The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has the social superpowers to tame your chaotic and unruly relationships. Its secret weapon is TimeScape, an ingenious piece of software which pulls together the unruly strands of your mobile life into one easily managed data stream. Read on to discover how it can change the way you use your phone.
A time and place for everything
You know the feeling: you’re busy at work trying to keep the people of your fair city safe and sound, and you discover with some sense of dissatisfaction that you don’t have time to post to Twitter or update your Facebook status. Alas, the existence of a tireless upholder of justice is a thankless one.
Fortunately, overworked superheroes can rely on the Xperia Play and its groundbreaking TimeScape functionality. It’s a powerful tool, but what it does is easy to describe. Think of your social network: all of the apps you use, the text messages you send and the phone calls you receive. Staying on top of this flood of information is harder than trying to get the Thing into a pair of skinny-fit jeans, and all too often we’re dazzled by the sheer volume of traffic we face.
That’s where the Xperia Play’s TimeScape application comes in. Instead of forcing you to jump between apps in order to keep things it order, it draws together all of your vital communication in one place. You can read Tweets from your Twitter timeline, stay up to date on your friend’s Facebook updates, post to both services simultaneously and even keep an eye on SMS chatter. TimeScape also keeps track of any missed calls you might have had while you were saving that busload of children from certain doom.
Filter frenzy
Of course, even in this condensed format, your superhero social life can get a little overwhelming. Mercifully, TimeScape allows you to filter through your stream of data on your Xperia Play to locate the most pressing items of information, such as text messages from your most vital allies (or ransom demands from hated rivals).
The ability to laser focus on the messages and items that are of the most importance prevents you from being distracted by stuff that is non-urgent, giving you more time to focus on more the things that truly matter, like, oh say, enjoying PlayStation games on the Xperia Play’s gamepad.
Aesthetic overhaul
TimeScape has morphed in the way it looks since its debut last year. The entire widget has been retrained and retooled to make it a lean, mean social networking machine, capable of dishing out all of the vital information you require on a daily basis. With this handy weapon, you’re armed with everything you need to conquer your chaotic world of communication.
It doesn’t end there, though. Those boffins at Sony Ericsson’s top-secret lab have been busy with other time-saving ideas. You can simply pinch on the homescreen to see all your widgets in one overview, then tap the one you need next, and the Xperia Play even intelligently creates folders of apps: just drop one into another and they’ll appear as one folder. Try it with all your social networking and instant messaging apps, and you’ll instantly remove the confusion and clutter that usually accompanies smartphone screens.
Like some kind of mind-reading genius, TimeScape can be configured to offer up the data you need, making everything no more than a finger-touch away. Every superhero needs a secret weapon and in the case of the Xperia Play, TimeScape is a game-winning proposition.
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