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The editors liked
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play ships with Android 2.3 Gingerbread without a complicated overlay. It has a slide-out game pad that makes gameplay more immersive
And it comes preloaded with popular game titles like Crash Bandicoot and Asphalt 6. Features in
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play 4G integrates phone and gaming features like no other handset before it. It offers all the essential smartphone features
And call quality is respectable
Great gaming controls
Excellent speakers
Sony Ericsson UI overlay
Game controls are excellent
Surprisingly fast interface
Games can look great
Screen is sharp with good viewing angles
Great range of games. Excellent Xperia Games launcher. Smooth
Fast Android experience. Controller is well-designed. Decent battery life
It's a PlayStation phone!
One of the best stereo speakers on a mobile device
Runs the latest Google Android - 2.3 Gingerbread
The editors didn't like
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play's touch-screen gaming controls are not as responsive and precise as we would like
Photo quality is average at best
And it lacks an HDMI port and 4G LTE
Some of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play 4G's gaming controls are unresponsive. It lacks an HDMI-out port
Photo quality is poor
And data speeds are unimpressive
Unremarkable display
Questionable build quality
Limited internal memory
Selection of games is limited
Build quality is below par
Screen is a bit dull
Thick and heavy handset. Track pads on the controller need tweaking. 8GB microSD is small for a gaming phone. Flaky Wi-Fi. No HDMI port
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play ships with Android 2.3 Gingerbread without a complicated overlay. It has a slide-out game pad that makes gameplay more immersive, and it comes preloaded with popular game titles like Crash Bandicoot and Asphalt 6. Features in
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play's touch-screen gaming controls are not as responsive and precise as we would like, photo quality is average at best, and it lacks an HDMI port and 4G LTE
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is a significant step forward in mobile gaming, but it suffers from key hardware limitations.
The Xperia Play will appeal to mobile gamers who are sick of poor touchscreen controls, and are looking for a more fulfilling gaming experience on their phone. There are only a handful of games right now that are optimised for use with the gamepad, bu...
Overall the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play ranks in as a 'Good' smartphone. It's definitely pushing the boundaries between portable gaming devices and smartphones and really working towards a new market. There are some slight concerns, however, on th...
Abstract: If you’ve been keeping up with Android news and release dates, you would know that the release of the Sony Xperia Play for Verizon is fast approaching us (May 26th to be exact). While attending Google I/O last week I was actually one of the lucky few w...
Published: 2011-05-20, Author: Simon , review by: intomobile.com
Abstract: The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is launching on Verizon next week, bringing classic portable gaming to smartphones. I just got the Rogers model this afternoon, and it's been hard to stop my day from evaporating into a haze of video games. The Play, as you m...
I like the idea of a gaming phone I remember discussing it with the first Sony Ericsson CEO Miles Flint in 2006. Five years have passed and the market has changed a lot – now gaming shifts to regular phones and tablets. Their controls are optimized fo...
When it comes to gaming the Xperia Play certainly rises above the competition. Gaming feels natural on the device and the Playstation style controls are hard to beat. That being said there are some strange omissions. Not being able to record HD video i...
Abstract: It’s been almost three years and the whole $1 app ecosystem the App Store embodies still makes old school video game industry people about as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a rocking chair factory. Microsoft is looking at it from the bottom of a well,...
