Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Comes With Dedicated Psp Controls

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Mobile phone gaming is only just becoming a big thing in the world of smartphones despite games being available back on monochromatic devices in the 1990s. There had been earlier attempts at mobile phone gaming, 2003's Nokia N-Gage for example, but was never something that really took off in the same way as camera phones or music phones.
The recent explosion in mobile phone gaming is undoubtedly due to the introduction of touchscreen smartphones and various app stores for developers to release their creations. The touchscreen environment is much more conducive to gaming than earlier small screens and the Apple App Store and Android Market provide the perfect means to make it easy for game development to take place.
While the games available in these app stores can be great fun and highly addictive it was only the end of 2010 that saw the introduction of the sort of games that traditional gamers had been used to on their consoles. This was with the introduction of Windows Phone 7 which came with Xbox LIVE as a standard feature. Even though this feature had come directly from the world of console gaming it still suffers ...
... from the same limitations as the touchscreen titles available through various app stores.
This limitation is being constricted to the touchscreen as a method of input meaning that only certain styles of games can really be implemented well. The Xperia Play, or PlayStation Phone, is the first smartphone to overcome this limitation by being the first phone to come with a dedicated control pad. This control pad is revealed through a sliding mechanism and is the same style and design as a PlayStation or PSP controller.
This is likely to make the Xperia Play a popular phone with anyone who ever used either of those consoles and also for anyone keen on getting into mobile gaming. While the gaming mode is activated by sliding the control pad out, it also operates as a standard touchscreen smartphone too. The phone runs on Google Android like most handsets in the Sony Ericsson Xperia range and also comes with Sony Ericsson's Timescape interface with great support for social networking and access to the Android Market. This means that users of the Xperia Play still have access to all of the touchscreen games available to other Android phone users while at the same time having a range of titles all to themselves.
The phone also comes with an excellent camera with WVGA video support and the ability to upload videos directly to YouTube. Speedy 3G and Wi-Fi connections mean that you can make use of all sorts of excellent online features including multiplayer gaming. With a 4" LED backlit LCD screen, 1GHz processor and Adreno graphics acceleration the Xperia Play packs a lot of power and visual prowess for gaming and for all serious gamers out there is clearly the obvious choice of phone, having numerous advantages over other gaming devices such as the Xbox LIVE enabled Windows Phone 7 handsets.

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