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Would this NOT be the BEST Android phone EVER?!

txrxio said:
They are already doing an Android phone, the Xperia Play:
Exclusive: Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (PlayStation Phone) preview -- Engadget

Probably not too much of a stretch.
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True, but the specs between the two devices is a little different. For instance, the Xperia Play has a 2nd gen Snapdragon (Scorpion core, 1ghz, Adreno 205 GPU). The PSP has a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 (undisclosed clock speed), and a PowerVR SGX543 GPU. The GPU should be on par with Tegra 2's GPU. If clocked at 1ghz, then it has the potential to be up to twice as fast as Tegra 2 in CPU related operations.
 
I was meaning that if they are happy doing an Android gaming phone already, they'd be more open to doing the another.
 
The UI looks suspiciously like a modded Android. It has the same icon designs, though the battery icon is from Android 2.2 and that may change as Gingerbread has a different battery icon. The cues are similar to Androids that are modded for a landscape tablet like display, such as the Dell Streak.

Also another clue is that it has a Home icon on the notification bar. That clearly suggests its a touch screen and that you can either pull down the bar, or press long enough to open the home application screen.

The three dots on the side tells me you can probably swipe between different homescreens but the motion is vertical and not horizontal.
 
PoweredByLE5 said:
Sony's next PSP, codenamed NGP -- Engadget

Anyone else agree? Quad core processor hell yeah! 3G, WiFi, GPS, a rear-mounted touchpad, accelerometer, an electronic compass, and cameras on both the front and back. Would it not be the ultimate android phone??? Screw the upcoming sidekick, replace it with this! With android 3.0! Let's all send emails to Sony to convince them to do it!!
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Why limit ourselves to 3G when 4G is probably the closest thing to reality (in a reasonable timeframe) on that list?
 
Its a sony though, won't it force you to use a memory stick instead of micro sd, and have to use a sony propritary charging port instead of microusb and if it breaks get shipped around the world 6 times for repair (I worked in a pc shop one time, it took 6 months for them to repair something as simple as a floppy drive)
 
I just glanced at the article and didnt read it the other day.....that thing has a quad core in it??
 
Lol... hate to be a ballbreaker..

But, quad core for gaming purposes still hasn't caught on in desktops.

Most games these days are still optimized for dual cores :rolleyes:

I think people get way over interested in specs without thinking about what they actually mean and can actually do first.

The truth behind a psp (or any other hand held) is really about the same as consoles.. its horribly limited, and the real advantage is working with the same hardware more so than anything else..

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and for what it is worth android phones are not consoles.. so the usefulness comes into major question.

How many people would really develop for it over tegra 2?

If handheld consoles lose the advantage of universal hardware it gets ugly fast...

SO in the future you will rely on invidia if you have tegra 2.. sony/sony devs if you have psphone..

Bleh... heading to a royal mess.
 
Snow_Fox said:
Lol... hate to be a ballbreaker..

But, quad core for gaming purposes still hasn't caught on in desktops.

Most games these days are still optimized for dual cores :rolleyes:
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You need to forget about PC gaming development and think more along the liens of consoles for a second. Developers learned how to use a tri-core CPU via the Xbox 360, and how to use a single-core with 6 specialized mini-cores on the PS3.

On the phone side, developers are used to coding graphical effects through an ARM CPU due to a total lack of a GPU (until recently). I could easily see more advances games using 2-3 cores for computations, and the remaining 1-2 cores for offloaded graphics tasks (like the Cell does) to assist the GPU.

Of course, that's speculation on my part. The Cell can share video RAM with the GPU (RSX) of the PS3. The NGP/PSP2 would have to have the same capability for my theory to work.
 
and of course battery life of a little over 15 mins.

I like the nice specs and all, but until 3.x smartphone edition comes out, we still don't have GPU-accelerated UI.
 
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