It’s one of the longest-running rumors in the tech world. One of them, one reported earlier this month, is that Apple’s iPhone will be coming to Verizon. The other, one just now leaking, is that Sony is working on a PSP-based phone to combine portable gaming with the smartphone. Sony denies it, but Engadget has gotten their hands on a PSP Phone and have all the details.
The PSP Phone combines the best features of an Android-powered smartphone with the Playstation Portable. It has buttons like the PSP for gaming as well as a nice big 4.1-inch color screen, but it features the guts of a smartphone, including a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 processor, 512 MB of RAM, 1 GB of ROM, a central touchpad that supports multitouch, and a microSD card slot. The phone is supposed to feature both Android 3, AKA Gingerbread, and a special Sony Marketplace for app and game sales.
Is the mock-up real? It looks pretty real to me. I think we’ve all learned by now to ignore companies when they deny leaked pieces of hardware, since usually the more they deny a prototype is true, the more it’s actually true.
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