Rumour PlayStation Phone Come with Android

It's a big week for PlayStation Portable rumors. On Monday, we caught wind of the PSP2, which had reportedly been shown off to developers, backstage at the Tokyo Game Show, back in September. The rumor hit the wire the same day that Sony made a big price to the PSP Go--which has proven to be something of a disappointment since launch.

Last night, rumors about a PlayStation Phone resurfaced, thanks to an Engadget post, which featured several images of the mythical device. "It's hard to believe that what we're looking at is real," Engadget wrote, "but we assure you, the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you've long been waiting for."

The handset looks to be running some version of Google's Android OS--the site seems pretty certain that it will be running Gingerbread, the next major version of Android. The phone also reportedly comes stocked with Sony Marketplace, so users can buy and download games (which, I suppose, is sort of the whole point of having a PlayStation Phone).

Inside, the phone has a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 chip, 512MB of RAM, and 1GB of storage. The screen is around four inches or so.

The unit itself is still apparently pretty buggy, though Engadget seems to believe that it could hit stores as early as end of year.