Sony Ericsson working on a PSP phone?

by Evan Blass posted Sep 5th 2006 at 9:45PM

As far as rumors go, this one is about as thin on the deets as they come, but Cnet Asia is reporting that Sony Ericsson senior VP of Product and Application Planning, Rikko Sakaguchi, actually alluded to plans for a game-playing phone at a recent press event in Sweden. During what was presumably the Q&A portion of a media conference in honor of the merged company's fifth anniversary, Sakaguchi reportedly answered a question about a theoretical PSP phone (most decidedly NOT pictured above) by saying simply that Sony Ericsson "is working on something," but that "the surprise must be kept for the future." Yeah, we know, not too much meat here -- Sakaguchi did mention that the objective was to integrate gaming and communications functions, not to create a dedicated gaming device (whatever that means) -- however, after the relative success of its Walkman and Cybershot lineup of handsets, it certainly makes sense for the company to leverage the PlayStation brand in this market as well. Sony Ericsson would be wise, though, to learn from Nokia's experience with the N-Gage, which is that, well, people don't like the N-Gage. So, here's to hoping that the Ericsson side of the equation can knock some sense into the Sony side of the equation, or else we may end up with a bulky, side-talkin' handset which uses even more proprietary formats that no one is interested in.

[Via Maxconsole]

Filed under: Games, Handsets, Sony Ericsson

Tags: cellphones, cnet, gaming, handsets, playstation, psp, rumors, sony ericsson, SonyEricsson, videogames

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Josh @ Sep 5th 2006 11:27PM

Finally, a worthy product that will take back market share from that Apple phone. Wait a minute...

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johnny donato @ Jan 10th 2007 2:03AM

that photochop is the most ballinest fone, eva! it makes my dookie twinkle!

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DarkFader @ Sep 6th 2006 4:34AM

Imagine that woman holding a PSP-phone ;P

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PEZ @ Sep 6th 2006 6:14AM

Uh yeah its called a MYLO. Next year that thing will be a full fledged phone with 3G - at least.

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