Android Gingerbread 2.3 was outed yesterday, running on the second generation Google phone, the Google Nexus S. Underneath the curved ergonomic screen (designed to fit better around your face) there’s a set of keypad controls within that sound suspiciously like they might be designed for mobile gaming, with a full controller, which brings to mind the Sony PSP phone…
Inside the Android Gingerbread 2.3 SDK there’s a set of new keycodes: start, select, R1, L1, R2, L2. Sounds like a controller doesn’t it? This is the first real sign that Android has been prepped to handle the slide out controller of the Sony PSP Phone, codenamed the Sony Ericsson Zeus Z1. It could just be part of a push on the part of Google to up gaming on Android phones, by adding extra possibilities for developers in Android Gingerbread 2.3.
