Sony Ericsson Xperia Play R800i Specifications
Product Features:
| 3G: Yes | Wifi: Yes | Camera: 5 MP with flash |
| Display: 4 inches | Touch: Yes, Capacitive | Memory Card: upto 32 GB |
| Music Player: Yes | OS: Android | FM Radio: No |
Product Review:
- Great range of games
- Excellent Xperia Games launcher
- Smooth, fast Android experience
- Controller is well-designed
- Decent battery life
- CPU and GPU not the best there is
- Display has relatively poor viewing angles
- Phone is a bit big for one-handed use
Quick Specifications
See Full Specifications- General:
- Android, v2.3.3
- Display:
- Touch (Capacitive)
- 4 inches
- 480 x 854 pixels
- Camera:
- 5 MP
- AutoFocus
- Flash
- Video Recording
- Video Calling
- Technical:
- 400 MB Inbuilt Memory
- Memory Card Support, upto 32 GB
- 512 MB RAM
- 1 GHz Processor
- Connectivity:
- 3G
- WiFi with hotspot
- Bluetooth
- GPS
- DLNA
- Extra:
- Music Player
- Video Player
- 3.5 mm Headphone
Advantages
Display In Groups| Display | |
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Has A Responsive Touch Screen
Capacitive, MultiTouch
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Touch Displays offer a more interactive experience. |
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Quite Big Screen
4 inches
(Average: 4.85 inches)
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Reading, browsing internet and watching videos is more pleasing experience on a bigger screen. |
| Camera | |
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Has Camera
5 MP with AutoFocus
(Average: 6.3 MP)
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Has a camera for taking photos. |
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Has Flash For Camera
LED
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Having a camera flash allows you to take photos in low light. |
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Has Front Camera
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Front Camera enables you to take your own photos and do videocalling (on supported phones). |
| Technical | |
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Supports Memory Card
upto 32 GB
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Memory cards give your device more storage capacity. So you can store more songs, photos and videos. |
| Connectivity | |
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Supports 3G
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3G Enabled Handsets give you more download speed and a faster internet experience. |
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Faster Download Speed
7.2 Mbps
(Average: 15.2 Mbps)
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Faster Download Speed means stream videos at real time. |
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Supports WiFi
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You can connect to wifi hotspots in your area to experience a superior internet experience. |
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Supports WiFi Hotspot
Wifi Tethering
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Allows you to use your mobile internet connection on your wifi enabled laptop. |
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Supports Bluetooth v2.1
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Bluetooth enables you to wirelessly listen to music and calls using bluetooth headsets. |
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Supports GPS
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GPS is used for determining your location. You can get directions to a place with the help of GPS. |
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Supports DLNA
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DLNA standard enables easy sharing of music, photos, and videos over wifi. You can stream video from your DLNA phone to your DLNA TV via WiFi. |
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Has A 3.5mm Headphone Jack
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Having 3.5mm Jack enables you to connect to large number of other devices (such as speakers) having 3.5mm Port. |
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Has Accelerometer
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Detects motion as well as the orientation of a device (horizontally or vertically). |
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Has Compass
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Determines direction facing relative to North, East, West and South. |
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Supports Video Player
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Watch your favourite video songs and movies in video player. It supports MPEG4 file types. |
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Supports Music Player
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Listen to your favourite songs in music player. It supports MP3, AAC etc. file types. |
| Battery | |
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Long Battery Standby Time
17.7 days
(Average: 18 days)
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With long battery standby time, mobile phone battery can last more days without charging in idle condition. |
Disadvantages
Display In Groups| General | |
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Thick
16 mm
(Average: 11 mm)
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Slider phones are generally thick. |
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Heavy Weight
175 g
(Average: 206 g)
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Holding Heavy weight mobiles for long time will make your arms tired. |
| Display | |
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Doesn't Use OLED Display
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OLED Displays have faster response times, better viewing angles, improved contrast and consume less bettery power. |
| Technical | |
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Limited Storage Capacity
400 MB
(Average: 12 GB)
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Considering this phone's level of use, it has less amount of memory to store songs, videos, photos and applications. |
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Fewer Processing Cores
1 Core
