player mode. The audio player is probably the most convincing of the three, while the console really made me curios. Is this worthy of a PSP Phone branding? We think it is.
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Well Nokia knows better than to give a handheld gaming device another go, considering their lack of success with the N-Gage. While they’re getting ready for a N-Gage platform experience, Cromosoma 23 from Coroflot shows us Nokia DA-GAME, a handheld console designed for father and son experiences.
I see that the device only features a D-pad plus two more buttons on its back and a pretty decent display. Unless that display is a touchscreen, we won’t be playing anything better than Tetris, Asteroids or Pong. I guess they’ll do, specially if these gadgets are bought by parents for their 5 year old who has never heard of the PSP.
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A person who’s read the last year’s mobile industry news should know by now that portable consoles will become extinct in the next 5 to 10 years, being replaced by phones with the same features, if not better. However, while they’re here, those portable gaming devices still make gamers go crazy.
Just look at the Microsoft Xune concept below, a combination between Zune, iPod, Xbox and Sony Mylo.
Basically we’re dealing with the Xbox 360 controller with a touch of Mylo and iPod Nano. The console also features shoulder buttons, a touchwheel with a center button (a la Xbox 360), a sliding keyboard and 4:3 ratio aspect ratio screen. The keyboard will be used for web surfing, email and chat, while the device is compatible with the Xbox 360 and Windows Media Center.
It seems that the designer of this concept console also thinks about a widescreen version. However, I’m already thinking about Skype on this beauty, some memory card support plus touchscreen and accelerometer. Here’s a video collection of all Xbox portable concepts so far:
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As I promised yesterday, I added most of the PSP 2 concept designs that were featured on Kotaku to a video that you can check out below. See the best two concepts in the previous post and the full list of designs on the original site.
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