Engadget has obtained a photo of the Sony PlayStation Phone, sporting Android and a slide-out game pad. Sony Ericsson recently promised its customers a big surprise, and the PlayStation Phone could possibly be it.
Sony PlayStation Phone According to Engadget, the Sony PlayStation Phone will be powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor of the MSM8655 kind, the kind of chipset Apple is rumored to be using in the iPhone 5. Courtesy of this chipset's dual-mode support, there's a chance of seeing the Sony PlayStation Phone being picked up by CDMA carriers.
As far as graphics is concerned, the Sony PlayStation Phone will offer the Adreno 205 GPU, promising up to 41M triangles/sec and 245M 3D pixels/sec. The Sony PlayStation Phone should also sport a high-resolution multi-touch capacitive touchscreen, HDMI port, 3.5mm audio jack, 512MB RAM, and a built-in camera with 720p HD video recording.
Given the Sony PlayStation Phone may go head to head with the iPhone 5 as far as graphics power is concerned, and the fact that Sony Ericsson plans to offer a dedicated marketplace for gaming, it looks like both Apple and Microsoft may get a serious Android competitor in that regard at some point in 2011 (we doubt the Sony PlayStation Phone would be widely available until at least mid-2011).
