Sony Ericcson Xperia Play Review, Specifications and Price

Review:

Xperia Play 311 is a gaming device. Thid device consists of a side slider with gaming controls i.e. a D-pad with the buttons familiar to play station. Xperia play consists of embedded Adreno 205 GPU graphics. Disadvantages include: expensive, very heavy and bulky, poor display, no video calling over 3G. Advantages include: optimum battery life, gaming device, the gaming keypad. The mobile comes in various vibrant colors.

Specifications or features:

Display: The size of the display is 4.0 inches LED-backlit LCD capacitive touchscreen and the resolution of the screen is 480*854 pixels, multi- touch, Touch-sensitive gaming controls, PSP gaming buttons.

Dimensions: The dimensions of the device are 119*62*16 mm and the weight of the phone is 175 g.

Operating System: The operating system on which this device runs is Android v 2.3.4 GingerBread operating system and can be upgradable to Android v 4.0 OS and consist of Timescape User Interface. The processor installed in this device is 1GHz Scorpion processor and Qualcomm MSM8255 Snaprdragon chipset. RAM is 512 MB.

Connectivity: The data connectivity features include GPRS, EDGE, 3G, GPS, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP for file sharing, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n for browsing, Wi-Fi hotspot and microUSB v2.0 for sync between pc and device.

Camera: The primary camera is 5 Mega Pixels; the resolution of the camera is 2592*1944 with auto focus, LED flash and provides video recording @720p. There is a secondary camera. The features of secondary camera are Geo-tagging, image stabilization.

Multimedia: Video formats supported are H2.64, H2.63, AVI, WMV and MP4 and audio formats supported are MP3, eAAC+, WMA, AAC and WAV player

Memory: The internal storage memory is 400 MB and includes 8 GB memory card which can be expandable up to 32GB using a microSD memory card slot

Battery: The battery is li-Ion 1500mAh powered battery and offers 6 hours 25 minutes of battery life for talk time and 413 hours of battery life for standby mode.

Features: Xperia Play consists of predictive text input, voice dialing, adobe flash 10.2 support, game store

Applications: Yahoo mail, Windows Live, Google talk, hot mail, yahoo messenger, Facebook, You Tube, and Google Mail

Color: This device comes in several colors Black, Stealth Blue, Orange and White.

Sensors: Accelerometer, ambient light sensors and proximity

Price of Xperia Play:

The cost of Xperia Play is MRP Rs. 22, 555.The Xperia Play set comes with the device, charger, USB cable, user manual and headset.