I call BS!

1. Battery
2. Cost
3. What would be the point on a screen so so so small?

I show people the 480p screen on my phone and they ask me...

WOW is that HD?

i hope sony is planning on holding off for a long while on this thing...considering everyone and their dog is going to get a 3DS.

@ Guntrol

What would be the point on a screen so small?? Pixel density. Go take a look at an iPhone 4's retina display and you'll see why this would be so incredible for the PSP2. However, I highly doubt it's true. MAYBE 720p, but theres almost no chance of 1080p reaching the handhelds yet. It would be absolutely incredible even with 720p, would blow anything else on the market outta the water.

Just thinking... this is unrealistic

Why would anyone wan't 1920x1080 on such a tiny screen? There's a size/pixel ratio, and it's the reason you don't see 20 inch monitors at 2560x1600. And it'll probably cost a lot to make the pixels that small.

So when you connect it to an HD display, it will display in high definition! Also, would make no sense to put out a PSP2 with no advantage over the original; the PSP can already display in 480p. What would be the point of an next-gen PSP that can't produce better graphics than the original?

Not saying I believe this is real!

The Zune HD among many other devices display 1080p just fine when connected to a HD display. Its not required for the screen on the device to do that. And I really don't think you need HD resolution on a small device in order to output better graphics. It'd be almost negligible at that size.

"So when you connect it to an HD display, it will display in high definition!"

That makes no sense. It depends on the hardware, so instead of wasting development on making a small 1080p screen, they would use it on making it powerful enough so it can run at 1080p when hooked up to a larger display.

That's like saying a laptop with a 1440x900 screen should have a higher resolution screen so it can hook up to a 1920x1200 monitor. Which won't make a difference, since it can connect to one no matter what. What it needs it the hardware to be able to support that resolution without slowing down.

At zireno, if I can find the article I will link you but there is a battery technology coming into consumer availability that is nearly 50% more efficient then litium ion batteries and they are just as compact.. You are just speculating, sony will get this right....

Edit: Ok I found an obscure link since the original site won't work.. It was originally from technologyreview.com but I can't get it to load... But here it is [ http://nextbigfuture.com/20...

It's built on litium ion technology but is reportedly 40% more efficient and the original tech review article claimed that sony, panasonic, samsung and a few others were on board to make it commercially ready by mid 2011-early2012.... Hmm psp2 launch? I'm thinking yes....

I couldn't open your link but I'm gonna take your word for it (since I'm to lazy to search for that info) but still, regardless of the specs of any device, the usage a consumer gives to a product always shows the bs behind them. For example, in the specs of my macbook pro it says that the battery lasts 10 hours, but the actual life according to my usage is around the 6 hr mark (or even less), I'm sure it can last 10 hours at minimum brightness, and doing simple tasks. Same would apply to the psp2 phone, I mean seriously you are going to be playing games on this thing, even with new battery tech, the life of the device will shorten a lot just playing games, on top of that add the functionality of a phone which means that you are going to have it on all the time, receiving and sending text messages, making phone calls, using the web browser, and all that fancy stuff smart phones do (I suppose it will be a smartphone because everyone is mentioning android as the os). Even if the new tech for this device is 40% more efficient, I can still put my money on the fact that it will not last 8 hours if you game on it.

But anything is possible and yes, I'm obviously speculating like everyone here, but if I'm proven wrong then that's fine because everyone would win right :)?

I know exactly where you are coming from but thats the beauty of smart phones and ever growing technology.. For example when I first got my iphone 3g it was eating battery like candy.. So I fiddled with the settings, turned auto brightness on, I always lock the screen when not in use, turned off unessential push notifications, and I keep it on my car charger when I'm driving and my battery life has quadrupled.. What I'm saying is that sony can (if they think about it) can have the device shut off non essential functions that run in the background while gaming, have an auto brightness setting, and when not gaming have that portion of the device in shutdown... Sony is really good at reducing the footprint of a device and keeping performance up... I honestly do believe that they will be able to get a more then satisfactory battery life out of the psp2.. But I guess we will all just have to wait and see...

"but what about movies? it could benefit right?"

That wouldn't justify the additional cost.

I believe leaked PSPhone and PSP2 are two separate devices

I agree with HOC here. A screen with that resolution would be a huge waste. At a small size even 720p could be a waste and pushing that many pixels would be detrimental to the device's performance.(since you wouldn't be able to see the individual pixels past a certain point) As an HD output though sure, the PSP2 could very well have a miniHDMI jack. The cost for a 1080p screen though would be better spent on better hardware and driving a 1080p screen would be waste of power in itself.

Red_Orange_Juice there made by different two branches of Sony if the previous picture of the psp phone is to believed.

I still think the PSP phone is Sony Ericsson way of getting a bigger pie of android market.

I agree here. Wouldn't make sense with the hugely additional costs to provide a feature that wouldn't be compleeeeetely unnecessary. You don't need 1080p on a mobile sized screen to experience brilliant resolution.

Agreed OrgangeCow. Putting a 1080p resolution screen on a handheld is overkill, and it would unnecessarily drive up the cost of the system.

If you consider the Ipod Touch/Iphone 4 a handheld which I do then your incorrect about the 480p part.

yeah but i saw on the internet that the resolution of the iphone is so high that if they tune it down a little bit some people wont even see the difference so i guess that mean it doesnt have to be that high

720p isn't unrealistic, we will likely see mobile phones pushing that kind of resolution within 12 months. I expect the PSP 2 to be 720p, with 1080p possible, but I think the cost is too high, both for the screen and the processing power to run it.

But one bonus of such high pixel density is that there is little or no need for anti-aliasing. Though I'm sure that doesn't makes up for the added power needed to render such high resolution images.

Thing is with the power it would need is that even the current consoles don't do 720p most of the times, let alone 1080p if they do push even 720p as native res they would need really power draining and strong hardware. A 720p screen is still realistic though if games render at a lower res and up-scale to that. *and use 720p for video and menu/hud and 2D elements. I really want to see how this pans out. I think a PSP2 announcement is sorta overdue.