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It was just two days ago when the elusive PlayStation Phone popped up on a Hong Kong forum, and now it’s back again in full exposure thanks to Chinese website IT168. It’s now confirmed that said Xperia-branded device is powered by a Qualcomm Adreno 205 GPU, along with what’s likely to be a 1GHz Snapdragon QSD8255 as featured on the HTC Desire HD. Interestingly, Neocore is reporting an impressive 59.1fps benchmark, which is a huge improvement from our exclusive look back in early December. Quadrant also reports a high score of 1,733, but hey, there’s no saying that this is the final build, so the graphics performance may get even better.

Other tidbits found in the latest leak include the generous battery capacity of 1,500mAh, the 854 x 480 resolution on a 4-inch LCD, a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash sans 720p video recording (although it’s probably just that the leaksters didn’t look in all the submenu in the camera app), 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM, a microSD slot, SIM slot, micro-USB, and a second mic on the back for active noise cancellation à la Nexus One. Interestingly, the still-empty game launcher app is now called “PlayStation Pocket.” We’re still unclear just what the app will run; will it be PSOne games (the company has written an emulator before), PSP games, or an entirely new lineup? (In contrast, the PSP Go has a 333MHz processor, 64MB RAM, and a 3.8-inch 480 x 272 display — albeit on different, not-quite-comparable architecture.) Hopefully we’ll know soon enough, eh Kaz? Anyhow, you can peruse some pictures and videos below, and definitely check out IT168 for the full skinny on this (somewhat tick) device.

So there’s this guy, and he’s on the internet. He has a Playstation phone, and he runs it in front of a camera, but he’s got no games for it! You know what that means? It either means he really doesn’t like games or they just don’t really have any ready to even show this guy who seems to be the only person in the world to have this early version of the “Zeus Z1.” What you CAN see is that it’s running a version of Android which very much appears to be version 2.3 Gingerbread (it even says Gingerbread on the app version, wowie), and there IS definitely a Playstation icon.

You can also see that this Sony Ericsson device has a large S in a square in the center of the slide-out control pad and that the classic triangle – circle – x – square combination is on the right side buttons. It’s so pretty. The slider seems to slide ever-so-smoothly. The entire device does seem to be thicker than most similar devices, most of the size coming from the back, the top of which has two more large controller buttons (L and R) and what appears to be a volume toggle, and that big fat camera is sitting on the back as well. Watch both videos and get all pumped up – and note that there is no audio