What went wrong?

What went wrong?

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because mobile games are ass and its only good for emulators which normalfags exclusively use to play Pokemans
Wish they made another one

it was made too early, phone hardware was still quite meh in 2011. If they made one today it would probably be more successful

This.

This. I'd buy a new one Day 1.
>Powerful enough to run most android emus
>Root it to run any PS1 game through the Xperia games app or whatever it was
>SOTN on the bus in 2011

I'd have used it for way longer if the touch screen didn't die

>entire library of games bought for PSP
>can't use them because no disc drive
That's the main reason it didn't sell.

OP is the Xperia, not the PSPgo or whatever they named that abortion

So it is my mistake I apologize.

I just want a modern phone with vanilla android and physical qwerty

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You don't need to root it to run PPSSPP.

I want flip and slide phones to return. I am so sick of these generic slabs that all look the same, I miss when you could be in a group of friends and each one of you had a different looking phone. God I miss flip phones.

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I only use my smartphone for a music player, calling, texting, clover, and DS emulation

Based

>this is what the average boomer misses

nokia sure had some wacky ass designs, owned this and it was pretty good but funky as hell

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plus they had considerably longer battery life. my old slide phone could last a week on one charge.

I'd love for one to be successful too but I don't think phonefags are willing to pay actual game prices for their games after getting used to freemium and $.99 games. Would most likely end up like PSP where it'd be great for emulation but people weren't buying games for it.

>battery lasts a month
>no bloat
>small and slim
>all kinds of different models out in the wild instead of generic slab number two million and 50
Damn straight

Shit that is weird, looks like some fucking lightsaber or a terminators battery cell

Yeah I had a Motorolla clamshell and I barely had to charge that thing despite using it quite a bit in my college days.

Did you even have one? They were terrible. They got hot as hell after 10 minutes of use, you were forced to use gaudy shorthand in your texts or split up a single sentence into 2+ texts.

I’m still nostalgic for my phones weird plasticy smell it gave off when it got hot, though. I remember reading text guides for games with it, you only saw like 5 words at a time but I had gotten so used to it that it was no problem.

the series also had a flip phone and a normal one too, i remember them being marketed as a "fashionable phone" or some shit

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Good news, boys.

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Where are the physical buttons?

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Based. Looks fake but I hope it’s true. Sister lives in China and I wonder if I can get her to buy me an unlocked one.

>nut.jpeg

Those are just concept renders from that website, it probably won't look like that.

As long as it has physical buttons and modern hardware I’m interested.

What the fuck am I looking at

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I actually had one of these, had a great built in PS1 emulator. Remember rooting it and playing FFT and MML on it.

>wanting an objectively inferior device for no actual reason

Every fucker who complains about smart phones has their lives dramatically improved by owning one unless you're one of those retards who actually paid for an in vehicle GPS.

Thought that was the Go in the pic. I never knew they released another handheld.

Why not just make it like the Vita, but slimmer and with phone capabilities?

I can’t even use my gps without it draining my battery in 30 minutes.

Oh yes because my life will be significally improved with mobiles games and tinder for 5 mins before my battery needs charging.

Because you'd look like a dork using it as a phone.

Just plug the phone in to charge when you're in car.

I take it Chinese normie want to have the buttons slide away to fit flush in pockets and hide power level.

Does this actually do anything well enough to merit having one in [current year + 4], or is it just a curiosity to put on a shelf?

>What went wrong?
Reality went wrong.

Nothing was wrong with the device itself, Sony just stopped supporting it after a year for no reason, just like the Vita.

Lol you walked around with that?

Absolutely nothing, at least from the consumer's point of view.
This shit was great for running emulators and if it had one flaw is that the battery wasn't large enough to deal with more than 5 hours of constant PS1 emulation.
Also honestly the shoulder buttons could've been better, but it was still great. I beat so many retro games on this thing, from Ranger X and Magical Pop'n to 1CCs of Einhander and DoDonPachi, if a new version that can do PSP/DS reliably comes out I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
I almost cried when my ex threw my Xperia Play into the ocean in a bitchfit of rage. You served me well, bro
From Sony's side they were probably disappointed the thing was so easy to exploit which is why they won't make a new one, though, unless it's a grossly overpriced unit

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On release it was a generation behind spec-wise
I would kill for a modern version with modern specs, even if it kept the same form factor

the result of a creative department getting blasted

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Bro just don't input diagonal because the keypad doesn't register down/up and left/right at the same time, lmao.

you haven't seen shit

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I'm tempted to buy one again but the specs are really shit and it can barely emulate anything past OG GB
What? Literally worked on my machine bro

Step aside boys

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>here have a fucking camcorder on your phone

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That image has been floating around for about 10 years as a PSP2 render.

>normal fags
>emulators

Wong, they had smaller batteries than their monoblock counterparts because they needed to house flip mechanism and generally be thinner.

this was in the era of the flip camcorder, these shits sold like hotcakes

IT SPINZ

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Damn, I miss the time of whacky sliders and hacking your phone so much homebrew apps make it vastly surpass its capabilities.

if smartphones are all about the battery industry, then flip phones were all about the hinge industry

>missing blackberry

the blackberry was a piece of hot garbage to use, it was simply the best option at the time

I forgot this, my endgame phone before smartphone era.

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soul
where did everything go wrong bros

>benq-siemens

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June 29, 2007

>where did everything go wrong bros

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It was and I was referring to Siemens and later BenQ.
.elf apps and firmware patches brought them on par with early smartphones with proper multitasking.

>flashing side lights
>you could make your own covers
>even had a support for light painting messages and motion control gaming

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Japan's crazy flip phones stayed bottled up in Japan thanks to signal incompatibilities instead of normalizing phones as a convergence device a decade in advance of iThings.

It took until around 2014 for touchscreen phones to displace flip phones in Japan, and even now they still have a sizable minority audience.

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