Sunday, February 13, 2011

Mobile World Congress 2011: Sony presents fresh information on the Playstation smartphone Xperia Play

Now is out - along with the new handheld, Sony has another device in the pipeline, which is aimed at gamers who like to indulge their hobby on the road: the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. The HSDPA phone with, FM receiver and Bluetooth interface, the rumor mill busy in recent months under the code name Playstation Phone.

The front of the Xperia's decorated accordingly a four-wide, touch-sensitive LCD display with a 854x480 image of points. Also on board is the Bravia Engine. The image optimization software is known from the television sets of Sony. Despite the touch operation has the Xperia's four-button on the front page, where you start with, for example, the search or return to main menu.

What potters in the interior of the prototype could not yet determine Engadget in detail. The Xperia's working with 512 megabytes of RAM: Sure is. As a graphic processor is used to Adreno-205 chipset. Unclear are the details of the main processor: it is a single-core chip with unknown frequency.

Measurements yielded results between 122.88 MHz and 1 GHz. Engadget speculates on the MSM8655 chipset from Qualcomm, which allows up to 1.2 gigahertz. Whatever it is, the benchmarks are crucial - and that the laboratory equipment: Engadget is testing the Xperia's Quadrant with the software.

The result: 1,689 points. The mean number 1 The Xperia's running with the operating system Android 2.3 Ginger Bread. The games of the Android Market are owners of the Xperia's so available. In addition, a software called PlayStation Pocket is installed, which is used to sort of games. The newly introduced channel Playstation suite was not yet on the Xperia-play prototype.

In the future be powered in this way Android phones with 2.3-Playstation 1 classics. Newer titles will also find their way into the offer. The games are optimized for the Xperia play and his game keys. With the launching at least 50 games on Android Market are available for download. Partners are Sony Computer Entertainment, Digital Chocolate, Digital Legends, Electronic Arts, Fishlabs, Game House, Gameloft, Glu Mobile, mobile games, Namco Bandai Networks, Polarbit, PopCap, trendy entertainment and Unity Tecnologies.

Clear: The Xperia is play with his gamepad-like controls ideal for gaming. Slide the screen upwards, the controller appears. Apart from the lack of shoulder buttons and analog sticks that Sony built as a touch-elements, it is a copy of the PS3 controller with this special feature is the Xperia's slightly thicker than competing smartphones.

Also, a camera is part of the equipment of the Xperia Play: taking shots the lens with a maximum of five megapixels. Video recordings can be a prototype only with a maximum resolution of 800x480 pixels. However, the software is not yet final. Engadget believes that an update also allows 720p movies.

The Xperia is expected to play during the first quarter of 2011 will be available in black and white. The MSRP of 649 €.

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