Review: Sony Ericsson Xperia playing with hands

HomeReviewsPhonesSmartphonesSony Ericsson Xperia Play Review: Mani OnPosted by Richard Wordsworth on Fri, February 25, 2011

Came the long awaited PlayStation phone. Presentation: the Xperia Play.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Build

Now that the hotly anticipated phone PlayStation made official, the generation is to be like the PSP go-a compact device with a slide out gamepad hidden underneath the screen. The controller will look familiar to PlayStation and PSP gamers, sports the d-pad four buttons on the left and the triangle logo, square, cross and circle buttons on the right. Instead of the analog sticks found on PlayStation controller, Sony Ericsson has gone with touch sensitive wheel to control the camera and movement in the game. Shoulder buttons are at the top of the game pad section of the phone, so obscured from view when the screen was slipped up. The disadvantage of this configuration is the inherent slide out chunkiness-do not call fat, but we couldn't call it svelte, either.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Android Play

Unlike the slew of phones that are creeping their way into the hands of consumers with Android 2.2, the Xperia is bang up-to-date Gingerbread 2.3 right out of the gate.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play screen

Obviously a game centered around the laptop, the screen is something of a big deal. Put the game pad of phone below the display screen real estate, leaving a blocked four inches of screen to play, which has a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels. According to Sony Ericsson can run games at 60 fps, but from our experience at MWC games that we played we left him skeptical of that figure. The screen of the game is exactly what you'd expect from modern smartphone-bright, responsive and with multi-touch.

Sony Ericsson Xperia camera Play

The Xperia comes packing a 5 .1MP camera with autofocus, image stabilization, flash and video recording mode.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play drums

Of course a killer issue for a handheld gaming device. Fortunately, the credits are from Sony Ericsson that the battery will last for more than five hours of play before needing a recharge, which is exactly the same as the latest PSP, PSP Go and enough wile away a piece of the long car journey. Once the good folks at Sony Ericsson pop one of us a number we'll let you know in real time.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play price

The handset Xperia Play is available for pre-order from a number of online retailers from between £ 500 gadget and £ 550. Assuming that the price does not fall on the launch, the question is: given the choice, would you rather have a HTC desire's (£ 420, amazon.co.uk) and a PSP-3000 (£ 130, also from amazon) or hybrid Xperia Play for the same price? £ 550, the Xperia is going to have excel in gameplay elements and corresponding phone a standalone devices to be worthy punt.

Date of launch of Sony Ericsson Xperia Play

You have not set the release date for the Xperia, with retailers offering it for pre-order by putting the issue on speculative various dates in March.

Pink Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc incoming

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc HomeNewsPink IncomingPosted by Devina Divecha Sun 27 Feb 2011

The United Kingdom is ready for an arc of Xperia rosa?

Female Fans of the upcoming Sony Ericsson Xperia arc have much to rejoice: there will be a pink version of the phone. For now, however, only in Japan.

NTT DoCoMo in Japan announced that when the arc Xperia lands on their banks, they will have also a model of "sakura pink. ' We translate for you as a bright pink, shocking and warm.

This exclusive version will be available in Japan on March 24, along with other colors.

Now we're not sure if the version of Sakura pink will land on the UK in April. Currently Blighty is seeing colors Blue night and Misty silver.

Orange, however, announced that in addition to these basic colors, they will have an exclusive black version of the phone.

Sony Ericsson Xperia arc is powered by Android, gingerbread with a slim profile that presents a 4.2-inch touchscreen. This is a 1 Ghz processor, an 8 megapixel camera and Bravia mobile functionality.

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Sony Ericsson Announces Xperia Play

After more losses, benchmark, voices and previews, Sony Ericsson has finally announced the Xperia, a mobile phone for the players, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In portrait mode, the device to Android 2.3 (codenamed Gingerbread) is typical smartphone with a 5MP camera, a 4 capacitive multitouch screen "(resolution of 480 x 854) and social networking features. In landscape mode, the slide keyboard reveals a digital d pad, two analog touch pad, two shoulder buttons and four PlayStation icons (circle, Cross, square and triangle). The first certified device like PlayStation Sony Ericsson is calling, is powered by a 1 Ghz Snapdragon processor, a Adreno 205 GPU and 512 MB of RAM.

Sony Ericsson has collaborated with publishers to bring the game Xperia titles like Need For Speed, Sims 3, Guitar Hero, Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell and a multiplayer version of the world, before FIFA 10 by EA Mobile. The company has also struck a deal with unity technologies to ensure a continuous stream of high quality 3D game. Pre-loaded application will enable users to download titles that have been optimized for PLAY Xperia recently played games, access, see information about the games you have downloaded.

The game Xperia measures 119 mm x 62 mm x 16 mm, weighs 175 grams and is available in black or white. It has 400 MB of internal storage, which is expandable up to 32 GB via microSD slot (an 8 GB memory card is included). Sony Ericsson has yet to announce pricing and details on the release date (although we know that it will launch on Verizon in the United States next month).

"Today is a very proud moment for Sony Ericsson as something truly revolutionary we bring to the market," Rikko Sakaguchi, Executive Vice President and Chief creation Officer of Sony Ericsson, said in a statement. "Live to our vision of communication, Xperia entertainment play always will change the way people think about smartphones and mobile gaming. The launch of the Xperia play would not have been possible without the close collaboration of Google and Sony Computer Entertainment. The commitment of so many industry leading game publishers further demonstrates that Xperia will deliver on the expectations play long-held by consumers the world over ".