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vaio on 01 July 2008

Sony Names Touch Screen Device After Phil Harrison

Can't be the same fella?

1 Jul 2008
Link to this: http://news.spong.com/article/15684

Sony is apparently working on touch screen devices with gaming firmly in mind. One such device, according to the EETimes site is named Phil Harrison.

According to the US Patent Office, a patent referenced to 20080150911, refers to a "A hand-held electronic device..."

The inventor is stated as Phil Harrison... can't be the same Phil as the one who has recently departed Sony for Infogrames/Atari? Can it?

"The device may comprise a case case having one or more major surfaces; a touch screen disposed on one of the major surfaces, the touch screen; a processor operably coupled to the touch screen; and one or more tactile pixels disposed proximate the touch screen."



Section of the USPO's page mentions, "22. The method of claim 19 wherein the user input to the touch screen corresponds to user input to a video game."

Section 23 refers to, "23. The method of claim 22 wherein the predetermined state reflects a change in state of the video game or one or more particular game events.

Also included in the patent are references to 'gesture' and 'tilt' as well as "other devices in communication with the hand-held device."

So, a new PSP with a touch screen, eh? Why not turn it into a phone as


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kingofwale on 01 July 2008

well, Good for Sony, Phil deserved it.

Maybe this will distract him a little with the Epic failure of a certain little game called "alone in the dark"?



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Shameless on 01 July 2008

They named it Phil Harrison?

What the hell?



Pete_Beast on 01 July 2008

touch device + focused on gaming = Nintendo DS/iPhone, no?

Anyways, Phil Harrison did alot for Sony's gaming division, glad they still keep him in mind.



famousringo on 01 July 2008

I'm sure it's a codename, but the engineers designing it must feel awkward discussing it.

"Yeah, I was up really late last night working on Phil Harrison. It's a tough project, but I'm really excited to be working on Phil Harrison."



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vaio on 01 July 2008
Soriku said:
Old.

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=0&id=31304

Sorry, didn´t find it when i did a search

 



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llewdebkram on 01 July 2008
vaio said:
Soriku said:
Old.

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=0&id=31304

Sorry, didn´t find it when i did a search

 

 

Yea, as if anyone goes to the trouble of searching for similar posts when they post a story!!

 



PapaSmurf5721 on 01 July 2008

hopefully not the real name.



                                     

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pichu_pichu on 01 July 2008

Maybe it would be called.. the phil ?
or ... the harrison ?



ChronotriggerJM on 01 July 2008

Awesome that they're keeping Phil in mind, horrible that it sounds like a DS -_-; I thought the dual screens idea was stupid and pointless, why have 2 screens when only one of them is touch sensitive? If they're going multi-screen they better make it have some point :x I'm definitely not liking the similarities to the DS >



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