Following Nokia’s direction to provide comprehensive mobile games through N-Gage is a design concept integrating a portable gaming console and mobile phone. In one of its patent applications there is a new concept called “handheld electronic device” characterized as:

a computer gaming console, input elements 121, 122 being provided for user input by the left hand of a user and input elements 123, 124 being provided for input by the right hand of user. The games are displayed on the display 110, but in other embodiments, the games can additionally or alternatively be provided for display on another electronic device associated with the device. In the present case, the device 100 also allows the user to make radiotelephone calls (e.g. using cellular telephone functionality), take pictures (camera on reverse of device 100 is not shown), and play recorded/streamed audio (e.g. music/speech etc).

This concept phone looks like a PlayStation Portable (PSP) and obviously optimized to improve mobile gaming experience. This might give Sony the reason to push the development of their PSPhone despite their incessant denial.

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