Sony PSP Phone
Today, everything seems to be small and mobile. Computers evolved to something smaller in size and weight but retaining the speed of desktops. Gaming Consoles such as Nintendo and Playstation has also transformed into mobile gaming consoles.
Sony has been positioned to serve all the technological needs of it customers. From Sony Vaio, Sony PSP, and Sony Cybershot. But Sony is not contented with it at all. With it's merging with Switzerland-based Ericsson Company, they will make a great mobile Phone-The Sony Ericsson PSP Phone
The main question Sony Ericsson asked when designing PSP phone was – what is the main problem with using your phone for mobile games?
And the answer was – gaming controls.The numeric keypad is just not good enough to control the action in games. But who says all the keys on the numeric keypad have to be identical?
Sony has already designed very good game controls on PSP. So now they just made a few keys on numeric keypad into a game controls and the problem was solved.
The other problem was that most of the good games are played holding PSP console with both hands and using two thumbs to control game characters. And the phone is operated usually with a single hand and thumb.
Rotating screen came to the rescue here. When the device is in a phone mode, all you have is a simple mobile phone with numeric keypad , menu and function keys. Turn the screen around 180 degrees, your menu/functional keys are transformed into game controls and you have a perfectly good portable gaming device.
Oh and why not use the screen turned 90 degrees to make this device into a mobile TV station as well?
The beauty of it all is that Sony will not have to worry about the games for the PSP phone. Just make it compatible with the standard PSP games and Nokia will have a really tough time catching up with it’s next gen N-Gage platform.
source:http://www.unwiredview.com/2007/06/01/psp-phone-from-sony-ericsson/