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More cores result in better parallelism, meaning more tasks can be processed in parallel without slowing down the User Interface. |
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Relatively Small RAM
512 MB
(Average: 750.1 MB)
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It has relatively smaller RAM than the other phones in this price range. You can get more RAM than this. |
| Connectivity | |
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Can't Output To TV
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You can't connect your smartphone to a TV. |
| Extra | |
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Doesn't Have A Gyroscope
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Gyroscope Determines orientation and rotation and provides more accurate 3D motion tracking than an accelerometer. |
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Doesn't Have A FM Radio
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You Can't Listen to your favourite radio stations on your phone. |
| Battery | |
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Short Battery Talk Time
8.4 hours
(Average: 9.4 hours)
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With short battery talk time, you won't be able to talk continously on the phone for a long period of time without charging. |
Full Specifications
Report An Error| General | |
| Sim Type: | GSM |
| Dual Sim: | No |
| Device Type: | Smartphone |
| Release Date: | February, 2011 |
| Design | |
| Dimensions: | 119 x 62 x 16 mm |
| Weight: | 175 g |
| Form Factor: | Slider |
| Display | |
| Type: | Color TFT screen, 16M colors |
| Touch: | Yes, Capacitive with Multitouch |
| Size: | 4 inches, 480 x 854 pixels |
| Memory | |
| Phonebook: | Unlimited |
| Internal: | 400 MB inbuilt, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM |
| Card Slot: | Yes, upto 32 GB, 8 GB included |
| Connectivity | |
| GPRS: | Yes |
| EDGE: | Yes |
| 3G: | Yes, 7.2 Mbps Download, 5.76 Mbps Upload |
| Wifi: | Yes, with wifi-hotspot |
| Bluetooth: | Yes, v2.1 |
| USB: | Yes, microUSB v2.0 |
| USB Features: | USB Tethering, USB Charging, Mass Storage |
| Extra | |
| GPS: | Yes, with A-GPS Support |
| Sensors: | Accelerometer, Compass |
| 3.5mm Headphone Jack: | Yes |
| Extra: | DLNA |
| Camera | |
| Camera: | Yes, 5 MP with autofocus |
| Features: | Image stabilizer, Geo tagging |
| Video Recording: | Yes, 800 x 480 pixels @ 30fps |
| Flash: | 1 Flash |
| Front Camera: | Yes, supports video calling |
| Technical | |
| OS: | Android, v2.3.3 |
| CPU: | 1 GHz, Scorpion ARMv7 Processor |
| Browser: | Yes, supports HTML/Flash |
| Multimedia | |
| Supports: | MMS, Instant Messanging, Voice Recording, Calendar, YouTube Player |
| Email: | Yes |
| Music: | MP3, AAC |
| Video: | MPEG4 |
| Document Reader: | Yes |
| Social Networking: | Facebook, Twitter |
| Battery | |
| Size: | 1500 mAH, Li-ion Battery |
| Standby time: | 425 hours, 413 hours on 3G |
| Talk time: | 505 minutes, 385 minutes on 3G |
| Music Playback time: | 1860 minutes |
Lets get one thing straight here. The XPERIA Play is a gaming droid and you shouldnt get hung up on the less than stellar video and single-core-only CPU. It wasnt meant to be the flagship in the XPERIA lineup its up to the Arc to shoulder the responsibility.
But life is never this simple. If youre paying so much you might as well want your phone to do other things too. The Play is half smartphone, half-PSP Go and its got the gamepad to prove it. Its exactly the gamepad though that you need to be absolutely sure about. read more →
- Side-slider with dedicated gaming controls
- Quad-band GSM /GPRS/EDGE support
- 3G with HSDPA and HSUPA
- 4.0" 16M-color capacitive LED-backlit LCD touchscreen of FWVGA resolution (480 x 854 pixels)
- Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread
- CPU and GPU not the best there is
- Display has relatively poor viewing angles
- Phone is a bit big for one-handed use
- Video recording maxes out at WVGA resolution
- No FM radio
We've reached out to Sony Ericsson asking for a roadmap of when we can expect the PlayStation Suite and more PlayStation One titles to roll up on the Xperia Play bandwagon and make it worth joining. As it stands today, on the day of review and the precipice of its launch, the Play is looking out on a pretty barren gaming landscape. The Android titles up for grabs are not exclusive to the device and don't necessarily benefit all that greatly from its unique control scheme, whereas the catalog of classic PlayStation content stops after just one entry. read more →
- Gamepad works well
- Stereo speakers
- Good graphics performance
- Dim, woeful screen
- Lack of compelling content
- Poor video recording (no 720p)
The Android-based Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is a unique phone designed for gaming, and it games well. read more →
- Gamepad is a terrific way to play
- Latest version of Android
- Overall solid specs.
Much of what ails the Xperia Play could be fixed with time and care. As it stands, however, we reckon you could do better for your money. The Xperia Play is too pricey for casual gaming, while we'd suggest serious gamers would be better served by picking up a full-on mobile console. Sony fans have the NGP to look forward too, and we'd seriously recommend the 3DS hardware as an alternative.
What's important is whether you can live with the Xperia Play as your everyday phone and if it's a sound investment of your hard-earned cash. read more →
- Pleasant feel to button presses
- Attractive chassis
- Strong speakers
- Decent music player
- Overpriced
- Poor game selection
- Laggy browser
- Hard to get comfortable grip
- Weighty
From our time spent gaming on the device we have to say the company is mostly right about it, the battery didn’t drain for 2-3 hours, as we expected, but on the simpler titles. With more sophisticated 3D titles the toll on the battery life is significant. In the end it’s still an Android smartphone that has to be charged daily, don’t even doubt it. In the end, we have to give Sony Ericsson Xperia Play the benefit of the doubt. read more →
- Dedicated game controller
- Able to run numerous old emulator games with gamepad key-mapping
- Excellent stereo loudspeakers
- Very good photo quality
- Not future-proof due to the single-core chipset
- Game catalog still in its nascence
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