Aprils 1st will not see the release of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play on UK carrier O2. The much awaited PlayStation Phone which was announced back in February at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona apparently has a few minor yet critical issues according to O2: “As the head of O2’s device testing team, my team and I see every phone that O2 will be selling before it goes on sale. Our job, as I mentioned in my last blog post, is to make sure these phones are ready for our...

Sony kicked off their MWC celebrations with a bang by officially announcing the Xperia Play (aka: “Playstation Phone”) Featuring a 4″ 480 x 854 display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor + Adreno GPU, 512MB of RAM, and 5-megapixel camera, the Xperia Play is meant to turn heads. While we would have personally liked to see SE go one further than the competition spec-wise, we can’t dismiss the power on hand. Add in a capable OS — Android 2.3...

On a slightly happier note than Sony Ericsson needlessly abandoning their X10/Mini/Mini Pro Android phones comes the revealing of some very official looking Xperia Playstation Phone images. Chinese tech blog it168 went through meticulously previewed the phone giving us the images you’ll see inside after the jump as well as a slew of specs: 1GHz Snapdragon processor, Qualcomm Adreno 205 graphics processor, 512 MB of RAM and ROM (each), 4″ 854 x 480 display,...

Being an early adopter of technology comes with numerous risks. The manufacturers drive to release the perfect product usually means a quick refresh as a second generation product is quickly released to fix the first generation’s mistakes. In the smartphone world, many of those advancements aren’t pushed downwards to older hardware. Though our definition of “old” varies considerably from a manufacturers standpoint. On that note, it is with great...

While Sony may routinely wow us with flashy, stylish phones fraught with delays and overall mediocrity when they finally do arrive, every time we see a new device leaked we’re like mosquitoes to those buzzing, life altering lights. So when new images of a Sony Xperia Mini Pro replacement surface, we’re naturally interested. For now, this phone doesn’t have a name. What we do know, however, is that it packs a 3-inch 320 x 480 multitouch display, a 1GHz...