Is The Xperia Play Worth Buying?
Since around the end of August 2010 there has been a lot of hubbub surrounding Sony Ericsson and a large number of rumors have surfaced concerning the potential combination of a gaming medium and a smartphone all based on an Android platform. It has been no secret that Google have been engineering their operating system to be better able to cope with games and this has made it the perfect operating system for Sony Ericsson to release their latest handset. As of March 2011, the Xperia Play, Playstation certified gaming smartphone will hit the shops.
What is quite obviously apparent now is that the Xperia Play has caused quite a stir in the smartphone world as it could be the start of something new, a new direction for smartphones and mobile gaming and also the development of other technologies, all depending on the success of the handset. However, Sony Ericsson is well aware of the failure of Nokia’s attempt to break open this sector with the N-Gage, which was ultimately poorly timed and inadequately supported. Things have changed a lot since then though, and with the continuously increasing success of downloadable applications and games for mobile formats, the timing for this kind of device may not get better.
Powering this machine is an important point to consider as with mobile gaming a strong foundation of hardware is needed before you even start optimizing games to be compatible. Luckily the Xperia Play looks like it will be able to compete with the top of the bunch in terms of frame rates and computing ability with its 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and an embedded graphics processing unit made by the same company.
On top of the amazing ability of the hardware specifications, the Xperia Play is quite an accomplished handset with the latest version of the Google Android OS, version 2.3 or Gingerbread, and great navigational menus similar to the Playstation Portable interface. Additionally it comes with an impressively capable five megapixel camera, though the one drawback is that it is incapable of recording high definition video.
Ultimately it is very common for hybrid devices that try to do more than one thing end up not being able to do anything particularly well and fail because of this. However, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play does not seem to be showing any of those characteristics and it is quite clear that it is a formidable device and could very well pave the way for the future of mobile gaming, changing the sector as we know it.
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