PlayStation Phone. This is the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, gaming-oriented phones with the latest from Sony Ericsson. With a design like the PSP Go and some exclusive games, will the Xperia Play lovers can quench the thirst of mobile gaming? With the price of USD 500, the following features of the Xperia Play: LCD 4.0 'FWVGA resolution (480 x 854 pixels), the Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread, Scorpion 1 GHz processor, GPU Adreno 205, 512MB RAM, 5MP autofocus camera LED flash; video recorder resolution WVGA @ 30fps, Wi-Fi b / g / n, GPS, microUSB, Bluetooth v2.1 and a micro SD slot.
Design and Body
Sony Ericsson deserves thumbs up for design. They have a very distinctive identity designs. In the closed state is similar to a mobile phone or Xperia Xperia Neo Pro with an arch at the top and bottom of the phone. Sony Ericsson still maintain a physical button for 4 buttons in the front area. To the left and right sweetened with silver list for exclusive impression. The unit we received was glossy white, something like the Xperia X10. Pretty cool, especially supported by the macho design. But it all makes Xperia Play is quite heavy, although the weight of the phone would be more comfortable and used to play games. 
When the side slide open, XPlay looks like a PSP Go, which has a white color as well. PlayStation-style buttons for the touchpad like the dual analog Dpad buttons, action buttons, select, start and PlayStation settings button. And still more buttons plus R and L. These buttons size is small if compared to the Sony PlayStation gamepad, but quite comfortable to use and easy. Slide is quite steady and firm, there are no symptoms rocking.
Screen
Xperia Play is not equipped with a Bravia Engine as the Arc and Neo. The screen has an auto brightness control that utilizes a light sensor above the screen, but there is no option to disable the auto brightness feature is enabled. Screen Play is a bit yellowish like the Xperia Arc when compared with the iPhone 4. 4-inch LCD is sized exactly the same as the xperia x10, with the exact same resolution, 854x480 pixels. For the viewing angle is quite good if compared to his elder brother X10. For the display brightness level at Play was less bright than the Xperia Arc, but in the sun quite noticeable. Contrast level is good enough. Given the Bravia Engine on Arc only works when playing multimedia files, so overall this has a brother and sister Xperia display is quite similar.
Homescreennya exactly the same as the Xperia Arc, with a bluish background typical of Timescape. You can add shortcuts, widgets, folders and wallpaper to the homescreen. Number homescreen is 5 panels that can not be added. For the shortcut there are 4 pieces that can be mounted below the screen, and can be changed is located.
Camera
The camera used Xperia Play 5 Megapixel resolution with a single LED flash. Inter-face is not like the look of the X10 and Arc is something like the Cybershot. XPlay is a camera interface standard Android with a stone patterned background. These features are used, among other things: autofocus, macro, infinite focus, exposure, scene modes, the resolution, quality, and color effects. Also additional features are Geolocation, white balance and flash. XPlay also has a front camera which can be used to photograph, but the results are not good.
Camera is quite good results, the resulting color in the room quite bright and minimal noise, as well as outdoors. For the detail was somewhat lacking, it seems the image is compressed as the highest yields images that we try to only 677KB, while 5MP camera can typically produce more than 1MB of data per image when the image outside the room with abundant conditions.
Video Recording
Video recording XPlay is below the average high end Android phones are at least 720p. Play only equipped with a WVGA resolution only, and not equipped with autofocus, continuous autofocus mode especially macro. Feature was limited, there is only the effect of color, white balance, flash and video quality.
Video recording is quite good results even if the results are not as detailed as 720p HD. Frameratenya quite smooth at 30 frames per second, while for the bitrate 4300kbps. For 30 seconds video recording produces a file of 15.5MB.
Connectivity
Xperia Play runs on 850/1800/1900/2100 Quadband network and HSDPA 900/2100. Then the local connectivity is a-GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi (802.11 b / g / n) and the micro USB (as mass storage, PC syncing, modem, and debug mode). This phone can use the WiFi tethering as in other Gingerbread phones. It also is DLNA certified.
Web Browsers
Default browser used Xperia Play can open up to 8 tabs. For playback of flash went pretty smoothly although there is little lag that is not too distracting. Besides the performance of the browser when the site opens fast desktop, scrolling would be enough to follow the hand. In addition there are various standard settings such as browser history, cookies, javascript and others. Please see the video to find out more about the performance of the Xperia Play browsers.
Benchmark
- Quadrant Standard: 1340 points
- 3D Neocore: 60.3 frames per second
- Multitouch Test: a maximum of 4 touch simultaneously
- Linpack: 37.56 MFlops with a time of 2:23 seconds
Battery Life
With only 1500 mAh battery for durability this phone does not vary much with Xperia Arc. Hold more than a day is more than good enough for Android phones such as this, unless you play games like crazy.
Conclusion
This phone is perfect for game enthusiasts, for multimedia and others are a little less or indifferent, but overall is pretty good for the price of about USD 500. The game does not differ greatly in quality compared to other Android phones, but we did not find any games innate nge-lag, so the gaming performance of this phone is perfect.
Plus:
- dedicated gaming controls
- outstanding gaming performance
- performance is good enough
- Fast and quality stereo speakers
Minus:
- camera and video recording is very standard
- there is no FM Radio
