sony`s psp phone ??? booyeah !

Nowadays everything seems to be converging into a mobile phone. It already can be a perfectly good digital camera (e.g.Sony Ericsson K 850 i), a mobile TV station a music player or GPS receiver One of the things missing here was a mobile gaming platform. But it’s coming too.

And who’s better positioned to create a perfect mobile gaming platform then Sony? It already has one - Sony PSP. It also makes some great mobile phones via joint venture with Swedish Ericsson.

Their recent patent filling shows how Sony Ericsson will go about integrating these two gadgets:

The main question Sony Ericsson asked when designing PSP phone was - what is the main problem with using your phone for mobile games?

And the answer was - gaming controls.The numeric keypad is just not good enough to control the action in games. But who says all the keys on the numeric keypad have to be identical?

Sony has already designed very good game controls on PSP. So now they just made a few keys on numeric keypad into a game controls and the problem was solved.

The other problem was that most of the good games are played holding PSP console with both hands and using two thumbs to control game characters. And the phone is operated usually with a single hand and thumb a rotating screen may come to the rescue here. When the device is in a phone mode, all you have is a simple mobile phone with numeric keypad , menu and function keys. Turn the screen around 180 degrees, your menu/functional keys are transformed into game controls and you have a perfectly good portable gaming device.

Oh and why not use the screen turned 90 degrees to make this device into a mobile Tv staion as well?

The beauty of it all is that Sony will not have to worry about the games for the PSP phone. Just make it compatible with the standard PSP games and Nokia will have a really tough time catching up with it’s next gen N-gage platform. above we can see the pictures of the sony`s concept of the psp phone awaiting patent ....

and personally i want this thing to come soon ... cos thr is this game called GOW ( god of war ) that i can`t resist will be gettin a psp version called the chains of olympus ... always wanted to buy that jus for the purpose pf playin that game .. now i have an excuse called replacing my old cellii !... booyeah !

courtesy - unwiredview.com