I think it would be great if they could perfect mobile phones' telephone features. Like allowing me to talk to people as if I was on the telephone.
THAT might impress me.
I might even get one then.

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When mobile phones start getting actual gaming controls (and actual good games, N-Gage LOL), call me and we'll talk. Till then, they're merely curiousities meant for spending a few minutes at a time, like Bejeweled on my phone.

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I have a Need for Speed Hot Pusuit game on my phone and it does blow my mind how they were able to do it. Looks better than a GBA title, with 3D models for cars and scenery, but it's pretty choppy. I don't like playing too long though, for fear of draining out the already crappy battery.

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There is no way a phone will be ever as good as a PSP. I speak from my professional job being in the telecom industry. Reason being? Power. You're using the battery of a phone on standby waiting for a call, and the transmitter chews up enough as it is. Then you're looking to mini-size the phone and have it play a 2.7 inch LCD? Along with transmitting voice calls to a base station that is probably at max about 1 km or so? Ick.

Give me a PSP any day of the week for gaming.

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The man is definitely talking out of his ass.

In order to have a display size, control scheme and optic drive, such a phone would have to be massive and have crappy runtime.

Until flash media is as cheap to produce as an optic disc for 1-2GB, you're looking at either scaled back content/graphics or needing BIG internal storage to download big games.

I already loathe gaming on my PPC-6700, and it's as capable a phone for gaming as you could want. What happens when you get a call? Yep, your game is interrupted.

Simple games are what the phones need to be about. Anything more and you're flying in the face of what a phone does.

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yah, speaking as a PSP and mobile nut,
I still have my ngageQD, only use it when I'm going somewhere where my psp could die (E.g. dangerous to electronics, beach etc)

my normal phone is a lot more powerful than the ngage, has a better screen too, but is awful to play games on.. much better at running apps, ok for browsing, email etc.. mainly communication-focussed efforts!

If SE had a hand in it, they could have easily chucked in a GSM chip and antenna to the PSP, but obviously they thought twice about it..

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The new Cingular Palm Treo 750(I am getting) it rumored to have a 600Mhz Proocessor an 128 RAM, MUCH better then PSP

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Hey look out , the PSP has 333 MHZ , but thats not the same what that crappy phone has . Also , the vidproc. is weaker , and it has one RAM card for al the functions . That phone is not that good . :(

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"Hey, Bill. Got a new phone there?"

"Yeah. It browses the web, plays back music and video, and I can play kick-ass games!"

"That's sweet. Can I borrow it?"

"It kills the battery's dying."

"I just need to make a call."

"Nah, the service blows."

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