Because Linux OS's on the PS3 dont have access to the video card (Sony did this to protect from possible game pirating software). Therefore all video has to be processed from the cell. Now that may be possible (as of right now you cant even play 720p files i think), but seeing as MKV is pretty much the only container the PS3 doesn't support, and all the possible codecs are, there isn't much of a point in someone making a video player that can do this.
The phone has 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, which do the job reasonably well, though the Anna interface will likely leave something to be desired for many smartphone users.
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Because Linux OS's on the PS3 dont have access to the video card (Sony did this to protect from possible game pirating software). Therefore all video has to be processed from the cell. Now that may be possible (as of right now you cant even play 720p files i think), but seeing as MKV is pretty much the only container the PS3 doesn't support, and all the possible codecs are, there isn't much of a point in someone making a video player that can do this.