Sony is currently experimenting with a tablet-style PlayStation controller, which according to Slashgear would allow for “dynamic 3D motion control and virtual buttons for gaming and other purposes.” They’re even trying to patent it.

It looks like cool hardware, similar to the capabilities of the Wii U console, which was, of course, Nintendo’s answer to the tablet craze that Apple started back in 2010.

So far, so good. Want to take a guess, though, what Sony wants to call their iPad clone?

The SoPhone is such a good knockoff of the iPhone 4, it’s making headlines and TV news reports in Hong Kong. Check out this entertaining news segment where the reporter takes the fake to the streets to see if anyone can tell the difference (subtitled):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu1Xj6Ign30&feature=player_embedded

Thanks Chris! The Greatest Fake iPhone 4 Changes Everything Again (video)

When Steve Jobs himself was queried on the possibilities inherent in the seven inch tablet form factor, he replied that they were “dead on arrival” and declared them to be “tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with the iPad.”

Despite this, rumors have persisted that 2011 will see the introduction of a 7-inch iPad Mini… and now a famous Taiwanese celebrity and race car driver is claiming to own a prototype.