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Just an Android with a flip out control pad. *yawn*

Somehow it becomes even more mundane than the rumour originally was, when you actually get to see it.

Surely the Playstation phone should have been something we all got as excited about as the original iPhone?

I don’t think Sony is really behind this product. What’s more I think they are going to disappoint with the PSP2 from what I am hearing.

Perhaps they should have got behind one or the other, and tried to do something special.

People have theorised that the console market could be in trouble in the future simply because of the convergence of portable and home hardware.

I don’t think so. But I do think that the day of the dedicated portable console is over. Nintendo’s 3DS will most likely be the last marginally successful one, and for similar dubious reasons to the Wii.

But after that it’s going to be hybrid smart phones all the way for mobile gaming…

Oh, and iPads and iPods of course!

Unfortunately this Playstation Phone doesn’t stand a chance in that market.

French gadget enthusiast blog Nowhereelse has reportedly received a copy of an invitation to a mysterious press event early next month. The event, as the invitation states, is supposedly “the most awaited event of the past 10 years.” While the authenticity of the invitation is anything but confirmed, the implication is clear: Sony Ericsson will supposedly unveil its PlayStation Phone on December 9th. While no specific mention of the PS Phone is made on the invite, the standard PlayStation icons accompanied by a matching phone icon speaks loud and clear.

If you remember we had some possible details on the “PlayStation Phone” at the end of October.

I have a horrible feeling this is just going to be an Android handset with some co-branding, and we’ll see some crappy ports of retro Playstation titles, at high prices.

There is a gaming market based on cellphones, and there are many changes that are being seen [with] Nintendo, as well as ourselves, in the field of the product for the gamers. And there are smartphones and others or even cellphones gaming markets are very popular here in japan. So the market itself is very… expanding.

We will look into those markets in trying to develop strategy for the future. Of course, we can’t talk about specific products, but smartphones and tablets… it is difficult to tell you how we can put the games on them, but they are not going to be planned in different parts of our company.

I think we can better incorporate all of these capabilities better… so when the timing is right we can probably announce… the new product that we have.

Tablets… fall somewhere in between, and it is true Apple has led the market, but when we are to enter the market, we would like to put a Sony character onto … a new product, and that is the effort we are making right now. Therefore I think you can hope for a very good product to come out.

So there you go. Clear as mud.

[L]ikely boasting Android 3.0 (aka Gingerbread), along with a custom Sony Marketplace which will allow you to purchase and download games designed for the new platform. The device … is sporting a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 (a chip similar to the one found in the G2, but 200MHz faster), 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and the screen is in the range of 3.7 to 4.1 inches.

I hope Sony manage the software side of things for this better than they have on the PSP.

People who want physical buttons on a phone / gaming device will be very happy.

But how many will they sell outside of that demographic?