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Got a mail today from cnetasia.com where they say that
may also be soon launching playstation branded phones along with the wega branded phones announced earlier...
Read the article
here
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Posted: 2006-09-05 11:21:03
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The sony influence on sony ericsson phones is getting a little too much now.
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Posted: 2006-09-05 11:22:42
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I doubt they will. Nokia tried with the N gage but it never really caught on.
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Posted: 2006-09-05 11:23:28
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true, but the playstation name is much more stronger.
but i also think the infulence of sony is getting to big.
why not lauch a clasical line? designs like the good old T68/T39/T66/...
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Posted: 2006-09-05 11:28:16
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@deepsme Cnet.asia gets some good scoops.
For our Wappers.
Sony Ericsson to unveil PlayStation phones?
04/09/2006
Well, not quite yet. According to Sony Ericsson's senior vice president of Product and Application Planning, Rikko Sakaguchi, the company "is working on something" (related to the PlayStation phone), although he claims that "the surprise must be kept for the future".
Speaking at a media conference in Malmo, Sweden, as part of the company¡¯s upcoming 5th anniversary celebrations in October, Sakaguchi added that the objective was not to create a gaming device but one that integrates both the gaming and communication functions.
When CNET Asia asked if Sony Ericsson would use the WEGA branding for its TV-enabled handsets (after the Walkman and Cyber-shot), Sakaguchi confirmed that there are plans afoot to do something along those lines, but declined to comment further. He did, however, add that it generally takes around two years to develop a new lineup of phones such as the Walkman series. So going by that measure, it shouldn't be too long before we see the first PlayStation or WEGA handsets in the market if the current plans pan out.
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Posted: 2006-09-05 11:30:58
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Surely a PlayStation phone would clash with the PSP. Why not just develop an updated version of the EGB-10?
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Posted: 2006-09-05 11:53:40
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On 2006-09-05 11:28:16, bart wrote:
true, but the playstation name is much more stronger.
but i also think the infulence of sony is getting to big.
why not lauch a clasical line? designs like the good old T68/T39/T66/...
Good point!
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Posted: 2006-09-05 11:56:28
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I am not sure if this talk about Wega and playstation phones is just PR tattle. It just seems hard to imagine any of this coming out in the near future at the moment.
I may be wrong but, l ike Mr Sakagucci says, it takes a couple of years to develop a range of phones.
Also, far it being
using Sony sub-brand names, now it looks more like Sony using
to keep these sub-brand names in the public domain. A
Wega handset sounds a bit far-fetched to me at the moment.
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Posted: 2006-09-05 12:26:24
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Maybe a PSP 2 with mobile phone technology
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Posted: 2006-09-05 13:16:29
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More likely a Phone with "enhanced gaming support" or something like that.
My guess is that it is a new Symbian OS based phone, that has some older PSP titles pre-loaded and you can buy additional PSP titles online (native apps or Java based).
After all the Vijay Singh Pro Golf 3D game that is pre-loaded on the P990 is a pretty decent golf game with good graphics.
So a Symbian OS phone specifically designed for gaming would not be too hard to imagine (e.g. the keypad done is such a way that specific keys have the same/similar layout to the PSP, 3D graphics chip, stereo speaker design etc.).
/Mike B.
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Posted: 2006-09-05 13:37:46
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