Engadget has posted an in-depth preview of the upcoming Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone, dubbed the “Xperia Play”, which should be unveiled officially at the MWC next month.
The Xperia Play has a 4-inch display with 854×450 resolution and will run on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Although unconfirmed, the device’s multitouch screen will allegedly be powered by a Sony Bravia engine for smoother video playback.
Under the hood, the device appears to run on a single-core processor clocked at 1-1.2GHz, an Adreno 205 GPU and 512MB RAM.
As is standard, the smartphone/handheld will have 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR, and an FM receiver plus transmitter.
Physically, the smartphone has 4 buttons, Back/Menu/Home/Search, a 1500mAh battery, USB port, microSD slot and 5MP camera which lacks 720p recording.
For now, the site only has a prototype so not all features (especially the gaming aspects) are fully clear and the editor says the firmware is still very buggy, but everything should be become clearer next month at the Mobile World Congress event.
Result for: prototype
Less than a week after unveiling a prototype of the oft-hyped PlayStation Phone, Engadget has revealed more pictures, and some more slight details.
The device is codenamed “Zeus” and the prototype, at least, is running Android 2.2. The phone is expected to launch with 2.3 Gingerbread.
Furthermore the smartphone will come with an 8GB microSD card, a minimum of 512MB internal storage, and be around 17mm thick, almost exactly the same as the PSPgo.
From the original report:
Engadget says the phone will hit the market “soon,” likely in the Q1 2011.
The device will run on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), with a fast 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 processor, 512MB RAM, 1GB ROM and a 4.1-inch screen.
In the gaming part of the slide-out, the PSP Phone has a multi-touch touchpad, shoulder buttons and a microSD slot.
Result for: prototype
Androidandme has posted video today of a prototype device unveiled at the GTC 2010 show, one that features a glasses-free 3D display.
A gaming UI company called Scaleform was showing off the prototype, which was built by Master Image and runs on a Nvidia Tegra 2 processor.
The device runs on the Android mobile OS.
Androidanme says the visual display was very impressive and that a device using the screen and features could be available as soon as the Q2 2011.
