Creative Industries Level 5:Sony's Playstation Phone-'Xperia Play'

With Sony being known as a gaming company it would only seem natural that they would use all forms of technology for gamers to game and when phone were able to play games you believed it would only be a matter o ftime when Sony stepped up and made their own gameplaying phone. Now Sony will release the Sony Xperia Play a smartphone which allows gaming to be played, being a phone and playing games on the move Sony seeks to branch out through more of technology for gaming, with Playstation Certified gamesand here are the specifics beind the Xperia Play:

The device will come in black or white, and work on a surprisingly large list of cell networks, according to the release. The 4-inch screen is a 16,777,216 colour TFT with capacitive multi-touch and 480 x 854 pixels (FWVGA). THe device will ship with a battery, stereo portable handsfree headset, 8GB microSD memory card, charger, micro USB cable for charging synching and file transfer and the user manual.



Battery life, right next to price, is one of the more important things we love to know about a new bit of gadgetry when it hits.



Here's what Sony Ericsson is saying about the Xperia Play:



*Talk time GSM/GPRS: Up to 8 hrs 25 min*

*Standby time GSM/GPRS: Up to 425 hrs*

*Talk time UMTS: Up to 6 hrs 25 min*

*Standby time UMTS: Up to 413 hrs*

*Talk time CDMA2000®: Up to 7 hrs 40 min*

*Standby time CDMA2000®: Up to 405 hrs*

*Game play time: Up to 5 hrs 35 min*

*MP3 playback: Up to 30 hrs 35 min*



Here's a run down of the rest of the specs:



Camera

5.1 megapixel camera

Auto focus

Flash / Photo light

Geo tagging

Image stabiliser

Send to web

Touch focus

Video light

Video recording

Video blogging



Music

Album art

Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)

Google™ Music Player

Music tones (MP3/AAC)

PlayNow™ service*

Sony Ericsson Music player

Stereo speakers

TrackID™ music recognition application



Internet

Android Market™*

Bookmarks

Google™ search*

Google™ Voice Search*

Pan & zoom

Web browser (Webkit)



Communication

Call list

Conference calls

Facebook™ application (from Android Market™)

Google™ Talk*

Noise Shield

Polyphonic ringtones

Speakerphone

Sony Ericsson Timescape™***

Twitter™ application (from Android Market™)

Vibrating alert



Messaging

Android Cloud to Device messaging (C2DM)

Conversations

Email

Google Mail™*

Instant messaging

Picture messaging (MMS)

Predictive text input

Sound recorder

Text messaging (SMS)



Design

Auto rotate

Keyboard (onscreen, 12 key)

Keyboard (onscreen, QWERTY)

Picture wallpaper

Touchscreen

Wallpaper animation



Entertainment

3D games

Dedicated gaming keys

Flash Lite™

Gesture gaming

Motion gaming

Video streaming

YouTube™



Organiser

Alarm clock

Calculator

Calendar

Document editors

Document readers

E-Manual

Flight mode

Google Calendar™

Google Gallery 3D™

Infinite button

Phone book

Set-up Wizard

Widget manager



Connectivity

3.5 mm audio jack

aGPS

Bluetooth™ technology

DLNA Certified

Google Latitude™

Google Location Service

Google Maps™ with Street View

Media Transfer Protocol support

Micro USB Connector

Modem

Synchronisation via Facebook™**

Synchronisation via Google Sync™

Synchronisation via Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync®

Synchronisation via Sony Ericsson Sync

USB 2.0 high speed support

Wi-Fi™

Wi-Fi™ Hotspot functionality

* The service is not available in all markets.

** Requires Facebook™ application installed on the device.



Google™ services*

* These services may not be available in every market Android Market™ Client



Gmail™

Google Calendar™

Google Gallery 3D™

Google Latitude™

Google Maps™ with Street View

Google Media Uploader

Google Music Player™

Google Phone-top Search

Google Search widget

Google Sync™

Google Talk™

Google Voice Search

Set-up Wizard

YouTube™



Facts

Size: 119 x 62 x 16 mm

Weight: 175 grams

Phone memory: 400 MB

Memory card support: microSD™, up to 32 GB

Memory card included: 8GB microSD™

Operating system: Google™ Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

Processor: 1 GHz Scorpion ARMv7