Specifications:Service Provider: Verizon Wireless
Operating System: Android OS
Screen Size: 4 inches
Screen details: 854 x 480, 16.7 million color TFT LCD capacitive touch screen
Camera: Yes
Network: CDMA
Bands: 850, 1700
High-speed data: 1xRTT, EVDO Rev A
Processor speed: 1 GHz
Price: $ 599.99
This is not a PlayStation phone, but the control panel on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is the best phone available in the U.S. The game today. As with other phones unique, however, the big question is whether the game is based on Xperia Android will see a steady stream of new programs that play to their strengths.
Physical design, call quality and Internet
Play Xperia is relatively thick and heavy, 4.7, 0.6 2.4 inches (HWD) and 6.2 ounces, is the price you pay for the game controller. The phone is covered with fragile-feeling black plastic and silver, which does not feel the premium product. 4-inch, 854 x 480 display is strong, but the twilight.
Slide open the screen, however, and things brighten considerably. The controller is remarkable. There are four directional buttons, four action buttons PlayStation, two analogue trackpads, Select, and Start menu buttons, with two "wings" on the top edge of the phone and they all feel solid and hard to use.
Button mirror setting PSP, but they are a bit smaller and tighter than those on our PSP, for example, when you press the directional buttons of the PSP, it's like the whole keypad Wiggles Underlying this is not true to play Xperia. The biggest difference between Xperia Play controller and PSP is that swaps Xperia Play PSP joystick is gray for both analog trackpads.
This is a phone first, of course. (If you want a phone, buy a PSP.) The good news is it's a pretty good phone. RF reception was good, and call quality was sufficient in my tests. The handset offers voice calls strong and slightly blurry. There are plenty of side tone, feedback of your own voice in his ear that prevents "cell yell." The speaker is only acceptable to the side of calm. The transmission of audio through the microphone on the other hand, are not large, the phone grows through the background noise as well. The Xperia game had no problem hanging in our time Aliph Jawbone Bluetooth headset ($ 129, 4.5 stars) and the activation of voice dialing. Battery life was positively epic in 9 hours and 46 minutes of talk time, a phone designed to be played throughout the day.
The mobile internet hits the Verizon 3G CDMA EVDO Rev. network and 802.11 b / g / n Wi-Fi, and it does both very well. Verizon's 3G network is slower than T-Mobile and AT & T, but is a great national coverage. Phone is connected to a modem or Wi-Fi hotspots, the right service plan.
Of course, what matters here are the games. If you are not going to spend a lot of playing time, do not buy this phone. Although it is medium to fine-tune the high end Android phone, game controller greatly increases the size and weight of the player Xperia.
You download Xperia Play in one of three ways: by going to the phone Xperia Play Gallery application you shunts Verizon V Cast to the store, by going directly to V CAST shop or go to Android Market, and making a free-text search for "Play Xperia optimized", which is incredibly awkward, and has a lot of things that are not really optimized Xperia Play.
Good news for storing V CAST is the use operator billing, so game purchases appearing on your phone bill, without a credit card. It 'great, but the bad news is that when I tried, it was horribly buggy. Download would crash, pause, or prolonged. I have errors such as "work in progress to buy" and "SD Card write error".
Verizon and Sony Ericsson have said that the applicant was still working on his shop, and that things are better than May 26 release date. When I was three days of this phone, they were already improving. Download Friday risen much faster than on Wednesday. So I hope.
Play Xperia is not a PlayStation phone, not the performance of PlayStation games, and it is out of the world PlayStation success. Instead, the phone works "optimized" Android games.
Sony Ericsson says that the 55 optimized titles start; stuff in stock at this time the quality varies wildly. First of all, I said this is not a PlayStation Phone? There is no law or authorized for the PlayStation emulator, there is no way to buy a PSOne games, do not have access to the PlayStation Network (although the latest security problems, some might argue that is a plus), and the only advice "classic" title is Crash Bandicoot.
The game varies greatly in quality. Preloaded games, Asphalt 6, Bruce Lee, and Madden 11 is puzzling, as they are easy to handheld gaming system. Head to store and find the star HD Battalion and Galaxy on Fire HD is nice to fly and shoot game, Aftermath XHD, suspense, an overhead perspective of zombie-fighting, and Zenon 2, a classic Japanese RPG complete with "all the basic belong to us, "the level of dialogue. Buried in the Android Market (and even the first results page, search for "Dungeon Defenders"), Defenders Dungeon: Second Wave, is a real-time strategy game killer.
