After patents surfaced from Sony Ericsson recently that hinted at a PlayStation Portable-like telephone, complete with swiveling screen and a PSP-comparable button layout, rumors swirled that Sony and British Telecom's deal to add mobile communication functions to the PSP would mean something more.

Is a PlayStation Portable Phone coming? Not so, says David Reeves, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. He told MCV that:

I haven't heard anything about it at all - and I would know. They wouldn't develop it without our knowledge.

Reeves reminds us that Sony Ericsson has Cybershot camera phone and Walkman music player phone combos in the works, but no PSP-branded version in the works. Too bad. It could've been the N-Gage of the twenty-first century. Michael McWhertor

Reeves: 'No PSP phone coming' [MCV]

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