Sony Xperia Play Officially Announced

Sony Ericsson today announced the Xperia Play along with a bunch of other Xperia branded handsets at their on-going event in MWC, Barcelona. The handset is powered by a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor with the Adreno 205 GPU core handling the graphics department.

The handset sports a 4-inch LCD with a resolution of 854×480. The Xperia Play is a "PlayStation Certified" handset and runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread with Sony’s custom UI on top of it.


As evident from the picture above, the Play will sport a slide-out gamepad to fulfill all your on-the-move gaming needs. The Xperia Play will come pre-loaded with one PlayStation game and will start shipping in March.