Xperia Play Gets Extensive Preview

by Kevin Krause on January 26th, 2011 at 12:33 pm

The Xperia Play is one of the worst kept best secrets in the history of Android phones. With Sony Ericsson doing little but denying the handset up and down, countless videos, hands-on, images, and specs have leaked since the phone was first rumored. Topping it all off several weeks before the handset should be launched at Mobile World Congress, tech blog supreme Engadget has gotten ahold of the Play and given it an extensive once-over.

There really isn’t a whole lot more to say, but you can check out their full thoughts over at the source link below. Engadget’s final thoughts seem to be that the hardware holds up but the ultimate success of the phone will depend on the deployment of the device’s games market, a facet they couldn’t test at the time.

[via Engadget]

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4.5 / 5 stars

3rd_input
I’m still skeptical, but only time will tell if this will develop into a must have.
AndroidToy
Yawn!
Contraus
@AndroidToy
Couldn’t agree more. I’m tired of hearing about it already. Just bring it out so we can see it let us all down and become nothing like what we all anticipate and expect.
AwesomeFred
The Racing game is not widescreen! Hardware too weak?
http://androidized.com Lucian Armasu
Does anyone else think Sony missed a huge opportunity by not using Tegra 2? I think it would sell a lot more with a Tegra 2 chip inside. More power for games and also for running emulators with that controller.
Dave b
theyve most likely had this in the works for a year now, theyll save the tegra2 for the xperia play 2…which theyre probably already working on lol…
wycka
That slide-pad-controller is basically the same as for PS1, PS2, PS3 and compatible with all the NES, SNES, etc. It would be great for emulators on the phone. If SE would release it’s own emulator then the phone could be a success but now it is just a phone of an older generation with a rarely used pad because there are still not so much good enjoyful games for Android. But why someone would buy a phone with pad if there is/would be PSP/PSP2.
nexy ownr
Needs tegra 2
zack
if you look on the notification bar it has an H for the service does that mean its coming to tmobile?
phoenix
wtf?! did he say he hates mario 3?! down with the blasphemer!
jones
i have always wondered what those little circle things are when the phone slides out. what are their purpose?
Tarik
They have so much unused space that if they arranged the buttons a bit, they could fit in a hardware keyboard.
The phone still looks like a concept phone to me. Sorry I’ll pass.
Christopher
@AwesomeFred
No you idiot, the phone is still being developed to work with Playstation. He’s using an emulator!