A little bit more evidence regarding that explosive PSP/Android news from last week has arrived courtesy of gaming site Eurogamer, which is today reporting on Sony’s plans for the next generation of PSP.
The site doesn’t specifically mention Android, but does confirm the rumour about a future PSP coming with a touch-sensitive control area in addition to standard buttons – one of the main elements of that incredible “PlayStation phone” rumour.
Here’s a brief chunk from Eurogamer’s piece:
“According to three separate development sources who have seen and used the new PSP, the screen is rich and detailed but the headline feature is the way games are controlled – by a touch-sensitive area on the back of the unit behind the screen”
Of course, that next-gen PSP and the so-called PlayStation Phone may be two separate branches of hardware design, but Sony planning touch-based gaming is surely a little hint that the PSP/Android rumour may well turn out to be correct?
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Gary C
/ August 19, 2010MarkG’s going to kick my arse for writing about this
Ed Burnette
/ August 20, 2010Those Eurogamer links don’t work.
Gary C
/ August 20, 2010Oh wow, the shame of that. In the year 2010.