The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is the phone's official name, and it costs $199.99 with a two-year service agreement (or $644 unlocked [no contract]). The phone, with a 4-inch, multi-touch display, uses the Android operating system, and version 2.3, also known as "Gingerbread," at that. The phone will come preloaded with seven games: "Madden NFL 11," "Bruce Lee Dragon Warrior," "Asphalt 6: Adrenaline," "The Sims 3," "Star Battalion," "Crash Bandicoot" and "Tetris."
"Customers can expand their video game library with more than 50 game titles available at launch for download via V CAST Apps," Verizon Wireless said in a press release. "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."
The Xperia Play's spec's include:
- 1 GHz Qualcomm® Snapdragon® II processor with Adreno 205 GPU
- 5-megapixel rear-facing camera
- VGA front-facing camera for still shots and video chatting
- Adobe Flash Player
- Mobile hotspot capability, sharing a 3G connection with up to five Wi-Fi devices.
- Support for Google Mobile Services, including Google Maps, Gmail, Google Talk and access to the Android Market, which now has more than 200,000 apps.
There is some additional good news: Despite the security breach that affected Sony's online PlayStation Network and put it out of commission for almost a month, Sony said recently that the Xperia Play is not affected.
"Sony and Sony Ericsson data reside on different servers," a Sony Ericsson spokesman told Reuters recently. Still, the security breach may hurt the phone's potential sales.
"Sony's PlayStation fiasco will be both an opportunity and a threat for Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play," analyst Neil Mawston of Strategy Analytics told the news service. "It is a threat because a wave of negative headlines is tarnishing the valuable PlayStation brand."
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