The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is the worlds first PlayStation certified Android smartphone. For those gamers out there who just don’t think the Android game selection is enough, the Xperia Play is something you should be looking at. The reviews have been great, even though the phone is bigger than normal, but then you have to consider that it’s also a playstation!!
What is the Xperia play?
The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY for Verizon Wireless is an Android smart phone and premium gaming device all in one! The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY is the world’s first PlayStation Certified Smart Phone and comes equipped with dedicated slide-out gaming controls. Powered by Android 2.3, the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY will come pre-loaded with seven game titles, including: Madden NFL 11, Bruce Lee Dragon Warrior, Asphalt 6: Adrenaline, The Sims 3, Star Battalion, Crash Bandicoot, and Tetris. Easily become a gamer with the slide-out game pad that features a directional keypad, joystick, and the four iconic PlayStation symbol keys. Smart phone features such as a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4″ multi-touch display, Adobe Flash Player, 5 megapixel camera, VGA front-facing camera for video chat, Mobile hotpsot-capability, and your favorite Google Mobile Services make the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY the ultimate smart phone for the ultimate gamer.
Now available for Pre-Order on the AndroidSPIN cell phone store, you get an great price an added voucher bonus that can be used for purchasing games and application from the Android Market.
If you want to see more details about the device, you can check out the video review our good friends at WireFly put together.
If your ready to make the purchase, you can click on the picture below, complete your purchase, and your device should be shipping on the May 26th release date.
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To me this is just the PSP Go with a phone built in. I guess if you a are a Sony fanboy this looks great, but personally i would never trust Sony enough to but into their ecosystem like this. Will you be able to transfer games to another device? wil there ever be another device? Or will this just be another dead end that Sony will abandon if sales don’t meet initial expectations?
My only fear of giving verizon two years for this phone is that it will not really be supported by big gaming devs! I sent emails to both gameloft and ea, asking if they would bring games like hero of Sparta two and dead space to the play! Gameloft said sorry but I can’t tell you and ea didn’t even respond!