Sony Computer Entertainment America’s senior marketing vice president has put an end to rumors of any possible release of the PlayStation mobile phone in 2010.

Speaking to the Seattle Times, Peter Dille simply stated that they are no plans to launch any mobile this year:

Does this talk about the PlayStation brand signal more products coming soon — maybe a new mobile device?

“No new mobile launches this year.”

The PlayStation Android OS based mobile phone was rumored to be due for an October release. Perhaps we will hear more from Sony before the end of the year about hopefully a 2011 release.

Just in – the Sony Ericsson Spiro, available on the Virgin network in a slightly funky shade of green, silver and lime green with a hint of sage actually.

Virgin Mobile are now offering the Spiro handset on their Pay As You Go tariff at a price of £59.99 which includes £10 worth of airtime making the handset cost effectively £49.99. The handset itself, also known as the W100i, is a Walkman phone, great for music fans and is silver with a green trim and with the slide out keypad being green in colour. The back of this particular Spiro is also green, a sage/pea green.

September 9th is the 15th anniversary of the North American Playstation console launch and we wish the original PlayStation a very happy birthday!

Since the PlayStation was launched the brand has grown and grown and has sold almost 377 million consoles (which includes the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3) and 2 billion software units since 1995.

It isn’t all that long since ‘hackers’ and certian parts of the PlayStation 3 community were rejoicing at the ability of devices such as PSFreedom, PSGroove, PSJailbreak to allow homebrew games from an external hard drive. Well, Sony have stepped in to dampen the spirits of those hoping for a PS3 that could eventually play their ‘back ups’ or pirated copies of games by releasing a firmware update for the PlayStation 3 that stops such devices in their tracks.

Exophase has confirmed that “all variants of the USB-hub emulating exploit (PSFreedom, PSGroove, PSJailbreak) are no longer functional”.

Research is showing that for a brief moment at least, Sony have taken the crown in Japan and have sold more Walkmans than Apple have sold iPods in the last month.

It might not seem like a big deal on the surface but, since 2001 when research company BCN began compiling their monthly sales stats, this is just the second time that Sony have come out on top (which lasted a week), with Apple and their iPod range outselling their competitors for the rest of the time. Last month the Sony Walkman held a 47.8% share of the market where as the iPod had 44%. Many expect this will all change when the new iPod models are released by Apple in Japan but, for the time being Sony can puff out it’s corporate feathers and celebrate it’s victory in the Japanese market.