PlayStation Phone from Sony Expected To Be Launched In October

Sony Ericson is making efforts on a phone that is using the platform of Google’s Android. This phone is expected to be released this year. Now gaming and communication would be beautifully blended in the PlayStation phone from Sony. This phone is reported to be out on the market by October.

The CVG in the month of June unveiled that a trademark is being developed for Sony device and it would be named ‘PlayView’. However, now there are more issues about the Sony cross held between a Captivate phone as well as a PSPGo.

Few features of the new phone have been revealed. It would include side-slider gaming controls and the QWERTY keyboard would not be a part of it. The D-pad would also be there but it would lack small joystick.

According to a report published by the Engadget, this new device is expected to have a long touchpad in order to get the analog controls. Apart from that, it would also have the standard PSP buttons and the shoulder buttons

The display would be quite large between 3.7 and 4.1 inches. WVGA would also be a part of it in order to promote better resolution. It is possible that there would be a 5 megapixel camera and a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. At the initial stages, the phone would be available in black color with a highlight of silver while the gamepad area would be white or silver in color.

Via : latestbusiness-news.com

Sony Ericsson Plans Android 3 PlayStation Phone

Imagine if your Android cellphone could play PlayStation-like games. Now further imagine that in place of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, it had a slight-out game controller, complete with D-pad, buttons and an analog control-strip. What you are imagining may already exist inside Sony Ericsson’s labs, and may be coming to you as soon as October of this year.

Engadget cites a “trusted source” inside Sony Ericsson and has some surprisingly detailed specs for the machine (which is seen in Engadget’s own mockup above). The phone, which will look something like a cross between a Samsung Captivate and a PSP Go, will probably be powered by a 1-GHz Snapdragon processor, sport a wide VGA-resolution screen of around four inches and possibly include a 5-MP camera.

Sounds great, right? There will also, the rumor goes, be a dedicated section of the already fragmented Android market for the games, which will be comparable in graphics quality to PSP games. The whole lot will be running on a specially-skinned version of the upcoming Android 3 (Gingerbread).

This is pretty much a PlayStation phone, and we don’t have to say how hot that would be. If this is true, it could be the first real phone-gaming rival to the iPhone, and will likely offer a very different style of game. The iPhone’s touch-screen is great for puzzlers and strategy games, but when you want to blast through a platformer or just go out and shoot some damn zombies, hardware controls are where it’s at.

I’m uncommonly excited about this rumor, not least because it means that I could likely hack it to run emulators for old consoles and get into some retro-games on my phone.

Via : wired.com

Sony planning PSP smartphone?

Rumours are spreading across the InterWebs that Sony Ericsson is working on a PlayStation branded smartphone using the Android 3.0 operating system.

It can sometimes be very difficult to work out where these sort of rumours originally came from, but this one can be clearly laid at the door of website Engadget. Although they're unable to provide any evidence beyond a 'trusted source'.

Said rumourmonger claims that the reason Sony Ericsson hasn't yet released an Android 2.0 device is because it's trying to jump the queue with a cross between a PSPgo and a Samsung Captivate. This apparently means it'll have a landscape slider with 'game controls' instead of a keyboard.

These controls will include a D-pad and a 'long touch pad' instead of analogue controllers - plus standard PlayStation face and shoulder buttons.

The screen is apparently between 3.7 and 4.1 inches in size with WVGA or higher resolution (so in layman's terms its very big and with a very sharp picture). A 5 megapixel camera is also being mooted and a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU.

We've no idea what a Snapdragon CPU is but apparently the graphics will be 'in the range of PSone or PSP games'. That seems surprisingly low tech and not a step-up from the current PSP, let alone the 3DS.

Read More @ metro.co.uk

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Engadget's back to school guide: E-readers

Welcome to Engadget's Back to School guide! We know that this time of year can be pretty annoying and stressful for everyone, so we're here to help out with the heartbreaking process of gadget buying for the school-aged crowd. Today, we have e-readers in our sights -- and you can head to the Back to School hub to see the rest of the product guides as they're added throughout the month.

Yes, it's the next round of buying advice for those of you condemned to start hitting the books at the end of the summer. But, with one of these e-readers, you might just have fewer books to hit -- or at least lighter ones. Sadly most schools are still dependent on texts of the pulpy variety, but that doesn't mean an e-reader can't make your life a lot easier at school, and possibly even save you some money if you're reading the classics.

Via : engadget.com

Gaming, Peripherals Splitfish announces power-saving FragFX Shark controller for PS3, PC and Mac

SplitFish isn't providing a ton of details on this one just, but it has announced that its new FragFX Shark controller for the PS3, PC and Mac will be making its official debut at Gamescon later this month, and it's given us our first look at it.

As you can see, it's not all that different from the company's standard FragFX PS3 controller, but the company promises that it will be more "ecology-friendly" thanks to some new power-saving measures that'll let you get 50 hours of gameplay from a single AA battery.

Also set to debut at the show are the FragFX Piranha and FragFX Barracuda, although Splitfish isn't still saying anything about those apart from the fact they're also PS3 controllers. Head on past the break for the complete press release

Via : engadget.com