Which is still too thick for a cell phone. Remember that we're talking about a phoen here not a gaming platform?

It sounds like an Android smartphone that happens to play PSP games.  Meh.

I like the idea of a PlayStation Phone, but I'd want it to be a full successor to the PSP (PSP2), and I'd want it to have the PSN/XMB at its core, much like the PSP/PS3.  Any Android features I'd like to be secondary to PS functionality, and I'd want it to continue and improve upon the PSP's functionality and compatability with the PS3.

This just sounds like an X10 with buttons and a section on the Android Marketplace for PSP titles.  No PlayStation Store anymore?

It doesn't feel like a true PlayStation product.

I view this as Sony basically bowing out of the handheld gaming market. It's Google's platform now, Sony is just one amongst many competing hardware vendors.

What's to stop HTC from making an almost identical handset that runs all the same software?

this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuRDAaG9quQ

Read the effin article.

You're being way too narrow minded here.

With the new Sony/Google agreement I'm sure there will be a PSN app for android phones. Sony is very smart for creating this agreement as it takes their Playstation brand and greatly multiplies its potential market accross all current and future Android based devices which is quickly becoming a lot more than just phones.

So the PSN and other content that wouldn't be on the higher end home console could sell like crazy on the easier to distribute Android platform.

Also, you must consider that both Sony and Nintendo are not stupid. They realize the impact of the success of the iPhone and the subsequent rise of smartphone use in general on mobile gaming. Nintendo however, is not nor will ever be a distributer of cell phones, so they must focus on experiences and uniqueness that will still keep their handhelds very strong. However, Sony is a producer of all things electronic, so taking advantage of that cross platform capabilities is brilliant. Dropping the PSP line for a PSPhone line is by far the best long term move for Sony and packing that with an already fantastic OS (Android) is another brilliant move that will benefit a great number of their products from TVs, Bluray players, future Playstation devices, and of course phones.

This is the first time Sony has excited me. I almost feel like the headline should have Nintendo in it instead.

yea with former CEO of Apple now over @ sony, and Sony E happened to take the software stack for Playstation and ADDED to the Android OS..it's a wonder they have kept it quiet for this long..

How is this bad for Sony? They would still make money from the hardware they do produce as well as a potentially exponential growth in PSN and what woudl have been similar to 1st party titles on a PSP on all Android devices.

From a long term growth point of view for Sony's gaming division this is really smart and I would want this phone.

Not to mention, most other hardware vendors wouldn't want to build device with those gaming controls, especially if this device becomes available on all of the carriers.

Reading it throughly it does indeed sound like it will eb what I thought. " in place of the typical QWERTY keyboard" sounds absolutely terrible for a phone.

you know the virtual touch screen kb are very capable to type what you need with a screen that large it should do very well