PSP phone mod is really exactly what we were waiting for

Call it off Sony, no need to throw any precious man hours into making your perennially #2 handheld into some sort of amazing featurephone hybrid, some hacker has already done it for you. Through the amazing wonders of modern thinphone technology, soldering irons and probably a bit of glue, some hacker has managed the slap a Haier touchscreen phone onto the back of his PSP -- killing the UMD drive in the process, but we'd say it was well worth it.

[Brent @ Aug 8th 2008 9:29AM]

Reminds me of Jemaine's camera phone from "Flight of the Conchords"...which was awesome.

[High Ranks make you sterile @ Aug 8th 2008 9:42AM]

At least Sony can now say people are using the space the UMD drive occupied, since mostly they weren't using the drive itself.

[Flashpoint @ Aug 8th 2008 10:01AM]

SONY's half assed design stupidity amaizes me.

You can't have good 3D gaming without 2 analog sticks and yet they re-released the PSP lite still with just one.

The UMD was good for its day, but with all the space they shaved off, they didn't consider adding FORCE FEEDBACK to the PSP with two simple motors from a cell phone.

Then they don't bother adding an SSD drive, they add a little more onboard memory and just continue about their way.

SONY must be intentionaly holding its products back.

[Flashpoint @ Aug 8th 2008 10:01AM]

SONY's half assed design stupidity amaizes me.

You can't have good 3D gaming without 2 analog sticks and yet they re-released the PSP lite still with just one.

The UMD was good for its day, but with all the space they shaved off, they didn't consider adding FORCE FEEDBACK to the PSP with two simple motors from a cell phone.

Then they don't bother adding an SSD drive, they add a little more onboard memory and just continue about their way.

SONY must be intentionaly holding its products back.

[Kamokazi @ Aug 8th 2008 10:32AM]

"You can't have good 3D gaming without 2 analog sticks..."

Or a mouse and a keyboard (or enough buttons to get the basics done).

[Steffen Jobbs @ Aug 8th 2008 10:48AM]

iPhone killer.........NOT! Just plain double-fugly.

[rv @ Aug 8th 2008 2:07PM]

No one with a large memory stick uses the umd drive Just put the isos off that and play off them. I cant remember the last time I used a umd.

[Telanis @ Aug 8th 2008 2:51PM]

That's Jemaine, not Jermaine.

[Brent @ Aug 8th 2008 7:12PM]

@Telanis

Yep, that's exactly how I spelled it.

[Metkis @ Aug 8th 2008 9:29AM]

This is completely ugly and undeniably non-functional, which is why it belongs on the internet.

[dennis @ Aug 8th 2008 9:36AM]

This is the best comment on the internet I've read in at least a week. I'm going to digg it up.

[nate @ Aug 8th 2008 9:54AM]

While arguable ugly I hardly think it deserves to be call non-functional. It's a phone! What more do you want?

[tyler @ Aug 8th 2008 9:33AM]

** runs back to the at&t store for a refund **

[bartoron @ Aug 8th 2008 9:34AM]

That's scary.

[deyanimay @ Aug 8th 2008 9:42AM]

This needs needs to be integrated into the psp not just slapped in the back.

[tekdroid @ Aug 9th 2008 5:34AM]

Disagree. Why does a gaming device need to have so much integration. What's next, integrated GPS for the 5% of the market that would 'find it nice', while leaving the 95% unable to afford the device and get a DS instead?

The portable gaming market doesn't need to be king of convergence. Phones do a great job of that, and yet they don't need to be kings of gaming, either... IMO 'cause the masses don't demand it and 'cause those that do can go buy a separate device that does that task far better and at a sane price-point will far less compromise (battery life, form-factor, usability, cost).

[JC @ Aug 8th 2008 9:45AM]

Holy crap, way to botch up the Read link. Are you guys seriously an Internet blog, or just a room full of monkeys typing random crap?

[Metkis @ Aug 8th 2008 9:53AM]

That IS a blog.

[Danny F. @ Aug 8th 2008 10:01AM]

Someone got their monthly visitor today -.- ..

[Rick @ Aug 8th 2008 10:03AM]

So are you saying an infinite amount of bloggers would eventually produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare?

[giuliop @ Aug 8th 2008 10:40AM]

@JC

I thought we all agreed it was the latter?

