Looks like the PlayStation Phone, likely to be dubbed Xperia Play, is more than just a ‘potential opportunity‘, with Engadget uncovering what look like the technical specs from a Chinese forum.
“Well, that was quick,” says the tech blog. “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,” continues Engadget, “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 things found in the leak include a large battery capacity (1,500mAh), a 854 x 480 resolution 4 inch LCD screen, a 5 megapixel camera, half a GB of RAM (and the same as ROM), expansion friendly microSD and microUSB slots and a second mic, presumably for noise cancellation.
But most interestingly is the game launcher app pre-installed, which is called PlayStation Pocket and looks like this:
It’s (obviously) currently empty, but those tabs across the top say (according to this translation) All, Recently Played Games and Recently Added Games. It’s fairly obviously some kind of iTunes/App-like interface for gaming, but as to what those games will be – well, that’s anyone’s guess right now.
Let’s hope the same games run on the PSP 2…
MrSpeedyGonzales
Don’t understand any of the technical points, but wow it looks pretty!
gaffers101
Someone on the same wave length as me, I was just thinking the same thing.
Good job there are all these people who do know what the specs mean to tell us if it’s any good or not :)
cc_star
Just read that the specs aren’t sufficient to emulate the current PSP, this means porting is the only option (if at all) starting to sound a complete waste of time to me… a phone which is at the upper end of last years phones, not as powerful as the Galaxy S… it’s going to be positively useless compared to the range of dual core Android phones & iPhone 5 in the second half of anyone’s contract.
Can’t see the point of releasing a phone which isn’t on the bleeding edge, and I’m almost certain to not be bothering waiting for it.
jimmy-google
I’d seen reports elsewhere suggesting that the spec shouldn’t have a problem playing PSP games.
I guess we’ll have to wait and see what is said when it actually gets announced.
Awayze
What?
PSP is running 5 year old hardware, of course Android phones have by far superior power therefore with correct software will be able to play PSP game especially if Sony modifys Android right.
Snebjnr
Not bad, but I thought the specs would have been better. The display especially – shouldnt most companies be now trying to beat Apple’s “Retina” display? I also expected more RAM =S
I do like the touchpad and control slide however =)
MadJunkBoy
It… lookes… so… pretty…
Will have to wait for more info on this before considering a buy…
MadJunkBoy
ok that post wasn’t ment as a reply… wierd…
beeje13
Wow, If people are only gonna get one (PSPhone or PSP2) I think it’s quite obvious which to get, UNTIL we get to price…. how much do you think this’ll be ?
picld
This would imply an imminent FW upgrade to include PlayStationPocket support, right? Even before the phone hits shelves.
icuyesido
Decided to get one, why not, while to the PSP2.