Playview: Is this PSP2?

Sony Computer Entertainment has registered a very intriguing trademark for 'PlayView' in the US.

The first function mentioned in the file - pushed through in the US Patents and Trademarks Office - reads: 

'Portable electronic device for receiving and reading text and images and sound through wireless Internet access and for displaying electronically published materials, namely, books, journals, newspapers, magazines, multimedia presentations.'

So far, so e-Reader, right? Interesting, yes. But not exactly a threat to thevery-possibly-beautiful 3DS. But as we look closer, we also read that the TM covers:

* 'Computer game software recorded on optical discs'; 

*'Computer software for transmitting, sharing, receiving, downloading, displaying and transferring content, text, visual works, audio works, audiovisual works, literary works, data, files, documents and electronic works via video game machines and Hand-held games with liquid crystal displays';

* 'Video game machines with television for personal use'.

Curiously, it also encompasses: 'Retail store services in the field of electronic games, videos, electronic publications and music.'

So we could be looking at some kind of wide-reaching addition to PSN - or perhaps a new service that lets PlayStation owners download and read e-books?

Or maybe - just maybe - could this be the long-rumoured Sony Ericsson/PSP crossover?

Also covered by the TM: 'Information providing devices, namely, computer terminals with encrypting software for transmission of messages via the internet web site and e-mail communication' and 'telephone apparatus.'

Whatever the TM - filed on June 3 - covers, it at this stage it only really allows us to speculate on the product it relates to. The trademark's myriad descriptions don't exactly paint an exact picture of the device (if, indeed, Playview is a device).

But maybe that's the point. Maybe - just maybe, remember - 'PSP2' does everything. It's an e-reader, email provider, word processor, mobile phone and games machine in one.

Too good to be true? Consider that Sony Computer Entertainment of America trademarked this particular (as yet unused) tagline back on May 17, again in the US... 'It changes everything.'

So, The Sony Playview, then. What do you reckon?

E3, we need you now more than ever.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=250116

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Interesting.....

So what do you think could this be the PSP2? And we can see if it is its keeping the disc format or some form of physical media, adding phone functionality means they are making sure iphone doesn't beat it in features.

LEts see but the trademark:

It CHANGES Everything

Is like "It ONLY does Everything"

US Version of PlayTV...?

If the TM has only just been registered on the 3rd June, i don't think whatever it refers to would be unveiled at E3, it's too soon, it would still be in development stage and destroy PSP sales as they stand.

Appart from that, it sounds excellent, i would love something like that, as long as it has a touch screen and 2 CONTROL STICKS!

To me that sounds as if Sony is going after the IPad rather then the 3DS

But remember Nintendo has stated they see Apple as competition too, both devices will be goin after the i-phone/pad/pod

I hope its psp2 or psp phone, as I have been waiting for eother one depending on the features they will have

Sounds like a tablet/ereader/ipad to me. 

"Portable electronic device for receiving and reading text and images and sound through wireless Internet access and for displaying electronically published materials, namely, books, journals, newspapers, magazines, multimedia presentations."

This sounds like it will have Remote play - just like upcoming Vaio laptops are supposed to have. 

hehehe..

New Sony Gadgets Take Aim at Apple

MARCH 5, 2010

Threatened by Apple Inc.'s growing stable of portable devices, Sony Corp. is developing a new lineup of handheld products, including a smart phone capable of downloading and playing videogames, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Japanese electronics giant also is developing a portable device that shares characteristics of netbooks, electronic-book readers and handheld-game machines. The device is designed to compete against multifunction products such as Apple's coming iPad tablet, these people said.

Both the new smart phone and the multifunction device are expected to work with Sony's new online media platform, due to launch later this month in the U.S. as the company's answer to Apple's iTunes.

The new products are targeted for launch in 2010, although many details such as price and certain specifications have yet to be finalized, these people said.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703502804575101013088128250-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwNDEwNDQyWj.html

Let the Android Assimilation begin

Thats what I thought of when I first read this.  I am thinking it will be a Tablet PC running Android OS.   Hence the partnership with Google a while back.  Its starting to all make sense now.

DO-Not-Wanna-get-excited-yet........
But I expected them to go in a route simillar to this..the psp already can do so many things for a portable device....E3 is almost almost here