Heh, weird Firefox won't let me reply to people. It just jumps to the top of the page. Anyways... while I see the potential of gaming on cell phones I'm still unconvinced that it is all that great. I guess I haven't yet seen a cell phone that handles games anywhere as well as my DS or PSP.
@Xeno wishes there was a preview button: it happens in IE as well. i got stuck for a week like that and it just appears to "fix" itself. i can't tell you what i did, but i came back to work one day and voila.
Eh SE has the same problem Nokia does. The sad fact is in the US you have to play the game the carriers want you too.
I don't like it, you don't like it, apparently SE and Nokia don't like it but they at least need to realize from a business POV they've got to work a little harder at getting some of their A-list phones actually on a carrier.
Basically it doesn't matter if they do make one. It will be over a year from when we first hear about to when we actually see it, it won't be available from a carrier, and SE will charge way to much from it in the few places you can actually find it.
@tande04: Ugh, A-freakin'-men. If T-Mo had the SE's I liked, I probably would've gotten one from them instead of sifting through ebay for deals on them, and even then, the prices are outrageous for the most part.
it would have to be something like the iPhone in the sense that it sees continued support. the one thing i like about it (don't have one) is that it isn't pushed out and then immediately forgotten about. the iPhone is apple's baby and it isn't treated like a disposable camera like we see with samsung, sanyo, motorola, etc with the bajillion different phones. i imagine sony would go the same route as apple, but i don't think enough 8 year olds have phones to drive the business.
So basically, it's going to take its remaining popular brand name and drive it into dilution by strapping it to completely irrelevant products. Yep, surprised it didn't happen sooner.
Considering that the Moto ROKR went over about as well as donkey punching the Pope. Considering that Apple risked ruining the iTunes brand on a Moto handset that (SURPRISE) did not work as advertised, I don't blame Sony for being gun shy.
Prestigious brand? The PSP, while moderately popular, suffers from numerous shortcomings, not the least of which is Sony's complete and utter lack of faith in their consumers.
The PSP could have been the de facto PMP/Portable Gaming System, had Sony been a little more flexible with storage options and customization, and had they not been so damned insistent on the utter failure that is UMD.
Sony has a marginal track-record, at best, with portable devices. They can't rest on their 80s Walkman laurels forever. Few would argue that the Playstation console is a great thing, but that doesn't make the name a "prestigious brand" when their very own PSP is doing naught but collecting dust on the shelves of so many. Making it a remote control for the PS3 is "neat" but certainly not what people were praying for when they bought one years ago. "Gee,I hope some day in the glorious future, I can use this tiny portable gaming system to do useless things with a next-gen Playstation console!"
Ericsson would be doing Sony a huge favor by incorporating PS branding into their phones. The cross pollination of phone with PSP/PMP and inter-platform coordination could possibly bring it up to speed.
I think Sony still has pipedreams of making the PSP a dominant mobile platform, but they've missed that boat by making it both too feature-costly, and also completely gimped. Much like building a 475hp hotrod kit car in one's basement, only to realize you can't get it outside now, then wincing as you see your friends buzzing around the neighborhood on lawnmower go-karts.
Sony's various divisions practically compete rather than collaborate with each other. Witness their video divisions, where high end prosumer models produced by their consumer division compete with low end models produced by their pro division. Sony is the USSR of electronics companies.
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I don't like it, you don't like it, apparently SE and Nokia don't like it but they at least need to realize from a business POV they've got to work a little harder at getting some of their A-list phones actually on a carrier.
Basically it doesn't matter if they do make one. It will be over a year from when we first hear about to when we actually see it, it won't be available from a carrier, and SE will charge way to much from it in the few places you can actually find it.
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The PSP could have been the de facto PMP/Portable Gaming System, had Sony been a little more flexible with storage options and customization, and had they not been so damned insistent on the utter failure that is UMD.
Sony has a marginal track-record, at best, with portable devices. They can't rest on their 80s Walkman laurels forever. Few would argue that the Playstation console is a great thing, but that doesn't make the name a "prestigious brand" when their very own PSP is doing naught but collecting dust on the shelves of so many. Making it a remote control for the PS3 is "neat" but certainly not what people were praying for when they bought one years ago. "Gee,I hope some day in the glorious future, I can use this tiny portable gaming system to do useless things with a next-gen Playstation console!"
Ericsson would be doing Sony a huge favor by incorporating PS branding into their phones. The cross pollination of phone with PSP/PMP and inter-platform coordination could possibly bring it up to speed.
I think Sony still has pipedreams of making the PSP a dominant mobile platform, but they've missed that boat by making it both too feature-costly, and also completely gimped. Much like building a 475hp hotrod kit car in one's basement, only to realize you can't get it outside now, then wincing as you see your friends buzzing around the neighborhood on lawnmower go-karts.
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