We're barely 12 hours away from what's expected to be the PSP2 unveiling in Tokyo, and now comes a big, juicy video preview of yet another new PlayStation handheld: the long-rumored, Android-powered Xperia Play, a.k.a. the PlayStation phone.
Leaked photos and videos of the Sony Ericsson-built Xperia Play have come in dribs and drabs over the past weeks and months, but now Engadget has a lengthy preview of a prototype device, along with a razor-sharp hands-on video. Given all that, I think it's safe to say that the "rumored" PlayStation phone has pretty much become fact.
But while the Engadget bloggers poked and prodded every nook and cranny of the Xperia Play, their prototype handset lacked a needed application for downloading new PlayStation games, while the included PlayStation Pocket app was disappointingly empty.
In other words, we're still waiting to see what newly designed portable PlayStation games on the Xperia Play will look like (although Engadget did manage to port over some old PS and GameBoy Advance titles to the handheld).
Also still unclear: the exact processor that will be powering the phone, with earlier rumors pointing to a Qualcomm single-core MSM8655 and Adreno 205 GPU combo.
That said, Engadget confirmed that the Xperia Play will be running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, complete with 512MB of RAM, a microSD memory card slot, and a rear-facing five-megapixel camera (which took "sharp" and "vibrant" pictures).
As we've seen in earlier leaked photos and videos, the phone boasts slide-out gaming controls, including a D-pad, the familiar quartet of PlayStation buttons on the right-hand side, and a pair of touchpads that presumably act as virtual joysticks.
Along the "top" edge of the phone (when you're holding it in a landscape orientation, anyway): dual triggers, similar to a PlayStation DualShock controller—although apparently only one per side rather than two, according to Engadget.
Now that the cat is totally out of the bag, it'll be interesting to see if Sony executives make any mention of the Xperia Play during Thursday's press event; if not, the phone is widely expected to be announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month.
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