Nov 22, 2010
PlayStation Phone to be Launched in Feb 2011?
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Sony Ericsson might eventually unveil the purported PlayStation Phone in February 2011 at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. Bert Nordberg, CEO for Sony Ericsson, candidly stated in an interview with The Wall Start Journal that he wants to make loads of "noise" with a new product at MWC and stated that there's no technological difficulty in launching a gaming-oriented phone.
Sony Ericsson's gaming-oriented phone has been unofficially being called the PlayStation Phone and images of the same were also leaked on the web. Nordberg in an interview said, "There's a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere. Sony has an extremely strong offering in the gaming market, and that's very interesting."
Obviously the PlayStation Phone running Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread or Android 3.0 HoneyComb would be shown off at the MWC conference. Nordberg pointed out that current generation smartphones with touchscreen aren't optimized for games. He was a bit cryptic and unclear on which platform he was pointing at exactly. According to him, the main challenge ahead of launching PlayStation Phone would be negotiating the right issues with the game publishers.
Finally, Nordberg added, "Sony is of course a very strong brand, and why shouldn't we use that? Gaming, including content, is a very interesting proposition."
We can expect to see the PlayStation Network Integration alongside the normal Android Market on the PlayStation Phone. Last week came in an interesting comment from Sony Ericsson France CEO Pierre Peron stated, "With Windows 7 we run the risk of standardising our smartphones. We would be obliged to compete only on design on price, which we want to avoid," as reported by Telecom Paper.
Will we get to see any Windows Phone 7 based Sony Ericsson phone at MWC? Probably not. Peron added that the company was still in talks with Microsoft about using WP7, but it prefers Android because Google's operating system allows it to introduce more product differentiation. Basically, Android lets Sony Ericsson place a custom User Interface layer over the OS while a tightly bound WP7 doesn't allow the same easily.
Sony Ericsson, as a brand, has no objections in going for a Windows Phone 7 based device. However, Sony Ericsson seems a bit less interested in WP7 phones due to Xbox LIVE integration that directly competes with Sony PlayStation Network.
PlayStation Phone running Android seems imminent but the real quest is to find out if Sony Ericsson would work on a Windows Phone 7 device or not. But before that we might get to see the Sony Xperia X12 'Anzu' handset that wasleaked on the web recently.
Sony Ericsson, as a brand, has no objections in going for a Windows Phone 7 based device. However, Sony Ericsson seems a bit less interested in WP7 phones due to Xbox LIVE integration that directly competes with Sony PlayStation Network.
PlayStation Phone running Android seems imminent but the real quest is to find out if Sony Ericsson would work on a Windows Phone 7 device or not. But before that we might get to see the Sony Xperia X12 'Anzu' handset that wasleaked on the web recently.
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