@Rick

Apparently not: http://www.arn.org/docs2/news/monkeysandtypewriters051103.htm

[halkonlar @ Aug 9th 2008 2:53PM]

Waaaay back, just a few years before his death, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. visited the University of Iowa. He referenced the idea that an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters would eventually produce the full works of Shakespeare. He closed that reference with something along the lines of "Well, the internet has proven that theory wrong."

So, as one monkey on a keyboard to another, thought you might appreciate that.

[noroom @ Aug 8th 2008 10:00AM]

Why is Engadget messing up so many Links lately?

[teej @ Aug 8th 2008 2:42PM]

if you look into the same reason that there are not nearly the same amount of articles per day from Engadget than there used to be, you may find yourself an answer.

[mrgrim @ Aug 8th 2008 10:06AM]

Because jc told you already.. There monkeys with type writers, what do expect from monkeys, besides smokin cigars and wearing golf visors.. I mean come on you want them to do such a complex task as posting a correct link. you cant make anybody happy these days...

[konshuss @ Aug 8th 2008 10:43AM]

waaaaa, i had to rearrange a couple of characters in the read link to get it to work, it must have taken at least an extra 6 seconds.. waaaa.
you douches have gotta take a closer look at yourselves, probably the types that whine and complain over any little thing in your daily lives and simply letting it extend to the internet...making a botched read link sound like the dr. left a scalpel inside his patient. tape on a dick and man up you wussies!

[giuliop @ Aug 9th 2008 5:02AM]

So, Mr. Swollen Head, what characters did you rearrange in "http:///"? Because you know, they obviously changed it later, and clearly with a wrong one too.
Flippin' idiot.

[Marvin Quach @ Aug 8th 2008 11:07AM]

Why are we bringing back a version of the N-Gage to life again?

[ishism @ Aug 9th 2008 12:19AM]

That sucks. I actually like my taco NGAGE deck. Only thing wrong with it is that it's MMC only

[mrgrim @ Aug 8th 2008 11:08AM]

@Konshuss

Ok so then your saying that if gm/ford build a car its perfectly fine to leave out pieces that are vital lets say the brakes for instance, and that its ok to have no brakes cuz we should just rearrange them with another part and that's how it should work...I think most of the bloggers that posted really don't care about how botched the link is, they are simply stating a point saying that if a tech news/blog site that's fairly popular cant post a link right then they are incompetent idiots a lot like your self.. Oh and anybody that comments about taping on a dick usually isn't a man at all, there usually what society calls a tranny or transvestite.. Are you a transvestite kon..

[iansarchibald @ Aug 8th 2008 12:11PM]

I know, every time these monkey-tards mess up a read link my brakes stop working and I, along with many other, die in a fiery car accident.

[jackola @ Aug 8th 2008 11:42AM]

Hey buddy, looks like you got some snot on your psp phone there.

[Magallanes @ Aug 8th 2008 12:17PM]

you can do the same utilizing a psp + cheap cellphone + duct tapes. In fact duct tapes is the solution of almost everything.

[Phoenix @ Aug 10th 2008 9:36AM]

duct tape and WD40 can fix everything. If it moves and it shouldn't, duct tape. if it doesn't move and it should, WD40.

[slowerpig81 @ Aug 8th 2008 1:07PM]

That looks like a pretty useful thing, and axing the UMD drive is fine, considering all of my friends that own a PSP use the Memory stick for everything (os, games, movies, music)

[xunling @ Aug 8th 2008 2:46PM]

i would really like to get the link

i want to do it myself!!!

*love*

[superaktieboy @ Aug 8th 2008 2:50PM]

OMG :O IPHONE KILLER :O OMGOMGOMG


:/

[Crooked Style @ Aug 8th 2008 8:25PM]

Iphone killer? the psp came first?
At least Sony can't delete our stuff remotely like some company.....

[ishism @ Aug 9th 2008 12:20AM]

I want to see that on the slim

[Nate DiDonato @ Aug 9th 2008 1:55AM]

n-gage bell grande?
audiostreet.net/deathsquadkills

there was mention of force feedback on a portable... hmm... where have I seen that before...

oh yeah... tapwave zodiac, the rumble cart on DS, ???

Sony? Are you listening?

[kolbsterdude12 @ Aug 9th 2008 2:31PM]

i think this is genius.if any of you idiotholes know what your actually talking about you would know that sony is releasing games for psp for download to the memory card and you can play the full thing, eliminating the need for a umd drive. this has to be one of the greatest hacks i've seen, besides the colt .45 wii mote.