PSP phone mod is really exactly what we were waiting for

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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.

Despite fairly significant consumer demand for a legitimate PSP Phone, you?ve failed to deliver PSP-branded handset aimed at mobile gamers the world over. There have been patents, rumors, concepts, and fakes circulating the internets, but you still can?t seem to get a PSP Phone to market.

Filed under: Hacks , Sony PSP , Mobile In a striking departure from the initial blueprint , the world's first "PSP Phone" has killed two birds with one stone: Added a working phone feature ( Check! ) Got rid of that blasted UMD drive ( Check! ) im not sure which is more preposterous: Quadrupling the size of your cell phone (and in turn, clutching a PSP to your ear), or cutting a hole in your PSP.

Check out this ridiculous PSPhone mod. Forget all of the banter about the iPhone rulling portable gaming. The PSP will continue to lead the way