The Playstation Vita should just be a smartphone. Sony should pull out of handheld gaming.

[dharh]

superchunk said:

I don't understand part of your logic.

Yes the form factor would be smaller in width, same in depth, and larger in thickness. That's obvious but not a detraction in any way, IMO.

The battery/play time would be identical. The Vita has a 2200mAh battery and that is already a battery common in phones as either stock or optional. My Galaxy Nexus phone has a 1850mAh and an optional 2000mAh that barely affects its thickness. The Razr Maxx comes stock with a 3300mAh battery.

I think too many of you just don't know enough about mobile phones and their current tech. Vita will be outaded by smartphones by next year. (This comment is to a lot more posters in this thread that just the one I'm quoting.)

I think any thicker is too much. I can't wait to get my hands on the PSVita Light if it ever comes.

The battery itself may be the same, but the 3G model gets less battery time than the WiFi one. The problem is that playing games for more than 15-30 minutes at a time _and_ being a phone just isn't compatable atm. Until you can play a game for 4 hours _and_ still have charge to make a couple calls totalling 2 or 3 hours _and_ still get through the entire day (12-16 hours) without needing a charge it's just not going to work.

If SONY wants to try to make a PSVita Phone but still have the Normal PSVita, fine by me, but I won't touch the Phone with a 10 foot pole and I doubt most people would either.

For the record, I own HTC G2. The primary feature I use it for, aside from making calls, is its wi-fi hotspot capability. I have to be real careful with it though, I can only run it for a couple hours a day otherwise my phone will die before I get home.