PlayStation Phone
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Kulangot_AG
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I think the two dots on the wide touchscreen canvas serve as virtual dual sticks.
But I expect them to be just as imprecise as on-screen virtual joysticks on the iOS games.
But I expect them to be just as imprecise as on-screen virtual joysticks on the iOS games.
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/26/the-playstation-phone/
I'm not too keen on this, it looks just like a PSP Go, just with phone capabilities and most likely worse and few games.
Of course I would take it over my current phone and Sony Ericsson's first attempt at a gaming phone - the Sony Ericsson F305. It is quite crap to say the least
I'm not too keen on this, it looks just like a PSP Go, just with phone capabilities and most likely worse and few games.
Of course I would take it over my current phone and Sony Ericsson's first attempt at a gaming phone - the Sony Ericsson F305. It is quite crap to say the least
gosse
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Engadget article
Also, PSP Phone is fake.
[edit]Did not see the other topic in off-topic section...[/edit]
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EDIT: Apparently, those are buttons on there. It just looked like a crappy touchpad initially cause its just a mock up. So if this thing is real, it does in fact have buttons making my rant about it having no buttons redundant and silly, hence the edit. Still, the buttons look kinda crappy anyway
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Exophase
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It's not fake just because Sony refuses to comment. If anything that makes it more likely that it's real; Sony has dropped lines like that before when information on something has been leaked.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/27/the-playstation-phone-is-still-real/
For as much as Engadget gets things wrong, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they're not flat out lying. Those other nothing sites crying fake are completely lacking in evidence and just want to look clever.
How in the world does this not have buttons?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/27/the-playstation-phone-is-still-real/
For as much as Engadget gets things wrong, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they're not flat out lying. Those other nothing sites crying fake are completely lacking in evidence and just want to look clever.
How in the world does this not have buttons?
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Orion4874
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Damn, ninja'd by Exophase!
I tend to believe Engadget on this one. Sony denies everything initially.
I tend to believe Engadget on this one. Sony denies everything initially.
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craigix
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If it isn't real yet it will be one day which is why I subscribe to the Pandora should run Android camp.
milkshake
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I agree.
gosse
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Woah, the article I posted about it being fake was edited.
Now it says something along the lines "we don't talk about rumors and speculations" but before the edit it was like "those images are fake".
The users are talking about it in the comments of the article.
Now it says something along the lines "we don't talk about rumors and speculations" but before the edit it was like "those images are fake".
The users are talking about it in the comments of the article.
Sugar_Kane
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I don't see any reason why that would be fake, but I'm having a little trouble understanding why Sony would make an Android gaming phone, unless they were about to unleash a massive catalogue of games, as quite frankly Android has no good native games, and I can't see Sony deliberately supporting emulation. Maybe it'll have PSP hardware too... One thing's fro sure, it's going to be a chunky mutha.
Dead1nside
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Differentiation is surely the key here. If you're going to try and compete with phone manufacturers you're going to lose. They have more experience, can iterate faster and have the large marketing budgets and contacts.
Getting the Pandora out to people is obviously number one, but improving the software and OS is equally as important. Why can't you put some of the dev fund money to use and get a solid SDK and toolchain that's easy to use for everyone ready. Then have a coding competition. Or put bug/feature bounties on the OS.
Getting the Pandora out to people is obviously number one, but improving the software and OS is equally as important. Why can't you put some of the dev fund money to use and get a solid SDK and toolchain that's easy to use for everyone ready. Then have a coding competition. Or put bug/feature bounties on the OS.
SNESFAN
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Exophase
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Sony is a big company, not everything they do is going to be the same sort of commercial release-only gaming platform. This is a phone first and foremost, with the controls being useful for existing phone games (which is a huge market already).. whether or not the platform has games that you consider good doesn't really matter because the platform has games that sell. They don't need to release new games to make it an attractive purchase. There's very little chance of it having PSP hardware.
Sony deliberately supporting emulation is hardly out of the question either, both PSP and PS3 emulate PS1 games. There's a possibility we'll see the same PS1 game availability on this platform.
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Sugar_Kane
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It just seems a bizarre direction to me. Obviously yes mobile gaming is huge, but the bulk of that has been driven away from physical controls to touchscreen gaming. In that sense it seems strange to release a phone of this kind to purely play a library of games that were mostly designed for touch input (whether or not they can be controlled by other means, I suspect that a larger section of the audience do prefer to not have physical controls). Which is why it would seem likely that they were going to introduce some kind of gaming catalogue of their own.
I also realise that they support emulation of their own systems on their own systems as individually sold items, which I would have no doubt would be included in any catalogue of games that they may or may not be releasing to coincide with the phone, I was referring to things like UAE etc, front-end rom booting emulators. I would imagine that they would say that they were aware that you could use this device for such things, but I can't ever imagine them advertising it as a feature, maybe I'm wrong. I guess there's the chance that they know the potential market for emulation whether or not they officially support it, and are banking on selling enough units purely on that.
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KachinaKite
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What work needs to be done to bring Android to the Pandora?
Should these efforts be encouraged under the current Dev Fund?
Or a new, dedicated one? It seems superfluous to the needs of early supporters like us; we will have what we wanted when Ångström is ironed out.
But if we want the Pandora to succeed more widely, Android will make people more comfortable: "Oh, I see. It's like the Ipod for Google Phones." I plan to support Pandora Ångström under either model.
I apologize for bringing this up if it has been talked to death already elsewhere. I haven't been keeping up for the past three months. Also I should confess I've never understood how the Dev Fund is supposed to be administered and disbursed.
Should these efforts be encouraged under the current Dev Fund?
Or a new, dedicated one? It seems superfluous to the needs of early supporters like us; we will have what we wanted when Ångström is ironed out.
But if we want the Pandora to succeed more widely, Android will make people more comfortable: "Oh, I see. It's like the Ipod for Google Phones." I plan to support Pandora Ångström under either model.
I apologize for bringing this up if it has been talked to death already elsewhere. I haven't been keeping up for the past three months. Also I should confess I've never understood how the Dev Fund is supposed to be administered and disbursed.
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SNESFAN
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