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Browsing through the archive of the Esato board concepts, I’ve stumbled upon two hot PSP Phone designs that impressed me. They have quite a lot in common, starting from the color and the fact that they include touchscreen displays.
The first concept belongs to Sealover and it’s a dual sliding device with a 3.2 megapixel camera. It features two analog joysticks and is quite the looker, as you can see for yourself:
The second PSP Phone, pictured below is the creation of pavlov’s_dog and reminds me of an XPERIA handset. This also seems to be a dual sliding device, with a touchscreen, simple interface and as far as I can see no analog joystick. Also the gaming keys are extremely small, but this is an old concept after all…
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This Sony Ericsson concept is not, by any means new, as its design follows the trends of the year 2004, or 2005, but still this a hot concept of (maybe) PSP Phone. Dubbed the EF 208, this “Game Terminator” is a Sony Ericsson phone/console for gamers, that features a wide touchscreen, a camera and game controls.
I can see a fighting game on its screen and it’s surely not Tekken… Any ideas?
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I’ve seen the PSP Phone more times than I’ve seen my own handset, but sadly only surfacing as a concept. Well, the Sony La Croix blends the gaming functions of the PSP with those of a cellphone and doesn’t call itself a PSP Phone, maybe as a superstition.
Nate Ribbens is the designer of the device that has two modes: a business one and the mode for “youthful gamers”. La Croix features a touchscreen and support for video playback, but sadly when it comes to games it only shows oldies like Tetris or Space Invaders.
Hope it’ll be able to play more complex games, since it has those neat gaming controls and great display.
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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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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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I’m betting on a PSP Phone release till Christmas, since the console and related products launches have been rather weak this year. Sony would surely have an upper hand on the competition if they do decide to release such a device. In the meantime we take a glance at Oli’s Black PSP Phone concept, with a pretty interesting button placement and display.
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Not getting enough out of your PSP or Nintendo DS? Yes, we’ve shown you PSP Phone concepts, but the real thing’s always better. This time we have some official and confirmed info that claims Sony Ericsson signed a deal with GestureTek, in order to create a Nintendo Wii-style gaming experience and port it to the SE phones.
The new software will rely on the one used on the Eye Toy device and it’ll make use of the new handsets’ camera, working just like the accelerometer does in the case of some Nokia devices. There are also 2 titles mentioned as compatible with the new handset/software: Crash Bandicoot and Super Monkey Ball.
Can the phone using GestureTek’s technology really be the long-awaited PSP Phone? We’ll just have to wait for Fall 2008 to find out…
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Seems that Sony Ericsson was part of quite a show at the JavaOne conferences, since they’ve “leaked” one or two prototype phones in their video presentation. Also, Rikko Sakaguchi from SE mentions that the company will launch the device from the video in 2008. Curios? Check it out below:
Fanatics of the Sony Ericsson brand have already started assuming that we’re dealing with the PSP Phone or the rumoured Shiho handset. Other than that it’s nice to see SE getting ready to go to war against the iPhone and maybe preparing a follow-up to the XPERIA X1 through one of these prototypes.
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After seeing dozens of PSP Phone concepts, we finally stumbled upon a patent of the device, only to be surprised by how much it resembles the original iPhone patent. Sony’s patent application is called “Orientation based multiple mode mechanically vibrated touchscreen display“, which pretty much defines what you can see below.
We could be dealing with a special Sony Ericsson handset, featuring a touchscreen display, accelerometer (or some sort of orientation system) and haptics feedback. However, before comparing this device to the iPhone, we should be taking into account the fact that Sony filed this patent application on August 30, 2006, months before the launch of Apple’s device.
Does this look like a plausible PSP Phone to you? For me it spells “Nintendo DS” a bit, but that may be my usual copycat paranoia.
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Still recovering from the shock of almost seeing a real PSP Phone here, we stumble upon yet another piece of info announcing a gaming cellphone. This time we’re dealing with a patent showing a Samsung device, surprisingly enough a clamshell that has nothing to do with the PSP Phone or any N-Gage-based handset.
Forget the PSP Phone and any attempt at turning Nokia phones into real gaming devices, as Samsung’s got a new idea and a cool patent. This clamshell features an inner display that’s not fixed, being able to swing and reveal a set of gaming controls. That leaves enough room for an extra speaker and allows gamers to play in landscape mode, if portrait doesn’t do it for them.
Ergonomics and control are surely going to be a problem in the case of this device… I can’t see myself handling the control system easily and I bet that the fragile display will at some point get broken, since you can toy with it so much. What’s your take on this patent?
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Browsing through the archive of the Esato board concepts, I’ve stumbled upon two hot PSP Phone designs that impressed me. They have quite a lot in common, starting from the color and the fact that they include touchscreen displays.
(4 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5)
