Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone may come to Orange or T-Mobile in April

Sony Ericsson will release its PlayStation phone at MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2011 in Barcelona next month, “guarantees” a gadget website called gayakuman.com.

Sony Ericsson had earlier said it has a special launch planned for MWC 2011. It now appears that the new PlayStation phone will be on Orange or T-Mobile this April. Related: New Xperia phones at MWC 2011
The company recently revealed Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, the latest Xperia phone. Xperia Arc has a Bravia imaging engine powering it. Amidst notions of a gaming device to compete with Windows Phone 7 devices, which run Xbox 360 Live, Sony Ericsson had planned to introduce a gaming phone with PlayStation built in.

Photo: Xperia Play

The Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone, which too is probably an addition to the company’s Xperia range, will be released one of these days. It has a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and Qualcomm Adreno 205 graphics processor, 4-inch touchscreen capable of a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels. The PlayStation phone will have a 512MB ROM, 512MB of RAM, a camera capable of recording 720p HD video, and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
Sony Ericsson’s PlayStation smartphone is said to have a 1500 mAh and has microSD and microUSB slots. According to pictures of the phone, it will be a sliding device with PlayStation controls and a joystick and touchpad. Android Gingerbread is near field communication capable, which means the new PlayStation Sony Ericsson smartphone will be able to read RFID tags and make mobile payments.
If it is released on T-Mobile, perhaps Xperia PlayStation Pocket will be LTE-enabled. High speed broadband at speeds such as the possible 21Mbps that fourth-generation (4G) technology offers, is particularly useful for online gaming. There’s no word yet on whether Sony Ericsson’s PlayStation phone will be LTE-enabled though, but since four major carriers have laid out LTE networks, it seems probably that Sony Ericsson would include LTE capability, same as it has in the Xperia Arc.
Like the Nexus One, the new PlayStation phone has an additional mic at the back of the phone for active noise cancellation. The PlayStation mobile app is to be called PlayStation Pocket just as Microsoft’s Xbox for mobiles is called Xbox Live.

The current PlayStation Pro Go portable gaming console has a 333MHz processor, 64MB RAM, 3.8-inch 480 x 272 pixel display – and runs on a very different system from a smartphone.