The folks at Sony Ericsson have engaged in the sort of experimentation that got Victor Frankenstein in trouble. They have combined a phone and a PlayStation-style keypad to create a gaming phone. Here you may imagine an evil laugh and crash of thunder if you wish.
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is a slide-out phone, but it replaces the keyboard typically on the slide out with a Playstation-style game controller, including the familiar four-button keypads.
The phone comes with six games already on it, including Madden NFL 11, Bruce Lee and The Sims 3. Other games can be purchased through through Verizon’s V Cast service or the Android Market. The price of games that are optimized for the phone are mostly $3 to $5, but range up to $12 for a game like Dungeon Defenders: Second Wave.
This 3G Frankenphone runs Android’s 2.3 operating system, which includes Flash animation, a 4-inch touchscreen and 1GHz Snapdragon II processor.
It ran the installed games smoothly and rendered them well, although the biggest challenge in some games is reading the instructions in fine type, which are minuscule on a 4-inch screen.
As an Android phone, it is easy to sync with Google programs like Gmail, contacts and calendar. It also works as a hotspot, so you can use it to connect other devices to the Internet over Wi-Fi.
There is a 5-megapixel camera on the back with an LED flash, and a VGA camera on the front for video chats.
The phone, now available, is $200 with a new two-year contract through Verizon Wireless. You can spot the stores by the crowds of peasants with torches and pitchforks.
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