Monday, August 16, 2010

Sony Ericsson plans on developing PSP-Go Android Smartphone

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Google's Android mobile operating system has muscle its way into the mobile industry, waging a war with Apple's iPhone OS. And Google is doing great, in terms of sales (according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, about 200,000 new Android devices are being sold each day), and addressing the problems that developers and consumers encounter on "close-sourced" mobile devices. Unlike any other commercial application/operating system, as soon as you buy an Android-based mobile device, you also get full control of its source code. Android is today's fastest growing mobile platform and in two or three years time, I think the market will be filled with Android-based phones and even netbooks. By this time, tons of Android applications will be available and its high time that Apple gets to dance with a formidable opponent. 

With Nokia's success story on Symbian-based mobile devices, they made a bold move on introducing a Symbian s60-based handheld gaming system, the N-Gage. Among their objectives, is to invade the Game Boy Advance market since Nokia N-Gage is a mobile device and a gaming console. Unfortunately, the design didn't entice gamers. The N-Gage 's design is not well-tailored for gaming and as a mobile device. 

And now it's time for manufacturers to play on the Android platform. Nokia has done its part on the Symbian-based N-Gage and it didn't go quite well. Now Sony wants to take a bite on developing a Mobile gaming device. Sony, the company who brought us countless innovations like the Walkman, Betamax, Compact discs, Discman, Memory Stick, Playstation, Playstation Portable (PSP), is now on the road to a new innovation with their partner Ericsson (now Sony Ericsson). Combining Ericsson's expertise on the mobile communications sector and Sony's technological prowess, we introduce to you the PSP-Go Android-based Smartphone by Sony Ericsson. 

PSP-Go Android Mobile Phone
Engadget's Mock-up of the PSP-Go Smartphone

Sony Ericsson will be building this baby on Android's 3.0 platform.  With the capabilities and freedom that Google's Android mobile operating system provide, the PSP-Go Smartphone will definitely be running 3D games, thus will create a space for game developers for the Android market. The PSP-Go Smartphone is envisioned to be a cross between the Samsung Captivate and the Playstation Portable Go version. 

Samsung Captivate and PSP-Go

The PSP Go's slider game controller will  most likely replace the typical slide out QWERTY keyboard on touch screen mobile devices. This way, the device will be able to handle large QVGA touch screen displays. Probably, the device will carry Sony's Cyber-shot brand in it's back. And since it's a PSP-Go-like Smartphone, we'll see classic PSP game titles like God of War and Call of Duty. Sweet! 

What more could you ask for? Large QVGA touch screen displays, slide out PSP game control pad, running on Google's Android mobile operating system, sharp Cyber-shot camera features and quality, and the best of all, 3D Gaming, all in one device. Engadget revealed that we'll possibly see the device and the whole Android gaming platform this October. 

Gamers, time to save those moolah for this baby.

Source: Tom's Guide

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