Playstation Phone "Zeus" Revealed

tekgoblin writes with this excerpt from Tekgoblin: "A video has surfaced on YouTube which shows the new Playstation Phone now called the Zeus. Rumors had surfaced that the phone would be announced on December 9th but with this leak the rumors have now been made fact. The phone is called the Sony Ericsson ZEUS (Playstation Phone). The demo video shows the phone running Android 2.3 codename Gingerbread. The video also shows the phone with the standard Playstation buttons along with a touch pad in the center. The controller for the phone is placed normally where a physical keyboard would be."

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So which platform gets abandoned?

[grapeape]

My guess is the original PSP will stay zombified as it has been since a year or so after launch. The go is still fairly new but I cant see Sony maintaining 2 different handheld non-compatable systems, but you know that Sony isn't going to put out an android device that isn't locked down and wouldn't go through them for content...greed is too strong with that one.

Re:Prices and locked down?

[hairyfeet]

Question: Why exactly would you WANT this? I mean really? All the OEMs have been "pulling an Apple" and trying to make the thinnest sliver of a battery known to man, and if this thing has even halfway decent graphics it WILL pull the juice, so why in the name of all that is good would you want the ability to make a call tied to whether or not you had been gaming?

I can just imagine the kinds of conversation owners that would have this will be having, stuff like "Sorry dear I didn't get that call about your mom being rushed to the hospital, but I was playing "Super Crash Bandicoot Bust a Nut 4" and totally ran the battery dead, sorry". I mean it isn't the smartest idea to tie a device you need and use every. single. day. and have its functionality depend on whether or not you played some shooter on lunch break.

So I'm sorry but I just don't get it. It would be different if they would put a big beefy battery on the thing so you could get a solid 12 hours of use out of it whether you gamed or not, but we all know that wouldn't make it sleek and sexy, so instead they'll put a little sliver battery that will be lucky to get 4 hours, and that is only if your game isn't any more graphic intensive than Tetris. Any heavier on the GPU and this thing will go through power like shit through a goose and who wants to spend their day either looking for a plug in or carrying a charger in your pocket just so you can make and receive phone calls? While this whole "convergence" thing is cool in theory, until we get some better battery tech or the OEMs admit that devices with a lot of functions need real batteries instead of iSlivers I just don't see the usefulness in it. Maybe you can enlighten me?