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hey guys and welcome to this week's episode of v3 live so today we're going to be talking about the playstation phone now if you've read either tech blogs or news or anything like that you'll know that a lot has been said recently about the new upcoming PlayStation phone and of course it's like a little back however recently we've actually had some video of it some actual hands-on of it and it does look pretty good however there are a few things that I think I'd like to talk about that I think that it could be pretty interesting to you guys because a lot of people was thinking it's gonna be a Playstation phone one I think that's stretching it just a little bit but we'll get into that in just a second I'm so over it of course Sony Ericsson the mobile division of Sony who makes cell phones and smart phones and a lot kind of stuff will be making this PlayStation phone now they generally aren't well they make pretty decent phones a lot of the times the phones aren't you know the best you know a lot of times you they're a little outdated the firmware updates like examples some of them are just now I'm getting the old 2.1 version of Android so it kind of tells you that they're a little bit behind the curve but it's not really to say anything about this upcoming phone so the code name is the Sony Ericsson z1 also nominee a Playstation phone but some of the really interesting things about it is that it seems like a normal Android phone on the surface you know you have a nice screen about four inches or so Gio is pretty nice however it does have slide-out do not ski board rather but an actual button so it's somewhat similar to an over large PSP go now the really the cool thing about this that I like is that it's actually going to have all the physical buttons that you would need now if anyone has ever played a game on an iPhone or an Android phone or even a Windows Windows Phone could attest to the fact that touchscreen controls for some games such as you know Angry Birds and stuff like that it works fine however a lot of more in-depth games such as first-person shooters anything that you wouldn't need to touch the screen use and maybe I can log sticks it's just not fun it's just it's just it's just not any good at all so that fact they're actually going to add physical buttons shoulder buttons a d-pad all the kind of good stuff that you expect although maybe the analog sticks but we'll get minute it's going to be a huge huge help I think it would be so much nicer because that's one of the major things in my opinion that's really helping you know people why people still buying PSPs and DSS I'm buying staying alone game consoles it's just because they actually have physical buttons and actually have games that are while they're obviously going to be more expensive you know if you buy a mad nor something for the PSP it's gonna be more expensive than mad for the iPhone whoever you're generally going to get a better quality experience with physical buttons and your better controls and sometimes better gameplay that that's not always the case however that is a major part of it so I think that Sony Ericsson has a really really great opportunity with this phone I think with the physical control and with a standalone marketplace so a lot of people have said that you know that there's going to be maybe like a PlayStation Network sort of interface maybe they might be an add-on to the standard Android Market now personally I don't know how they're going to do it but it doesn't matter so much as long as it's actually being done so obviously they're going to have a lot of games simply for these PlayStation phone I would expect a lot of the ports from you know other consoles such as Brett's the DES and the PSP but more than likely mostly from Android and especially from the iPhone now this also should run because it's obvious got a touchscreen and should have accelerometer all the things you expect it should run standard Android games as well however the really meat and potatoes of this is going to be these specific PlayStation games that are made for it so because the developers cash to go ahead and make their games for the physical controls and know that they're gonna run very nicely on this single piece of hardware not you know 50 different Android phones that were developing for one piece of hardware then the game should be a lot higher quality perhaps bit more expensive however I do think it will be worth it but in addition to that they also hopefully we'll also have PlayStation 1 games and this is not confirmed this is just what a lot of people are speculating about that whatever it would definitely make sense in my opinion if they went ahead and poured it over sub PlayStation 1 games now they obviously you already do this on the PlayStation 3 over I think will be great to go ahead and be able to play you know grinch for this mo and you know all the great great PlayStation 1 games on your phone with actual real controls so that's one really cool thing I think the between the standard Android games should be able to play hopefully PlayStation 1 perhaps PSP although I don't 100% know if they're actually going to go ahead and allow you to download some PSP games even if they do I think they'll under the lesson from the PSP go as far as new making me charge you know the full price for a download game that takes forever there's a lot of problems with PSP go and that I'm sure that you I should be able to play PSP games on it however I do think that you will be able to play some decent games and of course all the standard Android ones as well now that's of course not even to mention the major part of it which is it is going to be a foam so everything if you've ever had an Android phone everything you do with that you're still going to be able to do make phone calls browse the web check your email play apps that are other than games so it really should be a fantastic overall device now one of my major problems with it is going to be the price and they of course the availability but most of the privacy now some people have been kind of speculating there might be a little bit more expensive there you know because if especially if they put PlayStation branding on it so instead is calling it you know the Sony Ericsson's the one actually called the Sony PlayStation phone like they put the PlayStation branding on there then I would expect that they would rise the price because obviously you look at it and go well why would I buy this phone I can buy out PlayStation phone and you don't get gains and all that kind of stuff so if they really need to be careful in my opinion of not over pricing the phone if they you know they do they put it way above what you might find another Android or an iPhone 4 I think they could run into some trouble whatever as long as they pay attention they're not going to go crazy they keep it at a reasonable price and they do release you know my fair few carriers you know I'm someone I'm one carry whatever that also could hurt but as long as I do it right and you know keep a decent price and keep it on a fair few carriers I think you could do very well okay so for the second segment of d3 live we I'll be taking live questions from everyone so of course as always with every episode of d3 live it's all filmed in front blogtv and we have a lot of people in here today someone just answer some questions do I think the CPU