Sony Xperia Play comes Exclusive to Verizon for a limited Time

The Sony Xperia Play aka PlayStation Phone debuted in a scary Super Bowl Ad last February. Today Verizon announced the availability of the Xperia Play. Verizon Wireless will have an exclusivity on the gaming phone for a limited time. The Xperia Play features a slide out gaming pad and reminds strongly on the Sony PSPgo. The PSPgo did fail in sales, let's see if this form factor works better for an Android Phone.

Powered by Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY will come pre-loaded with seven game titles including, Madden NFL 11 (EA Sports), Bruce Lee Dragon Warrior (Digital Legends), Asphalt 6: Adrenaline (Gameloft), The Sims 3 (EA), Star Battalion (Gameloft), Crash Bandicoot (Sony Playstation) and Tetris. Customers can expand their video game library with more than 50 game titles available at launch for download via V CAST Apps. Customers easily become gamers with the slide out game pad revealing a directional keypad, dual analog touch joystick, two shoulder buttons and the four iconic PlayStation symbol keys: circle, X, square and triangle.

Key Features:

• 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon II processor with Adreno 205 GPU
• Adobe Flash Player
• 4-inch multi-touch display
• 5-megapixel rear-facing camera
• VGA front-facing camera for still shots and video chatting
• Support for Google Mobile Services including Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk, Google Search, Google Maps and access to more than 200,000 apps available to download from Android Market
• Mobile hotspot capability- share 3G connection with up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices

The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY will be available for pre-order online starting May 19, and in stores on May 26 for $199.99 with a new two-year customer agreement.

Updates

Sony Confirms Xperia Play Won’t Have Android 4.0 After All

Source: MMOMFG

Even though Sony’s put a lot of effort into marketing the Xperia Play as a core gaming device, it won’t be on the short list of systems with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Sony confirmed as much in an update to their Xperia Pro ...
Full article at: MMOMFG  More like this  3 hours ago

Sony confirms Xperia Play will not get Android 4.0, cites stability concerns

Source: The Verge

A day after word spread that Sony's Xperia Play had vanished from its list of incoming Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades, the company has come forward and confirmed that the gaming-centric handset will not be makin ...
Full article at: The Verge  More like this  4 hours ago

No Ice Cream Sandwich for Sony's Xperia Play

Source: PC Magazine

For the top stories in tech, follow us on Twitter at @PCMag. Sony confirmed today that it will not upgrade the Xperia Play, also known as the "PlayStation phone," to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. "After extensive in-house t ...
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