Xperia Play PlayStation phone gets extensive preview; videos, benchmarks, more

By on Jan 7, 2011 at 8:37 AM
Gaming January 7, 2011

Sony Ericsson might not be ready to unveil the highly anticipated Xperia Play at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, but the world is most definitely ready to see this little guy get official. Perhaps in an effort to appease the masses of anxious mobile gamers waiting impatiently to get their mits on the upcoming PlayStation-branded Gingerbread phone, Chinese enthusiast blog IT168 has issued an extensive preview of the device. And when we say extensive, we mean it. Details found within the preview include confirmation of a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a Qualcomm Adreno 205 graphics processor, a 4-inch 854 x 480-pixel display, an 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, a 1,500 mAh battery, microSDHC support and 512 MB each of RAM and ROM. The blog also ran some benchmark tests and, well, the results were pretty impressive — the forthcoming Xperia phone scored 1,733 in Quadrant. Hit the jump for some solid Xperia porn and then hit the read link for a gigantic, poorly translated preview.

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  • Anonymous

    I like but why the old processor? Dual core is where its at now. Come on Sony.

  • Anonymous

    I get the feeling that the Xperia Play is/is going to be the victim of some combination of the following; poor management, a lack of marketing, a lack of support, over-engineering, and obsolescence before release. I wouldn’t be completely surprised to see it canned.

    • http://twitter.com/livingbasehead Shelton

      Defiantly agree, unless sony is willing to launch a huge marketing campaign this isnt going to hit. n’gage 2.0 but with way stronger competitors… to quote pokemon this phone is… not very effective.

  • Ryuluddy

    With every provider locking even Android, to a certain extent, this will be a flop. Good idea, but providers have too much control over content on devices, even, “open source,” android.

  • http://twitter.com/livingbasehead Shelton

    GT5 to come out within the next decade for it…

  • Anonymous

    Likely the biggest problem will be battery life.

    • http://twitter.com/saltorio Shawn S. Altorio

      No. The biggest problem will be SE not providing support for the device after it’s released to the public. Just look at the Xperia X10 (and X12 and X1 before it) for examples.

  • Anonymous

    The only thing I’m worried bout PSP phone will it be available upgrade to GingerBread or HoneyComb?

  • Which way is Up?

    my son can’t see this post!

  • http://www.mutuionlineok.com Alex

    It looks really nice but i fear that battery life will be a big problem for such device

  • sirpaul

    Looks good. This is going to be a hit! The gaming will be very nice – touch screen FPS games can be a bit annoying – I want to see the whole screen, and not worry about “crossing boundaries” when swiping my finger around to perform functions. Props to Sony! PlayStationPocket sounds a bit lame, though.

  • Anonymous

    This phone will garner sales intially from the avid gamer who knows little about cell phones, but for the rest of us on this site a huge glaring factor is that whatever android version is comes with may be its last as well as being behind in hardware to phones showing at CES when it will debut at MWC. With that said I hope it does well so that maybe next year we see a mature wp7 phone able to play Halo, Gears of War, and Fallout.

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