The PlayStation Phone — Engadget

As we reported back in August, the device you see is headed into the market soon, likely boasting Android 3.0 (aka Gingerbread), along with a custom Sony Marketplace which will allow you to purchase and download games designed for the new platform. The device snapped up top (and in our gallery below) is sporting a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 (a chip similar to the one found in the G2, but 200MHz faster), 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and the screen is in the range of 3.7 to 4.1 inches. Looking almost identical to the mockup we hit you with this summer, the handset does indeed have a long touchpad in the center which is apparently multitouch, and you can see in the photos that it’s still bearing those familiar PlayStation shoulder buttons. For Sony buffs, you’ll be interested to know that there’s no Memory Stick slot here, but there is support for microSD cards.

so, yeah.  this is what i wanted out of the psp go.  a multi-touch trackpad ought to emulate dual joysticks very nicely (iphone gamers can attest on that front), and odds are good there’s a solid sony camera on the back.  if that’s a touchscreen i’d deffo buy this instead of a 7” android tablet.  android + xross media bar + katamari, pocket-size?  yeah, that’s a winning combination.

i’d say there’s a 75% chance that this is the psp2, or else there will be a 3g phone version and a wifi-only model for slightly cheaper (or likely, a bit more as it would be unsubsidized).

i’m not entirely sold on download only games, just because i don’t entirely trust the playstation cloud to still be offering current games twenty-five years from  now, and not everything i end up loving is going to be reissued over and over, you know?  basically i don’t want to be limited to what i can store on memory on the device, although i suppose this will deffo support 32gb micro-sd cards; if you can save games to multiple sd cards, maybe never mind.

still, that i can buy an original gameboy on ebay for nine dollars and it will twenty year old games flawlessly is an inarguably good thing.  the mini-cartridges for the ds are a good and compact solution that’s entirely future proofed as long as you have functional hardware, which, i can buy a portable snes from team homebrew, so yes.  maybe sony should just add a new memory stick variant for psp games alongside a micro-sd slot?