Gamers will love the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. It boasts of being the first PlayStation Certified smart phone, which means that it can run PlayStation Suite games. Indeed, it is preloaded with Madden NFL 11, Bruce Lee Dragon Warrior, Asphalt 6: Adrenaline, The Sims 3, Star Battalion, Crash Bandicoot, and Tetris.
You can enjoy these games on a four-inch LED-backlit LCD screen with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels that provides clear and crisp images. An Adreno 205 graphics processor guarantees this. For controls, a slide-out game pad features a D-pad, two shoulder buttons, dual analog touch joystick, and the standard PlayStation buttons consisting of a triangle, circle, x, and square.
Powered by a 1 GB Snapdragon processor running on an Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, everything is fast with the Xperia Play. Internal memory is 400 MB, 512 MB RAM, but it comes with an 8 GB microSD card which includes the preloaded PlayStation games, using 2 GB. Memory, however, is expandable up to 32 GB.
Relying on the Verizon Wireless 3G EV-DO Rev A network, connecting to the Internet and Verizon’s own multimedia services is quick and easy. You can even share this connectivity with five other devices via Wi-Fi, such as your laptop, MP3 player, or another phone. In addition, the smart phone has Skype Mobile capabilities, giving you free Skype-to-Skype calls and messaging while in the U.S. to anywhere around the world.
With the Gingerbread OS, the Xperia features refined icons, improved notification bar, and more user-friendly navigation. You can also multitask, running several apps at the same time. The spaces between the keys on the onscreen keyboard are wide enough to prevent you from keying in the wrong letters. Their fonts are also enlarged. As Gingerbread supports Adobe Flash Player 10.1, you can view all the many available Flash videos online. And of course, the OS gives you access to Google mobile services and to the Android market where you can find thousands of apps and games.
Other features include a rear 5-megapixel camera with flash, autofocus, and geo-tagging. A front facing camera is also installed for video chats.