Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play preview surfaces, specs confirmed

07 January, 2011
Lately we are learning most of the Sony Ericsson phones specs through leaks, rather than with the official announcement. The XPERIA Play makes no exception as it made yet another public...

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  • Anonymous
  • t7J
  • 09 Jan 2011

why buy this when psp is cheaper and more powerful? (lol, i read the specs its midrange at best for an Android phone)

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    • xpspx
    • t7X
    • 09 Jan 2011

    yeah i noticed the screen too..
    It should be centered.
    The design is ok, but i also get the feeling its a little bit awkward when it is slide up.
    They should've just made the psp go a cellphone.
    Its much better looking, with the joystick to.

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      • Alessandro
      • BM$
      • 08 Jan 2011

      It's really ugly. One of the most ugly phones to date. For such an ambitious project it's a bad visit card.

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        • simon
        • iL}
        • 08 Jan 2011

        wouldnt need a playstation phone if there were many good games on android...the iphone has some great games and fantastic looking too why have we got to wait for this when my desire hd is supposed to be a power house and we get old iphone games like nova and combat arms which are now on version 2 on iphone...

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          • Anonymous
          • uNV
          • 08 Jan 2011

          they shouldve placed the screen a bit more to the left,shouldve centered it..why is it shifted more 2 the right hand side.
          I actually prefer the dark look.but the slider looks like a seperate part rather than a part of the phone..why is that?

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            • Anonymous
            • LxB
            • 08 Jan 2011

            Looks like a larger SE Vivaz

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              • Gamma Sharma
              • u1E
              • 08 Jan 2011

              Its weired, but he PSP Go looks much better than the Xperia Play. Why the fusion of the sliding keypad is not working for the phone in term of aesthetics. The plastic also looks cheap. Hope their is a white version too.

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                • Anonymous
                • uNV
                • 08 Jan 2011

                i actually thought he was joking about the galaxy specs 0_0

                n why would i buy a ps3 instead of a xplay??? They are totally different things.i dont think u can put your ps3 in your pocket or make a call with it !!! the whole point of a gaming phone is to have access to some good games on the move while not carrying 2 different gadgets
                yea the psp logo should mean something.i think sony will be porting playstation titles to android

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                  • Sesbass978
                  • Ix@
                  • 08 Jan 2011

                  So the battery will probably drain fast when playing games, similar to my vibrant I bet. This phone looks thick and heavy but thats the price I pay for which I guess I wouldn't mind.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • t7J
                    • 08 Jan 2011

                    battery life will be worse that the psp lol!

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                      • DaMan
                      • m}K
                      • 08 Jan 2011

                      Most PSP games are pretty bad, just get a PS3 if you want great games from Sony. GBA games on the other hand are amazing on the go and I'd love to play them on the Xperia Play. The GBA emulators for Android are great. And the PSX emulator I'm using right now is working just fine with most games, except for some sound stuttering in a few of them.
                      For gamers, this phone should be the no.1 choice.

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                        • Chocowii
                        • vpd
                        • 08 Jan 2011

                        Yah, I know. Maybe Sony will release PSP titles on XP. The Playstation logo (triangle, square, x,o) on the XP will sure mean something. I really, REALLY HOPE that it will play PSP games. The specs are promising.

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                          • HBB
                          • 08 Jan 2011

                          if thy are planing to sell psp go and psp games on the marker for this device people will go crazy about this device lets say thy will
                          sell millions of this device in the first week

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                            • Anonymous
                            • fq2
                            • 08 Jan 2011

                            [deleted post]from where did u know this information about galaxy si ?

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                              • Anonymous
                              • uNV
                              • 08 Jan 2011

                              i would love to play psp games in it.but i dont think it will b that easy making a emulator,even the psx emulator have some issues although its some 15y old system.it will need some xtrmly gud coding to run psp games.and still theres not even a proper psp emulator for pc...so i really doubt that

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                                • Chocowii
                                • vpd
                                • 08 Jan 2011

                                Here is the PSP Go specs
                                CPU: MIPS 333 MHz
                                Screen: 480 × 272 pixels with 16.8 million colours, 16:9 widescreen TFT LCD, 3.8 in (97 mm)
                                Memory: 64 MB (2000, 3000 and PSP Go)
                                Graphics: 166 MHz (Maximum). 111 MHz (Preset Default)
                                Fat: 2MB embedded eDRAM (Video Memory)
                                Slim: 4MB embedded eDRAM (Video Memory)
                                Flash Memory: 16GB

                                Heres what Xperia Play brings:
                                CPU: 1GHz Qualcomm CPU
                                Screen: 4.0 inch touch screen (854 x 480)
                                Memory: 512 MB
                                Graphics: Adreno 205 GPU ( 800MHz MSM7x30 or 1GHz MSM8x55)
                                Flash Memory: 32GB

                                Both gadgets have L-R buttons, and XP doesnt have the analog-thingy (what'd you call that?)

                                Final note: Note the Xperia brand at the bottom of the device and PlayStation brand at the bottom left of the device. Maybe Sony has tricks hidden on it's sleeves. Yes, you can play PSP games on Xperia Play, even if XP doesnt support PSP Games you will sure find decent emulators on the future. The specs can support it.

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                                  • Sinath cambodia
                                  • kUW
                                  • 08 Jan 2011

                                  Does it sale in january,2010? I was waiting for this phone for long time. It's my dream PSP phone! I love it so much because i love game. If it's phone with PSP game like this. Please hurry import it into cambodia soon! I'll buy it be mine,please my dream become true!

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                                    • ramin
                                    • nq3
                                    • 08 Jan 2011

                                    zorxd7753, 08 Jan 2011So basically the first phone made for gaming will not even ... morehave you seen xperia play bencmarks
                                    xperia play bencmark is higher than sgs-desire hd -nexus 1-and all other android phones in the world now
                                    and put this in your mind that xperia play in not final so expect more from final version!

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • Kx3
                                      • 08 Jan 2011

                                      Again, is it able to play PSP games?

                                      If yes, it will be my next phone as soon as it coming to my country.

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                                        • prithul
                                        • uNV
                                        • 08 Jan 2011

                                        also if its a software platform under android,they should make sure that the client cant be installed in other android devices...otherwise this will turn into a big disappointment