The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, codenamed Zeus, is an upcoming handheld gaming smartphone being developed by Sony Ericsson. Under the Xperia smartphone brand running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), the device will be the first device to be part of the PlayStation Certified program which means that it is able to play PlayStation Suite games. The device was originally thought to carry the PlayStation branding, though this has been clarified to be a certification of being part of the PlayStation Certified program.
The device was revealed officially for the first time in a Super Bowl ad on Sunday, February 6, 2011. On February 13, 2011, at MWC 2011, it was announced that the device would be shipping globally in March 2011, with a launch lineup of around 50 software titles. In the US, the Xperia Play it will initially be available only on the Verizon network. In the UK, carriers O2, Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and Three have confirmed that they intend to stock the handset.
The device is a horizontally sliding phone with its original form resembling the Xperia X10 while the slider below resembles the slider of the PSP Go. The slider features a D-pad in an indented area on the left side, a set of standard PlayStation buttons (
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) in an indented area on the right, a long rectangular Touchpad in the middle, start and select buttons in an indented area on the bottom right corner, an option button on the bottom left corner as well as two shoulder buttons (L and R) on the back of the device. The original form, has a long rectangular touch screen, as well as four buttons below a back button, an option button, a home button and a search button. The device features a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a Qualcomm Adreno 205 GPU, a display measuring 4.0 inches (100 mm) (854 × 480), a 5 megapixel camera, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB internal storage, and a microUSB connector. It supports microSD cards, as opposed to the Memory Stick variants used in PSP consoles.
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) in an indented area on the right, a long rectangular Touchpad in the middle, start and select buttons in an indented area on the bottom right corner, an option button on the bottom left corner as well as two shoulder buttons (L and R) on the back of the device. The original form, has a long rectangular touch screen, as well as four buttons below a back button, an option button, a home button and a search button. The device features a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a Qualcomm Adreno 205 GPU, a display measuring 4.0 inches (100 mm) (854 × 480), a 5 megapixel camera, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB internal storage, and a microUSB connector. It supports microSD cards, as opposed to the Memory Stick variants used in PSP consoles.The device will feature the Gingerbread (Android 2.3) firmware, with early prototypes running Android 2.2, and it is supposedly to be one of two successors to the PlayStation Portable being released this year. In addition, the device will apparently run on something known as "Z-System"; though it is unclear what that entails, Sony Ericsson has filed several trademarks for "Z-System".
The device is said to feature games graphically within the range of similar portable devices. The device will play these games via an application currently known as the PlayStation Suite, which changes the interface of the device from that of a phone to the XrossMediaBar closely resembling the PlayStation Portable. The device will also get a dedicated area in the Android Market, specifically for games for the system allowing users to download games on the go. Titles shown off internally on the device, include older PlayStation games as well as new PSP games including God of War and LittleBigPlanet together with plans for future games incorporating augmented reality similar to Invizimals. The prices of the games are also expected to be under USD$10 which is considerably less than the PlayStation Portable's price range of less than USD$40 for games.
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