Sony’s starting to make good on its promise of bringing Ice Cream Sandwich to a vast majority of its mobile line-up. Next in the running is the diminutive Sony Xperia Mini Pro, but there’s a serious question: how come this tiny thing can run Android 4.0 and the Xperia Play can’t? Read more
Oh dear. Yesterday we reported that the Sony Xperia Play had seemed to have fallen off the back of the Sony Ice Cream Sandwich wagon. Now Sony’s made the official announcement: the Playstation Phone won’t be joining the Android 4.0 party. Ever. Why not? Read on to find out… Read more
Blimey. After a concerted effort to right its wrongs has had us retracting our previously harsh words about Sony and its Android updates, things are all starting to unravel once again. A bagful of Sony Ericsson handsets are still destined for an Android 4.0 upgrade, but has the Xperia Play just fallen off the wagon? Read more
The Samsung Galaxy S2 has been the talk of the ICS town this week, but that’s not where Android 4.0 starts and ends. Far from it: even the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is getting in on the action now. A developer ROM of the update for the gaming goliath has just left the gates. But there’s a catch… Read more
After months of peddling a pretty lame offering on its Playstation Suite certified devices, Sony has finally started paying attention to the PS Vita’s underling. Bored of playing Crash Bandicoot? Fret not: Sony’s launching an open SDK to allow developers to bring Playstation-branded games to Android devices in their droves. Read more
Android 15, iPhone love. Sega has just announced that its flagship sports title Virtua Tennis will be heading to Android, with a first preview next week at CES in Las Vegas. It’s been designed with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play’s controls in mind, and been optimized for phones with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, typically used by both Sony Ericsson and HTC.
Sony Ericsson’s Xperia PLAY, otherwise known as the Playstation Phone, has won itself exclusive rights to FIFA 12 on Android today, as the game’s launched for free on the sliding handset. After a drastic PAYG price-drop, is it a desperate bid to boost handset sales? Read more
The world’s first PlayStation certified smartphone has locked horns with the number one sports franchise on the planet. This holiday season the Xperia Play will have first dibs at FIFA 12 thanks to a “limited time exclusive agreement”. All other Android devices will have to sit on the sidelines and wait until the general release on February 21, 2012. But wait, that’s not all.
