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sony psp (playstation portable) to be a phone too!?! |
ShibbyLicious
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according to this article at the register the new sony psp will have phone functionality
so its a) a n gage killer and b) a rival to  products in some respect?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/33790.html
Sony Computer Entertainment chief Ken Kutaragi yesterday revealed the company's prototype design for its upcoming Playstation Portable (PSP) handheld gaming console.
He also hinted that the device may incorporate mobile phone technology.
Speaking at Sony's Transform 60 conference, Kutaragi dubbed the PSP as the "Walkman of the future". And here it is, taken from Ken's publicly downloadable presentation foils:
Sony's PSP concept design :
The PSP design certainly looks a league ahead of rival products, such as Nokia's new N-Gage and Nintendo's hugely popular GameBoy Advance. Of course, this is simply the concept design, and the final result may be less sleek, depending on such factors as ergonomics and manufacturing costs.
The device in the top right corner is the PSP Universal Media Disc (UMD), a DVD-like dual-layer medium offering 1.8GB of storage. UMD comes with DVD-style region coding and copy-protection mechanism based on the Advanced Encryption System (AES). Each disc has a unique ID number too.
Sony has already said that the PSP will be powered by a 90nm processor built from a MIPS 32-bit R4000 core. The chip will feature a SIMD vector processing engine along the lines of Intel's SSE 2 and PowerPC's AltiVec. It will feature 8MB of embedded memory clocked to 333MHz and operating at 1.2V. The memory bandwidth is quoted as 2.6GBps.
A second MIPS R4000 core will be used as the basis for the PSP's media engine, with 2MB of embedded DRAM, and again fabbed at 90nm.
Alongside these two chips will sit two dedicated graphics processors, one for high-level graphics manipulation, the other for the raw pixel shunting. This second core contains 2MB of embedded video memory operating across a 256-bit 5.3GBps bus. It can deliver a fill rate of 664 million pixels per second in 24-bit colour and churn out 33 million polygons per second with transform and lighting effects.
The PSP will feature Dolby 7.1 multi-channel audio, with 3D sound. It will support MP3, AAC and Sony's own ATRAC3 sound formats. It uses AVC (H.264) and MPEG4 for video. The machine's UMD media can hold up to two hours' of DVD-quality video or four hours 'standard' quality, whatever that is. Either way, movies are displayed on the unit's 4.5in 16:9 widescreen ratio 480 x 272-pixel LCD, seen here.
One of the key features of the PSP is 802.11b wireless networking for multi-player gaming. However, speaking at a news conference yesterday, Kutaragi said Sony will at some point add phone facilities, bringing the device even more into line with Nokia's console-cum-phone N-Gage.
Kutaragi also said that PSP will not be a single device, but a range of machines targeting different users. He also stressed that the handheld's design has yet to be finalised. ®
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BlackBauer24
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Thanks for the info m8, but i think this has been mentioned on esato before, still very interesting news to hear though.
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vinnieza
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thanx 4 that, first time i've herd of that, i love the PS2 (and playstation) and and they're both made by Sony  , so it wont be that much of a rival.
Edit: when he hinted that it might have mobile technology are you sure he ment using it as a phone he may of ment haveing bluetooth
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jack00
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i don't see it as an rival to sony ericsson mobile phones - read it again
the psp is a kind of plattform > so it can also be a sony ericsson phone, a sony multimedia device or just a gameboy > i think that it is a great idea from sony > this will kick nokias/nintendos ass |
ShibbyLicious
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@ vinniezaa
nah bluetooth is already on the spec list so i dont fink its that
@jack000
from the text it is plausible that the psp will be a mobile device in the true sense of the word. it can be your mabile gaming console, mobile dvd player, mobile internet browser and a mobile phone.
this concept would be very sony-esque clever and would be good money maker for sony, if the initial price is right
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Leks
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Hope it will be called Sony Ericsson PSP (not Sony PSP) 
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Scally_cadet
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Wow wow wow wow!!! How Kewl does the PSP look? And to think I was nearly sucked in by the N-Gage!!! Once again Sony shows it designs the best looking kit yet again!!! Maybe the phone part will be a SE product with the main part a Sony product? And who ever wanted wi-fi in their phone, next year looks like they'll get their wish!!!
Also found this about the price on the Playstation offical site.
PSP Price "Comparable" To Game Boy Advance?
By D. F. Smith July 03, 2003
Chris Deering, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, continued to drop hints about Sony's future hardware plans in an interview with French business newspaper Les Echos.
When asked about the company's plans for the PSP handheld, he reiterated Sony's plans for a release in late 2004, and confirmed that it would support playback of music and movies using its Universal Media Disc format. He also commented on the price of the system, stating that the PSP's price would be "comparable" to that of the Game Boy Advance.
We'll have more updates as long as Sony remains unable to keep its European arm silent.
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Johnex
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It would be book he they could get together with re and make a hand that gives a 3d view of a path that can drive the car-100! That would be sweet.
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parsnip
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That is very old psp news the concept design has been around 4 ages and the prototype is out. the psp is released on the 12 of december in japan
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Wazuki
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I think that psp does not have bluetooth. And i think it will be used as phone only through wifi- japan already have a phone that could call through it extremly cheap. I think it was 0.05 cents per 3 minutes to any japanese number.
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Vipera ammodytes
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PS kill brick ngage:-):-):-)
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skaroger867
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im confused about this thread...can it be used to call? or are they not yet to that point? that would be awesome if it could...it would just be missing a mpix camera then. just imagine how much ass that would kick if it did. n gage would be almost obsolute then. but im over exagerating a bit...lol |
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