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Sony Pondering Game/Phone Hybrid

Posted by Soulskill on from the too-little-too-late dept.

A report from a Japanese business publication says Sony is currently making plans to develop a cell phone with gaming capabilities in order to compete with the iPhone. "Sony plans to set up a project team as early as July to develop a new product that combines functions of its portable game player and Sony Ericsson's mobile phones, the Nikkei said." This comes shortly after news that the new PSP Go will be open to "non-gaming applications."

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  1. Re:That could be pretty cool by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it's hip on /. to hate Sony for their DRM and rootkits [...] But I like their consumer electronics

    When you make this statement, do you take into account Sony's utter failure to provide any official homebrew environment on the PSP or slim PS2? Even the Xbox 360 has XNA.

  2. It was a limited edition and sold out quickly. by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm guessing you don't remember Net Yaroze?

    It was a very limited edition and sold out quickly.

    Or the PS2 linux kit?

    It was a slightly less limited edition but still sold out quickly, and Sony never made a version for the slim PS2.

    The PS3, as you hopefully do know, is ready to have linux installed on it out-of-the-box.

    Granted, that was a nice gesture, but the article is about handhelds. Once Sony discontinued the Clié PDA in 2005, which handheld device made by Sony supports Linux or other homebrew methods? Do any of Sony Ericsson's phones count?