Apple’s done it and the rumor is that so will Google early next year. How about it: would you like to see a Sony PlayStation branded mobile phone or is your head now swimming with thoughts of the diabolically disastrous N-Gage?

According to the prestigious Financial Post newspaper Sony Ericsson is considering making a PlayStation phone to appeal to the gamer savvy market. The statement was said by the company’s outgoing president, Miles Flint, who added “We need to make sure that it is a credible phone, and be sure we are justified in putting that identity on it.”

Sony Ericsson is already manufacturing a Bravia mobile phone for the Japanese market allowing subway riders to watch TV while taking transit. While the technology isn’t quite there to reproduce a PlayStation experience on your headset quite yet it could be a reality in a year or two. And if you consider Sony’s push to deliver downloadable content to PS3 owners you begin to see how a potentially large and very lucrative new revenue stream could be theirs for the taking.

Financial Post