PlayStation Phone

PlayStation Phone may be Shown on Dec. 9

 

 

 

 

Three days ago, Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg hinted about making "noise" at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. Yes, the Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone indeed is in works and would be shown earlier than expected. French website Nowhereelse.fr claims to have received an invitation from Sony Ericsson regarding the 'most anticipated' presentation scheduled on December 9. Apparently, the invite carries icons of PlayStation Buttons along with a phone icon.

Sony Ericsson's invite in French mentions about SE France CEO Pierre Peron making the most anticipated presentation of the last 10 years. Indeed it's going to be PlayStation Phone with the phone icon along with the other PlayStation brand gaming buttons - Cross, Circle, Triangle and Square. Apparently there's no textual mention of the PlayStation Phone but the icons give a clear indication. According to the recent trends in high-end Android smartphones, PlayStation Phone may have 1GHz CPU, 512MB ROM, 512MB ROM, 8-megapixel camera, Touchpad in slide out panel that has one analog stick with multi-touch pad and 4.0-inch touchscreen that shows Android 2.3 Gingerbread running on it.

Carrying the PlayStation Go form factor, the PlayStation Phone will have directional buttons and game buttons just like the on company's handheld console on the slide out panel. The slide out panel will also have a touch pad in the center. 

Earlier this week, Sony Ericsson France CEO Pierre Peron stated, "With Windows 7 we run the risk of standardising our smartphones. We would be obliged to compete only on design on price, which we want to avoid."

This comment was made in reference to the high growing sales of Android based Sony Ericsson phones. Peron stated that the company prefers Android since it allows more product differentiating in Sony Ericsson handsets. 

At the presentation, the PlayStation Phone might be just shown and then official launch with fanfare might take place at the MWC. Let's not forget that Sony Ericsson Xperia X12 Anzu was leaked earlier this month. This might be a teaser to Xperia X12 with PlayStation Store digital content distribution service. Think of it this way - Sony already has premium content service with all mini games content like PSP Minis.

 

Nordberg had mentioned earlier that the real challenge before launching PlayStation Phone is negotiating the right issues with game publishers. Hence, I suppose, this presentation might be a sneak peak to what the PlayStation Phone is about and a possible PSN service for the phone.

Now we eagerly wait for December 9 for Sony Ericsson to make the presentation of this decade.