Well, that was quick. It was just two days ago when the elusive PlayStation Phone popped up on a Hong Kong forum, and now it's back again in full exposure thanks to Chinese website IT168. It's now confirmed that said Xperia-branded device is powered by a Qualcomm Adreno 205 GPU, along with what's likely to be a 1GHz Snapdragon QSD8255 as featured on the HTC Desire HD. Interestingly, Neocore is reporting an impressive 59.1fps benchmark, which is a huge improvement from our exclusive look back in early December. Quadrant also reports a high score of 1,733, but hey, there's no saying that this is the final build, so the graphics performance may get even better.
Other tidbits found in the latest leak include the generous battery capacity of 1,500mAh, the 854 x 480 resolution on a 4-inch LCD, a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash sans 720p video recording (although it's probably just that the leaksters didn't look in all the submenu in the camera app), 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM, a microSD slot, SIM slot, micro-USB, and a second mic on the back for active noise cancellation à la Nexus One. Interestingly, the still-empty game launcher app is now called "PlayStation Pocket." We're still unclear just what the app will run; will it be PSOne games (the company has written an emulator before), PSP games, or an entirely new lineup? (In contrast, the PSP Go has a 333MHz processor, 64MB RAM, and a 3.8-inch 480 x 272 display -- albeit on different, not-quite-comparable architecture.) Hopefully we'll know soon enough, eh Kaz? Anyhow, you can peruse some pictures and videos below, and definitely check out IT168 for the full skinny on this (somewhat tick) device.
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Rumors of this being called "Xperia Play". Xperia is a brand from Sony Ericsson. If they actually call it this instead of the PlayStation Phone, what a fucking epic fail and Blue business decision. Everyone knows what PlayStation is, people have been begging for a PlayStation Phone for a long time now(even some rival console owners are interested) and many people won't know it's supposed to be a PlayStation Phone if it isn't called that. Go ahead have the Xperia label on it but don't be stupid enough to throw away hundreds of millions of dollars by giving it the wrong fucking name. Nice jobs on the "leaks", Sony. It's getting nice press, hopefully "Xperia" is just a label and not the name.
Other tidbits found in the latest leak include the generous battery capacity of 1,500mAh, the 854 x 480 resolution on a 4-inch LCD, a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash sans 720p video recording (although it's probably just that the leaksters didn't look in all the submenu in the camera app), 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM, a microSD slot, SIM slot, micro-USB, and a second mic on the back for active noise cancellation à la Nexus One. Interestingly, the still-empty game launcher app is now called "PlayStation Pocket." We're still unclear just what the app will run; will it be PSOne games (the company has written an emulator before), PSP games, or an entirely new lineup? (In contrast, the PSP Go has a 333MHz processor, 64MB RAM, and a 3.8-inch 480 x 272 display -- albeit on different, not-quite-comparable architecture.) Hopefully we'll know soon enough, eh Kaz? Anyhow, you can peruse some pictures and videos below, and definitely check out IT168 for the full skinny on this (somewhat tick) device.
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The Prototype Model
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Rumors of this being called "Xperia Play". Xperia is a brand from Sony Ericsson. If they actually call it this instead of the PlayStation Phone, what a fucking epic fail and Blue business decision. Everyone knows what PlayStation is, people have been begging for a PlayStation Phone for a long time now(even some rival console owners are interested) and many people won't know it's supposed to be a PlayStation Phone if it isn't called that. Go ahead have the Xperia label on it but don't be stupid enough to throw away hundreds of millions of dollars by giving it the wrong fucking name. Nice jobs on the "leaks", Sony. It's getting nice press, hopefully "Xperia" is just a label and not the name.