Before diving into this update about the Sony Android Playstation phone which has basically split the gaming world in half as to whether it is real or not, please remember that yesterday Sony was claiming the pictures Engadget posted were fake, not that the device was fake. The only people to claim the device doesn’t exist was Sony Ericsson.
At first this may not seem like it is Android gaming related until you remember that rumor has it that Sony Ericsson is apparently making a PSP Go-like phone using the Android OS. According to Engadget, Sony is considering using Android in more of their products although what exactly those products are is unknown but it’s a fair guess what it might be.
Ever wanted to build your own custom Android phone with all the options you want? Well there is a company that offers just such a service called Synapse where you can do just that, at least if you live in Germany. While the website is a major pain to get to as it rarely loads at all, it said nothing about international shipping the one time we did access it.
NAND flash chips in your phone keeping you waiting, sucking your battery dry? How about a 10,000 times speed increase and using “virtually zero” power in standby? Sharp and it’s new partner Elpida announced development on their Resistive Random Access Memory dubbed ReRAM that does exactly that.
So the rumored Droid Tegra 2 phone, or Droid T2 as it has been dubbed, has been confirmed by Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha at GDC 2011 Online (Austin, TX). This little tidbit of awesomeness was scored by Taylor over at Android and Me who happens to be attending the conference. With a Tegra 2 inside, this could be a true Android gaming phone.
Well here’s some shocking news coming from the xda-developers forums – according to what we have learned so far, the G2 will ‘repair’ itself when rebooted if you root it. While not completely gaming related, we do have a lot of ROM users who are into Android gaming, so think of this as a PSA.
Android gamers have a few options when it comes to controller peripherals which include the Game Gripper, Wiimote support app so you can use your Wiimote with your phone to play games and eventually Zeemote will support Android in the future (it got delayed for some reason so it doesn’t support Android right now). Soon we will also have the iControlPad.
Samsung has announced that they are reaching out to developers on the android market to improve existing applications to work with the higher resolution screen in their newest product, the Galaxy Tab. Samsung also say that soon the tablet will be receiving Android 3.0 Gingerbread which should be better suited to 3D gaming and have a more tablet friendly user interface.
Orion will include 1080p video decoding and encoding at 30 frames/second, support for 3 active displays, HDMI and GPS on chip. Orion is set to replace the processor codenamed Hummingbird in Galaxy S devices like the Vibrant, Captivate, Epic 4G and Fascinate. It will be sold to OEMs and be offered to select customers in the first half of 2011.
Qualcomm – creator of the snapdragon platform announces the next generation of their processors which include the newest mobile GPU, known as the Adreno 205 to compete with the Galaxy S devices. In the last year or so the processors in smartphones have become an important part of marketing the newest breed of ‘superphones’.
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