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The editors liked
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
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
Some of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play 4G's gaming controls are unresponsive. It lacks an HDMI-out port
Gaming pad is well designed, Sony Ericsson's take on Android has some nice features and is easily compensated where it lacks features, battery life when gaming is pretty good
Gaming delivery is a little disparate, screen needs to be brighter, it really needs some exciting gaming titles, video capture is unnecessarily poor
As a smartphone the Xperia Play is reasonable enough and the gaming controls are great, however, the lack of really exciting games at launch is a little disappointing. Software and game development could turn this around, but in these early days, we'd ...
Right now, it's hard to deliver a definitive verdict on the Xperia Play. This is largely due to the that the PlayStation Suite online store not being ready.However we're generally impressed with both the phone and how existing games have been integrate...
The Xperia Play has a black, shiny plastic exterior on the front and back and is silver on the sides. It includes four main buttons below the screen – a back button, a home button, a menu button and a search button.Weighing 175g, this is by no means a ...
If you’re new to Android, you’ll idle hours of time away with the brilliant games and precise controls. There’s perhaps not enough new content to keep Android upgraders so pleased however....
Screen, launch titles are just as fun on other phones
And so, Sony Ericsson finds itself at an impasse. This is a phone for hardcore PlayStation fans prepared to put up with the extra bulk of a slide out section that provides nothing except a gamepad. And yet, some of these very people who will know that ...
Slide-out gaming controls are well built and comfortable; feels fast; decent build quality
Games offering is weak; confusing software; classic PlayStation titles are expensive; rather dim display
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is part console and part Android smart phone. Its hardware is impressive, but confusing and inconsistent software makes playing games a joyless experience. That leaves it a porky Android phone, with little to offer over it...
Abstract: Now that the hotly anticipated PlayStation Phone has been made official, the build turns out to be similar to the - a compact device with a slide out gamepad tucked away beneath the screen. The game pad will look familiar to PlayStation and PSP g...
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Published: 2011-02-18, Author: Rob , review by: itproportal.com
Abstract: Sony Ericsson has finally unleashed their widely anticipated handset, the ‘Xperia Play’, also known as the ‘PSP’ or ‘PlayStation’ mobile phone - which now has a launch date set for April. This is the first Android phone to feature Sony’s PlayStation suite...
