Sony has confirmed the bad news. The Sony Xperia Play, the company’s PlayStation phone, will not be getting the upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. In a blog post, the company updated its customers on the Android 4.0 roll out process and in it, Sony announced that the Xperia Play would not be getting [...]
Though the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play’s arrival on AT&T‘s 4G HSPA+ network trails the launch of the 3G device on Verizon’s network by four months, the inclusion of HSPA+ support and attractive pricing options for those looking to buy the phone on contract or without a two-year commitment may help this device succeed in the [...]
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has been out in the United States since May 26th. Only problem is, it has been limited to Verizon only. We knew that AT&T would end up getting the PlayStation Phone eventually but we weren’t sure as to when until today when AT&T dropped a release date and pricing on [...]
If you’re looking to nab a new Android phone and you could care less about the upcoming Motorola Droid Bionic or Samsung Galaxy S II, then you might want to have a look at two deals that are going on right now for the HTC Sensation 4G on T-Mobile and the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play [...]
In a change of pace from all of the press releases and conferences that we get these days for smartphone announcements, AT&T has silently announced that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play aka the PlayStation Phone will be hitting its network. The reason I use silent announcement is because there is no press release for this [...]
In addition to that sale on Windows Phone 7 devices that its holding throughout June, Amazon is also playing host to a seven day spring sale on some of Verizon’s top of the line devices.So, if you’ve been itching for a phenomenal deal on some of Big Red’s big name phones, the deals that Amazon [...]
After weeks and weeks of waiting, O2 UK has finally launched the PlayStation Phone, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, on its network. It took nearly two months but it seems that O2 and Sony have finally worked out the bugs that prevented the device from being released on its original launch date which was, if [...]
Today is a big day for those that love gaming on their phone because the ultimate gaming phone has just hit the shores of the U.S. in the form of the Sony Xperia Play for Verizon. If you’re thinking about buying this phone, you’ll probably want to snag the best deal, and we’re thinking that [...]
While the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play isn’t scheduled to officially arrive on Verizon until May 26th, it looks like some of those that pre-ordered the device are already seeing their orders arrive. Back on May 17th, Verizon announced that the device formally known as the PlayStation Phone would be hitting its network this week for [...]
Despite a promise that pre-orders of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play would only begin to ship on May 25th to coincide with the launch on May 26th, the U.S. CDMA model has already begun to ship by Verizon Wireless. A reader had sent in screenshots of his FedEx tracking to Droid-Life, which shows that the [...]
We had a feeling that May 26th was going to be the day that Verizon would finally put the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play on shelves and sure enough, Big Red has announced that the device formally known as the PlayStation Phone is going to be available on the 26th for $200. The Xperia Play has [...]
It appears that the Sony Xperia Play will be launching the day that the Motorola Droid X2 is supposed to arrive, that day being May 26th, and it will be the first Verizon device rocking Google’s latest and greatest version of Android, Android 2.3 Gingerbread. While that’s good news for those on Verizon looking to [...]
In a report from PlayStation Lifestyle, it appears that the recently released Sony Ericsson Xperia Play aka PlayStation Phone, is having hard time selling games and Sony for its part, isn’t worried about it in the slightest. The Xperia Play gaming smartphone, which has been out since April 1st, has seen extremely low sales for [...]
The Sony Xperia PLAY is an Android smarpthone infused with PlayStation gaming abilities and perhaps the first dedicated hardware gamepad to be built into a smartphone. The Sony Xperia PLAY is launching worldwide, but in the U.S. the device will land on Verizon. The Sony Xperia PLAY is best known as a PlayStation phone because it will [...]
Not only are developers tackling tablets, but they are also tackling games on touchscreen devices in a big way according to a recent survey (PDF download link). EraThink is hoping to combine the two in a portable form factor with its EraPalm device, which will compete with devices like the Razor Switchblade concept and the [...]
Sony Ericsson finally launched its ‘PlayStation Phone’, the Sony Xperia PLAY, in 11 markets worldwide today and expects to launch the device in 6 more markets over the course of the next two weeks. Accompanied by 60 games coming out in the first week, the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY is now available in UK, Germany, [...]
In a statement today, Sony Ericsson confirmed that due to shipping issues, the upcoming PlayStation Phone aka Sony Xperia PLAY will be missing tomorrow’s launch date for Vodafone and Three in the United Kingdom and won’t be available until next week at the earliest. This news comes on the heels of a previous delay with [...]
O2 and Sony have confirmed that the version of the Xperia Play headed to the United Kingdom based carrier has been delayed beyond the scheduled April 1st launch date because of some kinks still being worked out with the software. Stuart Hibberd, head of O2’s testing team, explained it like this to Pocket-lint: As the [...]
Taking a page out of Old Spice’s book, Sony has released some pretty strange but funny advertisements for their latest Android phone, the Sony Xperia PLAY. Thankfully they aren’t as creepy as the original thumb ads. Featuring comedian and actress Kristen Schaal of Flight of the Conchords fame, the new promos focus on the gaming [...]
On the NVIDIA Tegra Zone, an app in which the chip-maker highlights high-performance games and apps that are compatible with Android devices running the dual-core Tegra 2 processor, NVIDIA says that the Sony’s PlayStation suite is coming to Android devices, which will bring PlayStation games and other gaming apps to Android smartphones. Of course, Sony [...]
A leaked image of a Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7 smartphone was shown on WMPU. However, the UI displayed on the phone’s screen suggests that this potential XPERIA handset may be an old leaked prototype, though Sony Ericsson has been reported in recent news to be mulling a Windows Phone 7 release–the company has released [...]
In addition to showing off the XPERIA Play as a PlayStation-certified Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone, Sony Ericsson was also demoing the XPERIA Pro at the Game Developers Conference. The XPERIA Pro will utilize a landscape-oriented slide out keyboard, rather than the PlayStation game controller on the Play, and has a 3.7-inch rather than the 4-inch [...]
We caught up with Sony Ericsson at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to get some hands-on time with the company’s ‘PlayStation Phone,’ officially called the XPERIA Play. The XPERIA Play is an Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone that was announced at Mobile World Congress and features a slide-out PlayStation controller along with shoulder trigger [...]
True to the company’s promise, the PlayStation Phone has been made official at Mobile World Congress by Sony Ericsson as the XPERIA Play. The Android handset will come pre-loaded with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and will be powered by a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU when it launches, complete with the chip-maker’s Adreno 205 integrated GPU. [...]
After months of leaks and sightings of Sony Ericsson’s PlayStation Phone, the company has finally announced the XPERIA Play, which will be the official name to the device. Not a lot of details were announced today, but the company is promising more information at Mobile World Congress, where the device will make its first official [...]
Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper is saying that the long-rumored Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone will make its big debut in Spring 2011, as reported by Yahoo News. Europe and the U.S. will be among the first markets to see the device launch, followed by other locations. The device of the Android-based smartphone will be based on [...]
It looks like Sony Ericsson has filed for the XPERIA Play trademark with the European Union, and the XPERIA Play domain names (.com, .net, and .org) have been registered by the PR agency that handles Sony Ericsson’s European publicity. The PlayStation Phone is rumored to be launching with Android and will feature a PlayStation gaming [...]
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