The rumored Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone could hit stores as early as April, according to the news site Pocket-lint.
Pictures and videos about the upcoming game-focused phone have been appearing for a few months, suggesting that something is happening. The phone would likely be Sony&'s response to the competitive threat from Apple&'s iPhone, which has become a major gaming device with tens of thousands of game apps.
Sony Ericsson also has to worry about the threat from Windows Phone 7 phones, which feature integration with Microsoft&'s Xbox Live online gaming service.
Pocket-lint said that the phone would like be announced at the Mobile World Congress in February, not at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month, as some had hoped.
Based on earlier leaks, the phone will come with a slide-out keypad that features game-like controls in the familiar PlayStation pattern of a square, x, triangle, and circle buttons. The device reportedly has a 1 gigahertz Qualcomm MSM8655, 512 megabytes of random access memory, a gigabyte of read-only memory, and the screen is 3.7 to 4.1 inches.
Sony Ericsson hasn&'t commented. But the company&'s chief executive, Bert Nordberg, said in November, &''There&'s a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere&'', when asked about the PlayStation phonea4‚¬a4„s existence.
&''Sony has an extremely strong offering in the gaming market, and that&'s very interesting&'', Nordberg said before adding: &''gaming, including content, is a very interesting proposition&''.
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Dean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.
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