Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is a Unique Entertainment Phone

The Xperia range of Android smartphones from Sony Ericsson have all been excellent all round devices, with a similar physical design and set of features. The Xperia Play is the first Xperia phone to attempt to deviate away from the series in a significant way and it does so by incorporating some unparalleled gaming features from Sony's PlayStation franchise. While this gaming support makes the Xperia Play easily the best smartphone for gamers, the Play still offers an exceptional all-round set of smartphone features like its other Xperia cousins.

The main thing that sets the Xperia Play apart as being the ideal phone for gamers is that it is the only smartphone to come with a control pad. This is the same control pad as the one found on the PlayStation and the PSP and will be familiar to anyone who has ever used these devices. While this is the primary method of interaction for games the Xperia Play also comes with a fully touch sensitive screen allowing you to use it as a standard Android smartphone.

The Xperia Play comes with the latest Android Gingerbread operating system and includes the excellent features you would expect to find on this including Android Market and social networking support for websites like Facebook and Twitter. Other messaging options include threaded SMS, email and instant messaging. You can make use of all of these great features including excellent web browsing support with Adobe Flash support thanks to the excellent 3G and Wi-Fi connections on the Play.

The connectivity options also allow you to enjoy multiplayer gaming with the PSP games on offer. There were already scores of such titles available upon the phones release and with it likely that this will just be the first of a whole series of PlayStation phones you can be rest assured that there will be many more gaming titles to be released in the coming months and years.

With access to Android Market you can still enjoy touchscreen games as well, just as you would do on any other Android smartphone. This is because there is much more entertainment on offer here than just the excellent PlayStation support. For example, the phone comes with a great 5 megapixel camera with WVGA video recording support and you can directly upload the videos to your YouTube account.

The Xperia Play also provides entertainment via music and video support due to its excellent media player on board. As well as the PSP control pad (including left and right trigger buttons neatly hidden behind the 4" LED backlit LCD screen which offers some beautiful graphical quality), and as well as the touch sensitive screen the phone can also allow additional means of control through its gyroscopic sensor.

Gaming is starting to take off on smartphones with many people idly whittling away the hours with addictive games from Android Market or Apple App Store. Although the PlayStation's arch enemy Microsoft has also made an entrance into the mobile phone gaming arena with Xbox LIVE support on its Windows Phone 7 devices, the Xperia Play has an upper hand thanks to its dedicated control pad which currently marks it out as a unique entertainment smartphone.

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