While the PSP might have sold better, the Xperia Play was my favorite Sony handheld, and I think that the form factor is due ...

Sony has quietly dropped the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play from the list of phones set to upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor.

Sony's Xperia Play was ahead of its time, combing smartphone hardware and a PSP-style controller. Handheld gaming devices are popular now after the success of the Nintendo Switch, to the point ...

Sony’s gaming pedigree should have been an instant win with the Xperia Play 2, but unfortunately, it was a short-lived experiment that feels more valid in 2020 than upon launch.

The XPERIA Play runs Android 2.3.2 Gingerbread, on top of which is Sony Ericsson's custom UI; however, the company tells us that they've been careful this time around not to cement the two ...

We've seen plenty of the upcoming Sony Xperia Play phone, otherwise known as the PlayStation phone--but very little so far of its gaming capabilities.

If Sony takes another go at the Xperia Play, it needs to make sure its phone can be bought by people on any of the big 4 wireless carriers — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon — and that it’s ...

The Sony Xperia PLAY is launching worldwide, but in the U.S. the device will land on Verizon. The Sony Xperia PLAY is best known as a PlayStation phone because it will […] ...

The Xperia Play from Sony Ericsson doesn't yet have a release date, but we got a chance to check out "the PlayStation phone" at GDC 2011, and walked away impressed.

Sony Ericsson launched the Xperia Play back in 2011, making for one of the coolest smartphone ideas yet. The phone packed a slide-out gamepad, shoulder buttons, and access to PlayStation titles.

Though the Sony Xperia Z3 is only a subtle upgrade over its predecessors, it brings with it a killer feature—the ability to remote-play PlayStation 4 games. But first, the handset itself. A 5.2 ...

Sony Ericsson has officially launched the XPERIA Play, its PlayStation gaming phone, at MWC 2011.As we've already seen well previewed, the XPERIA Play has a slide-out gaming keypad behind a 4-inch ...