But a lot of turnips. Wave Blazer is a low resolution painfully boat racing game. I have to run! is nice, but Apple 2-quality graphics and gameplay. Roller Coaster Revolution examines of 8 bits. Head into the Android Market, and things get Sketchies. Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock says Xperia is a game, but the graphics are jagged and not even use the gamepad.
The gamepad adds a huge amount of gameplay. To play on a touch screen is always a little embarrassed, because your finger covers the field. The touch screen also involves much hand movement, which needs more than moving your thumb a close button. The reagent, physical buttons here you focus on what is happening on the screen.
Sony Ericsson has made some promises, but has a poor record of providing competent smart phones here in the SU not believe their promises, but rather buy this phone if you want to play games today.
Other commands Android
Xperia Play is one of the few phones to run Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and Sony Ericsson said they have to keep us current. While the phone has some Verizon bloatware, it is no exaggeration, and it uses the stock Android interface (unlike the European version of the Game Xperia, offering widgets Sony Ericsson Timescape screen) . This does not mean that stock financing Android under the hood changes, to support gamepad. But it appears that the Android store.
Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset 1GHz The phone, with a GPU Adreno 205, 56.7fps is fast and delivered to the reference Neocore game, which is close to the reference up to 60 frames per second. However, the new dual-core chipset delivers faster performance processor pins, and Nvidia has convincingly demonstrated that the games specially encoded for Tegra chip 2 can show more detail of the same games in the versions written single core snapdragons. Thus, the game Xperia is not clear. The best game show to be good enough for most people.
The phone comes with a memory card of 8 GB that fits into a slot on the back cover, but may return up to a 32 GB card, be sure to copy all the files again, and save your game. Xperia play the game all the usual music formats in the Android standard music player, more than two cables and headsets. MPEG4 and H.264 safely play in standard definition, but no support XVID, DIVX and HD video, no HDMI output.
The images taken with the 5 megapixel camera was a bit 'soft and fuzzy, but it was a good color and not extinguished. The AF is relatively slow 1.2 seconds. The camera mode is a smooth 800 x 480 video at 30 frames per second. There's also a VGA camera in front of quality to the day when Android can be a decent video chat software.
Conclusions
Xperia Play could be better, of course. First it must be a PlayStation phone, with a PlayStation emulator to play PlayStation games on all platforms with the PSP and the NGP. It could also use up-to-the minute, super-gamer chipset Nvidia Tegra 2 or upcoming Qualcomm Adreno 220 GPU. It does not. Let's get over it.
But the fact is that with the right games, the game control Xperia Play makes it more fun playing with this phone than any other device. Apple iPhone 4 ($ 199, 4 stars) is a game most high-end, and the next Droid X2 has more graphics power, but nothing compares to playing with dedicated, high-quality gaming controllers.
The real question is whether great games continue to play out for the Xperia, or whether it will get the same lack of support we have seen in other Sony Ericsson products in the U.S. (Remember the AT & T Xperia X10? No?) Keep an eye on what Sony Ericsson announcement at the E3 gaming conference in June However, if you like the games available for this phone games.
Xperia Play could be better, of course. First it must be a PlayStation phone, with a PlayStation emulator to play PlayStation games on all platforms with the PSP and the NGP. It could also use up-to-the minute, super-gamer chipset Nvidia Tegra 2 or upcoming Qualcomm Adreno 220 GPU. It does not. Let's get over it.
But the fact is that with the right games, the game control Xperia Play makes it more fun playing with this phone than any other device. Apple iPhone 4 ($ 199, 4 stars) is a game most high-end, and the next Droid X2 has more graphics power, but nothing compares to playing with dedicated, high-quality gaming controllers.
The real question is whether great games continue to play out for the Xperia, or whether it will get the same lack of support we have seen in other Sony Ericsson products in the U.S. (Remember the AT & T Xperia X10? No?) Keep an eye on what Sony Ericsson announcement at the E3 gaming conference in June However, if you like the games available for this phone games.
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