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With all the recent chatter over the alleged PlayStation phone (which seems a lot more real after Bert Nordberg’s teasing) you might have easily overlooked arguably the most important question: when?

We’ve seen leaked pictures and heard Sony Ericsson’s President dropping hints, but all we have is a vague idea that it might, just might, be announced late this year and more likely early next year. Well a picture of a press invitation sent out by the head of Sony Ericsson in France suggests that day could in fact be 9th December.

The translated text reads:

Pierre Perron and his team invite you to the most anticipated presentation of the past 10 years… Thursday, December 9th, at 8pm

If the invitation proves to be authentic it would mean we are just two weeks away from the first official unveiling of the device. Note that on the invitation they have included the familiar four PlayStation buttons alongside a button depictng a phone. Hardly concrete proof of an impending PlayStation phone announcement I grant you, but it adds yet more fuel to the fire.

[via DroidDog]

Bert Nordberg, Sony Ericsson’s CEO and also apparently a bit of a tease, has been dropping some hints about the leaked PlayStation phone.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Mr Nordberg made the following comment:

There’s a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere

That’s certainly a loaded comment! Was he speaking about the PlayStation phone? Anzu perhaps? Something else entirely?

Well later in the same interview he was asked why Sony Ericsson hadn’t produced a PlayStation phone yet. Mr Nordberg’s response:

I haven’t dug into that history, but the future might be brighter.

That sounds more promising. If that wasn’t enough to get the PlayStation phon rumour mill swinging again he dropped in another hint, saying that he wanted to make a lot of ‘noise’ at MWC in february with a new product. Again this could be Anzu he was talking about, but equally it could be the PlayStation device. As if to underline that very possibility he added: “Sony is of course a very strong brand, and why shouldn’t we use that?”

[via WSJ]