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Rumors for the PSP2 and PlayStation Phone have been running wild as of late, though the PlayStation Phone is all but confirmed, considering we have seen it in plenty of pictures and videos. The PSP2, on the other hand, is still a mystery. We know of its existence from developer rumors and murmurs, but we have yet to see any official specs, pictures or video leaks from the device. One thing that is clear though is that this device is going to be powerful and beat all current handhelds and even home consoles.

How powerful? Try upping the Xbox 360 and having it fit in your pocket. The current PSP and PSPgo both feed from 64MB of RAM and a MIPS R4000 CPU clocked at up to 333 MHz. The Xbox 360 on the other hand is powered by 512MB of RAM. The PSP2? Try 1GB of RAM, which is also double what currently runs in the iPhone 4 which has been able to produce some amazing looking games. To help further push the power and battery efficiency of the unit, Sony is also not-so-shockingly ditching the UMD platform that the current PSP (not PSPgo) uses to offer games and media on. The device is set to appropriately feed instead from the PlayStation Network, much like the iPhone and iPod Touch feed from iTunes. By ditching the UMD, this not only means Sony can have more control over the look  and size of the device, but with no disc in the unit to spin around, this also means longer battery life for the user.