shanzhai PSP Phone dampens our excitement for an actual PSP Phone

[wraggster]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/03/100302-psphonekirf-03.jpg

When one thinks of a PSP Phone, they usually imagine a handset with a number of cool, gamer-centric features, such as some sort of integration with the PlayStation network or -- imagine! -- the ability to actually play PSP games. What they don't imagine -- correct us if we're wrong -- is some sort of KIRFy cellphone shoved inside what is essentially the shell of a PSP. That said, we do have to give our friends in Shenzhen some props: not only have they beat Sony with this knock-off, but with the way things are going, they might have the PSP Phone market all to themselves in perpetuity. No specifics on this one yet -- price, stats, or street date -- but you probably weren't going to buy one anyways.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/keepin-it-real-fake-part-cclviii-shanzhai-psp-phone-dampens-o/

[mike_jmg]

Knock off or whatever, it looks kinda cool
Imagine someone sees you on the street talking through something that looks like a PSP... they'd be like WTF??

:rofl:
I would definitely get one if this ever takes off

[symbal]

Be alright if they put the Dingoo or GP2X OS on one of these but it's probably gonna use the same system on chip and emulators as a thousand others, hopefully not though and at least it's a start.

[PLZKLLME0080]

Its probably gonna be a cheap piece of junk, if they are just sticking it in a PSP shell. They probably don't even have Sony's permission, making them produce only similar looking shells or taking off the PSP logo's.

[VampDude]

There have been PSP style phones (from Hong Kong) since at least 2006, many of which boast features such as full speed NES, SNES and Genesis emulation.

[HShin]

It isn't hard to figure out. What they'd do is smack a PSone emulator inside a WinMob phone, which is housed in a knockoff PSP shell. Why PSP shell? Beats me. But there are only so many Apple knockoffs that even the Chinese can tolerate, would be my best guess.