Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G Review

Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G is a little bit outdated phone launched in 2011, featuring a good performance processing unit clocking at 1 gigahertz, a 5 MP back camera and a medium sized 4" capacitive touch-screen.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G is quite thick compared to nowadays cellphones, with its 0.63 inches thickness. It appears that Sony forgot about optimizing the weight, releasing a 6.17 ounces heavyweight product.

Sony decided to power the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G using a great performance 1 gigahertz processing unit, bundled in the Qualcomm Snapdragon S2 MSM8255 chip and 512 MB RAM memory. To handle graphic intensive tasks, the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G also has a 245 megahertz Adreno 205 graphic processing unit. This phone counts with a 409,6 MB internal memory, a low amount that may be adequate for some basic users considering that it also has a slot for an SD memory card to store photographs and videos.

This phone includes a good level 854 x 480 4 inches screen, which makes all images and movies look vivid. This screen uses TFT capacitive technology, and can detect multiple fingers at the same time.

This cellphone provides Wi-Fi connectivity (which it can share with other devices around, as a mobile hotspot) and fast 3G data connection, using HSDPA, HSPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This phone works with a SIM card for GSM carriers.

This cellphone only features a 5 megapixels back camera. This device can also capture HD 1280x720 videos at 30 frames per second. In addition, the camera features a couple of good characteristics: auto-focus, flash, geo tagging and digital image stabilization.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY 4G features a mid capacity 1500 mAh Li-Ion replaceable battery that can keep this phone running for many hours, although you will need to charge it even after moderate use. According to Sony, this phone has a reported 8.4 hs talk time and a 425 hours stand by time.

This cellphone also comes with a couple useful features like Bluetooth (provides communication with other phones and accessories) and GPS, and a couple sensors likeLight Sensor, Proximity Sensor and Accelerometer.

Sony sells this phone for 290 dollars, which is not a really offer for this type of cellphone.