Another touch screen smart phone hits the market, with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. With all the hype and demand for smart phones, apps and what not, this phone now integrates gaming into the equation. It's more or less the "Playstation Phone" so says CNET. The interface is similar to the dualshock controller from Sony Playstation except with two touch pads instead of joysticks. It's fair to say that this attracts the gaming customer base when Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds just got boring at some point in time. This is just going to be more competition others such as the iPhone and will act as a substitute. I can see this becoming a threat later.
The Xperia Play also has a 5.1-megapixel camera with autofocus, a flash, image stabilization, geotagging, and video recording. Other features include Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, a personal organizer, a speakerphone, Assisted-GPS, messaging and e-mail, 400MB of internal memory, Sony Ericsson's Timescape interface, a music player, and a full HTML browser with Flash Lite. It also supports the usual Google apps and you can download additional titles from the Android Market.
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This phone proves a hypothesis I have had for a while. Smart Phones were not purely created for business people and people who want more in their phone. These phones have been created also as a more broad base of usage, that of connectivity and entertainment. The iPhone first real hint at this, and with the Sony Ericsson Play entering the market soon I could even prospectively see the disappearance of dedicated handheld gaming consoles such as the PSP and maybe the Gameboy. This is the same thing as the internet and Tv's, these two pieces of technology are slowly becoming one unit. At current actual television could disappear and all entertainment be streamed off the internet. Both Smart phones and Televisions are becoming extremely adapt to multi-tasking. One is becoming a highly compact and has a high performance and the other is becoming a major source of entertainment both from Tv programing and as an internet platform. This just shows that many people are tired of needing so many devices to do everything are desiring platforms that can do more.
How will this gaming phone affect the cell phone and gaming markets? Will the government institute a regulation (if so what kind)? This has the potential to re-revolutionize the world.
If this gaming phone gets more advanced the PSP and handheld gaming market will most likely go down. Everyone wants something easier with and costs them less money. If there is a cell phone that can also be used for gaming that rivals just handheld gaming consoles then, people will go for the one that is two in one. This is pretty much what Matt says. I don't see the government putting a regulation on this just yet. If there were to be one, it would be a kind of regulation not to monopolize the handheld gaming markets or something of that matter.
I'm sorry I just can't see this becoming a threat to the Iphone anytime soon. If I wanted to play a Playstation game such as NCAA Football 2011 I would play it on a 65 inch HD Television not a 3 inch phone screen. The idea sounds great but in reality it's just ridiculous. Iphone games are specific to the Iphone, I guess the Playstation Phone will have it's own games but I just don't think they can compete with the Iphone app strategy. Also how does it look when your at a business meeting and you whip out your Playstation Phone? I wouldn't recommend it.
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