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The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is a smartphone developed by Sony Ericsson and is the latest release of the Xperia branded series of smartphones. The phone is running on the Android operating system and uses Android 2.3, the latest version, otherwise called Gingerbread. It is the first ever smartphone that is PlayStation certified which means that it can play PlayStation games, and currently there are around 50 of them that have been ported for this phone.
The public got their first glimpse of the phone in February 2011 when it was showcased at the 2011 Mobile World Congress in Spain, though it will not be available for UK customers until 28th March.

The phone features a sliding section but rather than having a keyboard the slider is very similar to the PlayStation Portable Go (PSP Go). There are PlayStation type buttons along with a pair of touch-pads and other buttons. Naturally the phone also shares the same capacitive 854 x 480 pixel touchscreen as the Xperia X10.

The hardware is somewhat of an improvement over the X10. It uses the same Snapdragon processor which is clocked at 1GHz, buy in addition there is a dedicated graphics processer, the Qualcomm Adreno GPU and a faster memory. Otherwise the 5.1 megapixel camera and other features closely resemble the X10.
Certainly this is a smartphone built for the gamers market and although this is a niche, it is a very big niche and one that has been anticipating the launch of such a phone since 2006 when Sony Computer Entertainment filed a patent for one.

Ever since then there have been numerous official and unofficial leaks regarding the phone’s development. It seems that the project suffered a number of setbacks and at one time was actually cancelled. There were also some political setbacks and it took some time before Sony and Sony Ericsson were able to come up with a deal that both organisations were happy with.

Was it all worth the wait and the effort? Naturally only time will tell but so far it seems that for gamers the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play ticks just about all the boxes. head over to the phones4u site today to see all the new Sony Ericsson Xperia deals.