Sony Xperia Z review: Zero hour
Sony Xperia T review: T-rexSony Ericsson XPERIA Play review: Bring your 'A' game
With video gaming a sport in its own right, smartphones have no other choice but raise their game too. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play has strong ties to Sony’s gaming rigs, both portable and not, and Sony’s a big name...
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I was so close to getting this...so close...
But even an 18 month contract would see you with a phone severely lacking in specs...
I have a Galaxy S now and it can still be laggy and had a tendency to stall / crash... This has worse specs... it would literally be like having a downgrade... Andthe lack of a radio was the last nail in the coffin...
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- 2011-05-05 23:54
- HKye
- Steve 'o'
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playing the KOF series properly and showing off perfect combos anywhere takes the cake man. I'm getting it.
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- 2011-05-02 05:49
- IVKv
- Mikro
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You that who complains about single core cpu is not enough. Have you ever played games on PS2, Wii & Xbox 1? These systems sure had enough firepower to run some really cool games.
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- 2011-05-01 15:01
- m@vB
- TC
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> In reply to golden @ 2011-04-30 12:09 from MkXA - click to readTilting is combined with some onscreen keys!
Play cost almost as much as Galaxy S2, and that is to much when Play already have outdated cpu and gpu and will not even be able to play the newest games released later this year. Having this bad cpu and gpu in a dedicated gaming phone is not good enough, especially not when it is this very expensive! And the internal 400 mb memory is not enough, it is even less than the 512 mb RAM!
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- 2011-05-01 08:00
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- LowestBird
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the device is pretty sweet, but for the love of god Sony give us an 8-way d-pad.
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- 2011-04-30 20:03
- kUw}
- golden
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> In reply to TC @ 2011-04-23 07:10 from 0TqX - click to readSo how exactly do you kick or stab someone in a game by tilting the phone
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- 2011-04-30 12:09
- MkXA
- The Ex-Nokia Fanboy
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> In reply to GfSaMn @ 2011-04-28 19:57 from 0xmu - click to readSingle core is good enough for mobile gaming. There is still not a single game out there that requires two cores.
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- 2011-04-29 19:10
- IDkH
- nick
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> In reply to TC @ 2011-04-23 07:10 from 0TqX - click to readyeah that's why the playstation's sixaxis controllers really took off.
...oh wait.
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- 2011-04-24 16:55
- nxwR
- Yohan SL
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> In reply to TC @ 2011-04-23 07:10 from 0TqX - click to readDude Seriously?
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- 2011-04-24 09:20
- tevG
- Seabass978
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> In reply to TC @ 2011-04-23 07:10 from 0TqX - click to readTry doing "hadoken" or more than one directional like forward forward then. Gyroscope can't replace physical buttons.
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- 2011-04-23 16:43
- RbqA
- TC
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A physical game-pad is not needed for gaming because motion-gyro-sensors replace directional keys in games.
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- 2011-04-23 07:10
- 0TqX
- arp
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Some copy-paste done from the arc review. understandable though :P
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- 2011-04-23 07:05
- mcja
- TC
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> In reply to Anonymous @ 2011-04-21 20:28 from 39k6 - click to readApps2sd on 2.2 is useless because even every app that "install" on the sd-card still install a rather large part on the internal memory, and many apps do not install on the sd-card at all even with apps2sd. 400 mb is not enough and the user will very soon run out of memory to install apps and games!
It is 2011 and for a "gaming phone" today, 2011 not 2010, dual-core is a minimum becauase many new games this year will not be playable on anything less than dual-cores with a graphics-card as good as the latest from NVidia, and only 400 mb on a this expensive phone is definetly not enough.
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- 2011-04-23 07:05
- 0TqX
- bewrong
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been thinkering with the phone for more than a week now and proud to be the first owner of it in my country :) been waiting for this review and gsmarena gives it justice.
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- 2011-04-22 20:48
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- ravs
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its an awesome fone and very well written that it can replace any other fone in the market but none can take its place, not even come close to it.
its a damn piece of beauty.
been using this fone for 20 days now and it has been a pleasure to own this.
awesome games, full joy to play games.
camera is good.
ui is slick and ticking.
music is awesome.
and the stereo speakers have no competition at all in the amrket and its million folds better than slate type touchscreens being flooded everyday in the android market.
sony is just so original and bold.
though it came late but- its better late than never.
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- 2011-04-22 14:33
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- gnodeb
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This is not a phone. You can not wonder what phone you can buy for this money. You can wonder what portable gaming device you can buy for this money. Having full capable android on board is just big plus for this gaming device... While it can replace any phone, no other phone can replace it. Thy only question is: do you need portable gaming device...
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- 2011-04-22 12:21
- mcU{
- Anonymous
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Dual-core or not...the Xperia Play is one good-looking, great Android phone.
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- 2011-04-22 11:41
- t7JG
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