Imagine if your Android cellphone could play PlayStation-like games. Now serve suppose which in place of the slide-out QWERTY keyboard, it had the slight-out game controller, finish with D-pad, buttons and an analog control-strip. What you have been imagining may already exist inside Sony Ericsson’s labs, as well as may be entrance to you as shortly as October of this year.

Engadget cites a “trusted source” inside Sony Ericsson as well as has a little surprisingly minute specs for a appurtenance (which is seen in Engadget’s own mockup on top of. The phone, that will look something similar to a cross between the Samsung Captivate as well as the PSP Go, will probably be powered by the 1-GHz Snapdragon processor, competition the far-reaching VGA-resolution shade of around 4 inches and possibly embody the 5-MP camera.

Sounds great, right? There will additionally, the rumor goes, be the dedicated territory of a already fragmented Android marketplace for a games, that will be allied in graphics extravagant to PSP games. The whole lot will be using upon the specially-skinned version of the arriving Android 3 (Gingerbread).

This is pretty most a PlayStation phone, as well as you don’t have to contend how prohibited that would be. If this is loyal, it could be the initial genuine phone-gaming opposition to a iPhone, and will likely suggest the very dissimilar style of diversion. The iPhone’s touch-screen is good for puzzlers and strategy games, but when you want to explosion through the platformer or only go out as well as shoot a little damn zombies, hardware controls have been where it’s at.

I’m unusually excited about this gossip, not slightest since it means that I could likely penetrate it to run emulators for old consoles and get into a little retro-games upon my phone.

Exclusive: Sony Ericsson to deliver Android 3.0 gaming height as well as PSP Go-like smartphone [Engadget]

Mock-Up image: Engadget