will be higher than 1 gigahertz that's a good question um we've heard I've heard some conflicting reports some people say they're just going to be a standard Snapdragon processor which is what you would find in several other phones the HTC EVO however some other people will say that suggested that there might be a more powerful processor they'll be able to crunch faster and better-looking games personally I don't know I'm kind of in the middle I wouldn't be surprised if it goes either way I definitely could see them you know cheeping out a little bit and the Snapdragon processor is still pretty good it is a 1 gigahertz processor really quite fast and what for a would be surprised as I said it's been a little bit more money and get something that's actually capable of even better graphics with it the PSB 2 will have Android that is such a great question um I really have been back and forth about this for a while ever since we've started hearing about it and especially with the PlayStation phone I think it would definitely make sense well the PSP the standard interface in the operating system on the original PSP there's nothing wrong with that I definitely do like the look of it and everything however if they were able to just make that like a skin on top of Android I think there'll be the best of both worlds I think juvie I have actually able on your PSP go ahead and download apps although some stuff would be fantastic whether they're going to do that or maybe they might just do something different and just add app support to the standard operating system I don't know but if it does write Android I would be very very happy how much will the playstation phone be and when will it come out as far as the price I talked about this a little bit earlier I don't know hopefully about what you would buy a standard smartphone so in the u.s. on contract most of them are about $200 and whatever it might go a little over so it's kind of hard to say that I would expect it to be you know outrageously expensive or anything like that I'm as far as Wentz coming out a lot of people have been pointing towards February of next year seems to make sense because we've been seeing it a lot lately you know all kinds of leaks and screenshots on so it definitely doesn't make sense that an announcement an early state would be fairly soon do they think that will make two different versions one for the US and one of the rest of the world um possibly generally I would think not obviously every country has a slightly tweaked modeling out with this different language with the little small little differences and everything but overall I wouldn't be surprised that you just go ahead and just put out one standard one um though they might make one for GSM networks and one for sea ma I don't know about that but on the most part I would think it would be mostly the same no matter where you are PlayStation phone or iPhone 4 you know that's a that's a tough question um however by the time the playstation phone comes out I think it will be more of PlayStation 4 vs. iPhone 5 however while they're both smartphones while I both will be you know competing I think they're going to have slightly different focuses I think the iPhone 4 is a great general phone I think it's one of the best available right now and you know it does great for a lot of people and while obviously there are a lot of great games in the App Store I think the playstation phone will absolutely really capitalize on the gaming aspect you're going to not going to buy the playstation phone because it runs Android I'm gonna buy it because it looks nice you can buy it to play games and so if you're going to be that person who really wants to play games that PlayStation phone is absolutely the way you want to go want to go games are that important to you I really don't see any reason why you want buy that but the thumb belong to a single carrier I hope not it's absolutely possible we've seen all the time iPhone 4 actually is a great example all the iPhones have been loved to AT&T in the United States however I hope that HMG Volvo's Drive HTT but something Garrick someone go ahead and get for at least a couple of carriers maybe not every character everywhere that would be a little bit difficult to pull off but I would hope that they would at least get more than one carrier and of course I would really hope that they actually allow you to go ahead and buy an unlocked version which would be more expensive but if it especially because just a standard GSM or stand of CDMA if you collected by unlocked on that would be great as well well I by the PS phone possibly a little bit on the fence I'm really going to wait and see exactly what all it's about you know what a lot of what we've been hearing is true I think I probably will you know if actually has PlayStation 1 games you know the controls were all the kind of stuff that you might expect I probably will get it however there are a few questions that I'm still waiting for so it's kind of a little bit too early to say yeah I'm gonna go spend all kinds of money on this are the videos of it legit yeah I do think so we've seen pictures of it before we've seen leads people have talked about it now of course if you seen any of that on the internet you've seen that there are several videos of it available yeah I do believe that's legit it looks exactly what we've seen before everything matches up and it's pretty good-looking in its own right so yeah I definitely would believe that it is going to be legit how much would games cost that is a huge huge huge factor into it now of course they are going to be gem loadable gang sure it doesn't appear to have any sort of slot for a UMD or anything like that perhaps a memory card but if you will be downloadable games and I really think after PS that PlayStation with a and that's the PSP go it hasn't done that well because people like to actually know you have physical disks I think that it's good that somebody's really learned that they can't price the games too high you know it's one thing to go ahead and go download Angry Birds for a dollar or you spend a little bit of money to go ahead get in a game however for full feature titles and you know when they try to charge the same price as you would expect on you know anything else I just don't think that would fly I think that they've got actually prices low competitive with what you would find in the App Store or the Android Market I think that's going to be the real key to success probably $10 will be this cat on most gang that they go be the standard thing is that's not too expensive you know it's not going to be totally break the bank but it's also not going to be charging you full price for a game that you may or might not want who games be downloadable yeah like I just said I absolutely would expect that they would be downloadable I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't have a micro SD card slot for expansion however I would definitely expect that it just you know you just download it same way you would through the App Store or through the game Gordon market okay so that's it for this week's episode of d3 live so if you enjoyed feel free to subscribe I mean every week Saturday in fact at 3 o'clock Eastern Time I can go ahead and check out the video live I post a link so you can go ahead and watch it live chat hang out we always play games or invite people wouldn't wait for it and watch it later on YouTube