Sony says that the operating system where the new PlayStation Vita handheld runs, is flexible enough to also be used on tablets and smartphones. Concrete plans for this, the Japanese company, however, has not.
Kaz Hirai, the newly minted director and president of Sony Corporation, during a session of questions with Japanese journalists indicated that the PlayStation Vita OS has far more potential than gaming alone. He gained acclaim from Yoshio Matsumoto, vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment, claiming that the operating system is written for the ARM architecture and thus the necessary benefits for the company, writes Electronista.
By the choice of ARM in the development of the Vita is for Sony to the Vita OS and the corresponding LiveArea-touchinterface to porting it to smartphones and tablets, which often are also ARM chips to run. Concrete products on the basis of the Vita OS, however, were not yet given, “but it is designed with expansion in mind,” says Matsumoto.
Sony has so far on his recent smartphones and Android tablets used. The company has, however, a part of Ericsson from the joint venture Sony Ericsson, Sony Ericsson acquired, which Sony has indicated that its services more closely wants to integrate with its hardware. It is therefore not inconceivable that the company in addition to his activities with the Android platform, also wants to experiment with tablets, smartphones and other electronics on the basis of the Vita OS to build on. It would be a private and wide platform that can be deployed in hands can get it, such as iOS of Apple, entirely at its own hand.