Sony's Android 3.0-Powered PlayStation Phone Leaks

From DailyTech: On Tuesday night images leaked of an incoming device that will almost certainly shake up the mobile phone market. That device is the long rumored PlayStation Phone.

The photos come from a reputable source -- Engadget -- which claims that they are 100 percent authentic. The site first reported on the device back in August, but at the time it seemed like an unsubstantiated rumor.

What is particularly surprising is that rather than go on its own into the mobile phone market, Sony is wisely choosing to saddle up with the market's hottest property -- Google's Android OS. Reportedly, the PlayStation Phone will be powered by Android 3.0 "Gingerbread".

The device will likely launch early in 2011 and may well be one of the first Android phones to support Google's much-anticipated upcoming OS overhaul.

The phone's hardware is being designed by Sony-Ericsson, a joint-venture between the Japanese Sony and Ericsson, a Swedish cell phone maker.

The screen is slotted to be between 3.7 and 4.1 inches (it's unclear whether a size has been selected yet). The phone will be powered by the 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 the second most powerful member of Qualcomm's "Scorpion" chip family. That chipset means that it will probably be paired with the Adreno 205 GPU, though it could well get a custom graphics processor, given its gaming focus.

The device will pack 512 MB of RAM, 1 GB of ROM, and a microSD expansion slot. Sony may alienate some its fans in forgoing support for its Memory Stick format, but this ultimately seems like a wise decision.

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