usrevenge said:
JesseDeya said:
Aren't we forgetting something?
Your theory is all well and good until you factor in battery life. Sure, in theory Sony could develop a phone/vita in the form factor you want, and with the power you want (perhaps in a few years). Unfortunately the battery will only provide you about 3hrs of gaming before it - and your PHONE - are dead flat.
I like my phone to at least make it through the day without needing to be plugged in, thank you very much. If my Vita (or ipad) runs flat I don't really care, it's not going to bother me not gaming until I can charge it, but if my phone runs flat it's a major PITA!
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easily rectified with a power saving feature where at a certain percent it warns you that if you dont switch to a lower power mode you will only have X hours of phone battery.
and if you can charge with USB then most work/school locations can charge it up a bit.
i see what your saying, battery life is important for every hand held device.
laptops do the same thing to an extent, if you unplug a laptop it will go to a power saver mode, screen dims and processes more slowly,
all the vita has to say is
50% battery at this rate your vita will need recharged in 2 hours. then at like 5% say any more games will result in power failure until recharged.
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Easily rectified? I'm sorry, but simply telling me my phone is about to run out of juice doesn't do anything to rectify the problem of my phone being about to run out of juice.
People NEED phones that can last all day without requiring a charge. Remember when phones would last 6 days without needing a charge? Ok sure, they couldn't actually do anything other can call or text - which is why we now have smart phones - but ~18hrs is the absolute minimum your phone should be able to last under normal usage patterns.
If you put Vita like gaming into the phone, it'll be dead in hours. Unless people don't game on it of course, in which case what is the f'n point? As an example, by today's battery standards you could probably get 2 hours of gaming out a "Vita phone" and use 50% of the battery, but then the phone is barely going to last another 9 hours (of normal smartphone use) before it's dead.
Nope - I love the fact my Vita is for gaming and my iPhone is for everything else. When battery tech get's about 5x better, then I'll buy your mythical Vita Phone.
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