Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY Review

Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY is a decently made phone launched many years ago, counting with a 4" multi touch screen, a 5 megapixels back facing camera and a great performance processor clocking at 1 gigahertz. We will get a better understanding of this cellphone's specifications when we get into specific details.

This time, Sony forgot about optimizing the weight, releasing a 6.17 oz heavyweight product. This device is a bit thick compared to nowadays cellphones, being as thick as 0.63 inches.

Sony decided to build this phone with a good performance processor speeding at 1000 MHz, included in a Qualcomm Snapdragon S2 MSM8255 chip with 512 MB RAM memory. Handling graphic intensive games and applications, it also uses an Adreno 205 GPU clocking at 245 megahertz. The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY counts with a poor 409,6 MB internal storage, which may be adequate for basic users having that this phone also has a slot for an SD memory card to store photographs and videos.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY only has a 5 megapixels back-facing camera. It is also able to film videos up to 1280x720 (HD) at 30 frames per second. The camera also has a couple of interesting characteristics like auto-focus, flash, digital image stabilization and geo tagging.

This cellphone has a interesting 854 x 480 4 inches display, providing this cellphone with a very nice image quality. This display uses TFT capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch for gestures like pinch and zoom.

This phone features a medium 1500 mAh Li-Ion removable battery providing this device with a below average battery life. Sony afirms this cellphone has a 425 hs stand by time and a 8.4 hs talk time.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY features Wi-Fi capability (which can be shared with other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot) and fast 3G connection type, using HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This phone works with a SIM card for GSM networks.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY also includes some nice characteristics as Bluetooth (for communication with other phones and accessories) and GPS (Global Positioning System), and a couple sensors likeLight Sensor, Proximity Sensor and Accelerometer.

This cellphone is very overvalued considering it is sold for $ 365, and other similar devices can be found for much less money.