Sony Ericsson officially announced the gaming smartphone Xperia Play

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After several years of expectations, aspirations and hopes, users finally waited for the first gaming smartphone Sony Ericsson - Xperia Play. Presentation of the new smartphone was held on Sunday evening, the eve of the Mobile World Congress 2011.

The official announcement confirmed rumors that the smartphone is based on single-chip platform, Qualcomm Snapdragon, the CPU is running at 1 GHz. As for GPU - a very important component for a gaming device, is Adreno 205, capable of delivering up to 60 frames per second in games. The device is endowed with 400 MB of internal memory and has slot for microSD memory cards up to 32 GB (8 GB card included in delivery). Capacitive touch screen of Xperia Play, supports multi touch, diagonal is 4 inches and resolution - 854 x 480 pixels.

Novelty is equipped with sliding keyboard in the form of two game controllers (as in the PlayStation Portable), two game buttons are placed on one of the sidewalls of the enclosure. The smartphone is equipped with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, GPS receiver, a 3.5 mm jack for headphones and a port Micro USB, which is used for charging and data synchronization. Resolution of the rear camera is 5 megapixel. It is equipped with flash, autofocus system and allows you to focus fingertip on the screen. Running new operating system Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

Games for Xperia Play will develop by the following companies: Sony Computer Entertainment, Digital Chocolate, Digital Legends, Electronic Arts, Fishlabs, Gamehouse, Gameloft, Glu Mobile, Handy Games, Namco Bandai Networks, Polarbit, PopCap, Trendy Entertainment. In addition, developers have reported that the Xperia Play will be ported to video games available for the PlayStation One.

Dimensions of the device is 119 x 62 x 16 mm, weight is 175 grams. The smartphone will go on sale in March in two colors - black and white. Price will be announced later.