News · 27 Oct 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
Remember the rumored Sony Ericsson PSP Android phone from last August? Well here are the first like pictures of one of the prototype devices in the wild. The phone is supposedly going to run Android 3.0 (If what we are seeing in the pictures is 3.0 then it looks really similar to what we have now…which would be a disappointment..), packs and MSM8655 (or MSM8255 depending on the region) Qualcomm chipset clocked at 1GHz exactly like the HTC Desire HD, it will also have access to a dedicated Sony Marketplace filled with games compatible with it (more Android fragmentation…). The touch-pad at the center of the sliding panel is also multi-touch capable.
Other than the nice MSM8X55 chipset I don’t really see anything really interesting here.Especially when you take into account that the games in the Sony Marketplace will probably only be playable on this devices. Microsoft (and Apple) has a far greater opportunity to conquer the mobile gaming market with WP7 (and ironically Sony Ericsson will probably have Xbox Live enabled WP7 devices in 2011). Now the only downside to WP7 is that all current devices only sport the Adreno 200 GPU (found in the QSD8250) but the end user surely doesn’t really care about this if there’s a greater selection of games on WP7 than on a single Android device.
source: engadget
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