Gaming phones War Nokia "Nintendo" and SonyEricsson "Playstation phone"

The attempts to create a gaming device based on a mobile phone are not new. Sony Ericsson was always the most ambitious in this respect. Its phones were the first to feature the horizontal orientation of the screen and dedicated gaming buttons A+B. This project turned out to be a non starter. In 2005 Walkman series was launched and 2007 was to see the launch of a PSP phone, but Sony finally discarded the idea. Look at the patent for the model from 2005.

Sony believed that such a phone could have negatively influenced the sales of PSP. At the same time Sony Ericsson was reluctant to develop a gaming phone without the rich array of games and necessary gaming support. In this classical situation Sony refrained from becoming a pioneer to retain the current market share. A severe crisis, drop in sales, loss of its market share led to the arrival of the new management and old projects resurfaced. At the end of 2009 Sony Ericsson returned to the development of a gaming phone. Sony was not against this time, because they gradually move away from UMD disks for distribution and adopt electronic sales, which is easier and more sensible. I don't want to remind you that PSP was unlocked within months and game images could be downloaded from memory cards.

In 2011 the company will try to return to the market with the unique selling point, which I rather like. People from Engadget found all the information about it and even created the image of the future model.

The picture is horrible and brings more damage than good, because it does not convey the design, which deserves a lot of credit. We have to keep the phone in our hands (which is impossible now) to assess it. In pictures it looks not only glossy, but is quite attractive and differs from PSP Go. It reminds me of my euphoria from the first PSP. The materials are similar, but it is a phone after all.