Rumours suggesting a PlayStation phone is on its way have reared their vaporous head again. This time, it's Sony Computer Entertainment's co-chief operating officer, Jim Ryan, who has Sony fans' hearts aflutter.

India's Economic Times quotes Ryan as saying, "The PlayStation is a proven success and so is Sony Ericsson. Convergence with the two arms working together is definitely plausible".

It's hardly concrete stuff, nor is it what you'd call confirmation that the PlayStation phone is on the way, but it does add weight to the possibility of such a device one day being launched.

Let's also be clear here - it has to be PlayStation Portable (PSP) phone or people will be getting shoulder strain.

Ryan goes on to say, "What has been done is finding a match between a camera and a mobile phone, and that has been done wherein the mobile phone features are not reasonably inhibited and the camera is also a reasonably competitive product. It is hugely intellectually seductive to have a console-oriented phone".

Economic Times goes on to report that Ryan believes that the phone would have to be super-imposed onto the console, rather than vice versa.

This isn't the first time Sony has commented on the possibility of a PlayStation phone, with Miles Flint, Sony Ericsson's president, having alluded to it in the past. Similarly, a patent has been filed for a PlayStation phone in the past, although patents are often filed for devices that never see the light of day.

It seems like the ideal time to launch a new mobile phone into the market as well - after all, there's nothing much else going on in mobile phone world, is there?

iPhone!

Bless you!

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^{Source: Economic Times}