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Designers must have been so disappointed with Sony’s PSP Go!, that they decided not to create any more PSP Phone or PSP 2 concepts… Esato board user pavlov’s dog breaks the ice and shows us a very neat concept, a PSP Phone, judging by the presence of the Sony Ericsson branding.
Without the side controls (d pad, analog and action buttons) this concept looks just like the PSP Go!, but the additions are welcome, specially if we consider the mess Sony made with their new console. Am I the only one who doesn’t like the PSP Go!?
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Esato board user Sealover94 designed a great PSP Phone concept, a sliding device with unknown features and its maker claims that any input is welcome, so you can suggest new features and design traits, if you want. I spot an 8 megapixel camera at the back, also a front videocall camera and I’m betting that the action buttons are hidden beneath the screen.
One might even suppose that this PSP Phone incorporates a sliding QWERTY keypad, maybe even analog sticks (unlikely) and a touchscreen. Tons of memory on board, of course, Bluetooth, WiFi, 3G hopefully and whatnot… What would like to see on this PSP Phone, spec-wise?
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We know that a brand new iPhone is coming this summer, but will it look anything like this leaked shot? Unbelievable as it may seem, this device packs a sliding QWERTY keyboard, a directional pad for games and action buttons placed among the rest of the keys.
I guess the touchscreen will be kept, but most of the gaming will be done with the aid of the physical keyboard. If an analog controller makes it in there too, you can count me as a fan of the new iPhone, however I wonder how such a feature can be implemented with the sliding keypad and all.
Who’ll need a PSP or Nintendo DS if such a handset is launched?
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The “iPhone inside a joystick” concept below reminds me of some portable Xbox designs I’ve seen a while back, but this time you’ll be forced to carry a backpack with you, since the controller is kind of big for your pockets.
Notice how the joystick manages to incorporate Apple’s handset, connecting to it, in order to provide the needed input generated by the two analogs, the 4 action buttons, 2 menu buttons and the directional pad.
My only question is: “Does it have shoulder buttons?”
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Beatmag from Mobile-Review designed a very promising Nokia gaming phone, that strays away from the N-Gage series and looks more like an Internet tablet. Notice the presence of a touchscreen (3.2 or 3.3 inches, 16:9) on the specs list, plus a QWERTY keypad, action buttons (X, Y) and a directional pad.
What’s the deal with that old-school game on the screen? I guess it’s an emulated title of some sort, since the graphics are so last-gen, but the concept device is pretty promising, although it’s a bit too big for our taste.
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Unless we’ve been gadget-blind for the past months, this hot NGAGE concept is news to us and what a hot piece of gadgetry it is! Ignore the fact that this Nokia gaming phone is bulky and have a look at those neat on-screen graphics, plus a pretty decent camera at the back and a user-friendly control pad.
Everything looks great, even the keys’ backlighting, but keep in mind that the device is shown upside down on the left side of the image above, so don’t judge it by the strange form factor it seems to have, for a few seconds.
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We’ve missed showing PSP Phone concepts, specially since they’re all we’ve got right now, because Sony prefers to focus on the their losses and crisis, instead of a potential console/phone.
The PSP Phone 3000 was designed by YouTube user ivanUshline and it packs two sensor analogs that can be used like mini touch pads and a touchscreen display with support for multitouch.
According to the designer, this PSP Phone is very small and it’s also a portable PS3, using Mini Blue Ray disks and the classic Memory Stick Pro Duo. The device is a dual sliding one, so you’ll have to slide to the right to reveal the gaming controls or to the left to reveal the numeric keypad. The “Start”, “Select” and “Home” buttons are now virtual ones, accessible via touchscreen.
What do you think? Is this concept far from reality or is it doable in let’s say 2 years?
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Imagine the perfect portable console… Now leave all the thoughts about the PSP behind and check out the concept below. This “iPSPhone”, as we call it, is (obviously) a hybrid between a PSP and the iPhone, but the quality of the final shots is rather poor.
You can call this a PSP Phone if you want, but I’m not sure about its phone features….
Strangely enough, the author of the original post that shows the handset calls the device an “iPhone Slider”, without mentioning any link to the PSP, although there’s a pretty big PlayStation branding between the concept’s directional pads.
The button layout is quite strange, it’s like one set of buttons got repeated and pasted near the first one.
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Fancy a touchscreen player? Already got an iPod Touch? How about some neat console features? Enter Sega Go, a concept portable player designed by Daniel Kroker, that also uses 3G technology (guess that makes it a phone, too) and movement sensors used for gaming.
The device also incorporates a touchscreen and a pretty decent pack of video codecs (we think). Can’t really tell if those sliding parts feature touch-based controls or not, but Sega Go seems a really nice concept overall.
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This project had designer Amber Chamberlain as a member and it turns out that his group assignment was mentioning a modern gaming device, even before the PSP surfaced, since the concept dates from 2003. Imagine a cellular wireless product meant for the elderly… Imagine that it keeps them in touch via simplistic games, it keeps scores, game conditions and other data, no matter where the players are located.
We’re talking 50 plus demographics… What type of games would these people play? Something tells me that this idea would appeal to the younger public as well. What do you say?
(28 votes, average: 4.54 out of 5)
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Designers must have been so disappointed with Sony’s PSP Go!, that they decided not to create any more PSP Phone or PSP 2 concepts… Esato board user pavlov’s dog breaks the ice and shows us a very neat concept, a PSP Phone, judging by the presence of the Sony Ericsson branding.
(22 votes, average: 4.09 out of 5)
