Flying in the face of Sony's ideas for its PlayStation Brand, Sony Ericsson's president has said that a PlayStation phone isn't an impossibility.

Speaking to the Financial Times, Hideki Komiyama said that a PlayStation phone "could happen".

Contrary to Komiyama's thoughts on the subject, Sony executives reportedly told Ericsson that the only way such a phone would find its way into the world was if Sony itself produced it. (In case that sounds confusing - Sony Ericsson is a joint venture from the two companies it gets its name from, not a Sony subsidiary).

Does this sound to anyone else like Komiyama's thrashing around for any possible way to save his suffering business? The company has suffered of late thanks in no small part to its failure to produce a smartphone that could compete with the iPhone.

SPOnG does, it must be said, like the sound of a Sony-built PlayStation phone...