Some images of an incoming device that will almost certainly shake up the mobile phone market, the long rumored PlayStation Phone, have leaked online. The device appearing in the below image, courtesy of the www.engadget.com web site, is supposed to be the PlayStation Phone - a device combining Sony Ericsson's phone technology with Sony's portable video game technology (PSP).





According to uncomfirmed information, the new device will be based on Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) OS, will allow users to purchase and download games, will be powered by a a 1GHz Qualcomm processor, it will have 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and a 3.7 to 4.1 inches touchscreen. These are way too much information for a rumored prototype device, don't you think?

The engadget web site is also extimating that the Playstation phone could still be headed for a 2010 release or 2011.

Sony Ericsson has filed a U.S. patent application for a mobile device with video game features in 2007. Since then, newspaper and blog reports have been speculating the release of a handheld gaming device with phone capabilities are emerging every now and then.