Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Price

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is a beautifully designed smartphone with ergonomic design to perfectly fit in hands of the users. It’s sleek with 119X62X16mm physical dimensions and weighs 175 grams.The size of its capacitive multi-touch reality display is typically large, it being sized at 4.0 inches. It is powered by 1GHz scorpion ARMv7 processor and comes with the latest Android v2.3 Gingerbread operating system on which makes its 16M colour, 480X854 px resolution screen not just look brilliant but also perform brilliantly. The phone will be available in two basic shades i.e. white and black.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play from Sony Ericsson is a comprehensive entertainment package and that is because it is gaming phone. Nevertheless, the smartphone is yet, endowed with a Sony Ericsson Music player and Google™ Music Player with stereo speakers and TrackID™ music recognition application. Its Bluetooth comes with A2DP and one may also enjoy and use MP3/AAC music tones on this handset.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has an extraordinary camera of 5.1 Mega Pixels with autofocus, flash light, touch focus, geo-tagging and image stabilizer like features. The video recording can be done in video light and video blogging option is also open for the users.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has a large phonebook memory with inherent capacity of storing practically unlimited phonebook entries, photocall and call records. The internal memory is of 400MB and its free memory can be expanded via the microSD card to up to 32GB while a 8GB card is already included inside.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has a standard Li-Ion battery whose performance varies with network connection, usage and configuration of the phone. It deliver brilliant standby performance of maximum 425 hours on GSM connection which lowers down to 413 hours on UMTS connection and 403 hours on CDMA2000, CDMA One or EVDO network. The talk time delivered is upto 6 hours 25 minutes on UMTS and lowers to 8 hours 25 minutes on GSM connection and 7 hour 45 minutes on CDMA network.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has stereo speakerphones and Bluetooth with Audio Distribution profile that facilitates a great music audio quality on the phone. The usual 3.5mm audio jack is also embedded for music listening.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play boasts DLNA connectivity which let users of Xperia PLAY connect to any DLNA compatible device wirelessly. It also facilitates and supports stereo Bluetooth, USB mass storage with microUSB 2.0 and USB cable usage that comes free with handset. PC synchronization is also possible on phone that syncs the smartphone with Facebook (if Facebook app is installed on handset), Microsoft Exchange, Google Sync and Sony Ericsson Sync. For faster connectivity, there is also Wi-Fi in configuration 802.11 b/g and there is Wi-Fi hotspot functionality.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play supports and facilitates messaging features as SMS (concatenated), MMS, Email, Instant messaging etc. Also, there is predictive text input for faster typing and Android Cloud to Device Messaging is its newest and coolest messaging feature that every Android user will proudly enjoy.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play gives quite a satisfying browsing experience to its users as it comprises of in built Android HTML Web browser. Other goodies are Google services viz. Gmail™, Google Calendar™, Google Gallery 3D™, YouTube™, Google Maps™ with Street View and more that may be accessed on the phone and it may not be available for all the Android clients depending on the place.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play works on a variety of networks. First is the quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connection in configuration of 850/900/1800/1900 and second is the UMTS/HSPA in two configurations UMTS/HSPA 800/850/1900/2100 and 900/2100 MHz respectively. The last one is the CDMA network on frequencies of EVDO/CDMA2000/CDMA-one networks.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is meant for gaming and this is its most highlighted feature. There is a slide out game pad in the phone that shows a digital D pad, two touch pads, two shoulder buttons and the four PlayStation icons namely circle, cross, square and triangle.The processor of the phone i.e. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor rated at 1GHz along with the embedded Adreno GPU graphics processor also inherent in it gives a smooth 60fps play-back 3D mobile gaming experience on phone with minimum power consumption and one may enjoy long hours of battery life and game time. There are 3D, motion-based and gesture gaming available on the phone whose brilliant 4.0”multi-touch reality screen is the perfect playground for games.

With Google location services such as A-GPS, Sony Ericsson Xperia Play smartphone allows flawless navigation facility to its users and the loaded Google Maps makes the navigation even more smooth and convenient.

Running on Android platform with v2.3 with super fast graphics and dedicated game controls, Sony Ericsson Xperia Play from Sony Ericsson is indeed a unique smartphone. This gen-next smartphone gives superb multimedia and gaming functionality via its 5.1 MP camera, Sony Ericsson music player and access to PlayStation games, all out of the box kind of stuff. Its connectivity options are by far quite commendable as in the Wi-Fi support, Bluetooth, USB port and its ability to connect to any DLNA compatible devices. Moreover, there is A-GPS and access to many Google services on this phone.

Running on Android v2.3 and endowed with set of impressive features viz. the 5.1 MP camera with advanced features, 4.0 inch capacitive touch-screen display which is powered by 1GHz snapdragon processor, DLNA support and great looks, Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is a desirable piece of gadget indeed. It lets users entertain self like no other game and work efficiently as well.

Battery life of Sony Ericsson Xperia Play form Sony Ericsson could have been better and some mid-range phone features could also have been integrated to please some users like a FM radio which is completely missing. We also miss HD connectivity on this handset.

Sony Ericsson’s Xperia PLAY is first Play Station certified smartphone running on latest android platform v2.3 Gingerbread OS. It means that Sony Ericsson Xperia Play will have direct access to PlayStation game content via the PlayStation Suite initiative which is yet developing under Sony Computer Entertainment. This smartphone will immerse users in a gaming world full of entertainment and excitement. Xperia PLAY is a perfect amalgamation of quality (PlayStation-gaming) with latest Android smartphone technology. Sony Ericsson Xperia Play shall sell globally in selected markets from March 2011.