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hey guys sixteen here with a review of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play 4G smartphone now this phone also known as the playstation phone was late to rumoured well before it came out and this is going to be the AT&T 4G version that came out about a week or two ago let's go ahead and start you guys that with a quick tour around the phone up front you'll find a 4-inch 8 480 by 854 pixel display and the display is really nice it's got great viewing angles I'm not actually guys can probably tell pretty well on the camera out there but it's got great viewing angles and its really nice clear crisp vibrant all that kind of stuff for gaming as I should really impressed I also like the 4-inch size I think it's a good size for a smartphone or doesn't have to be enormous in your pocket but of course you still have plenty of real estate for all your games and that kind of thing up front here you guys will find the front-facing VGA camera front-facing camera it's not really anything particularly amazing and on the bottom here you guys will find that it does have before Android buttons back home menu and search over here on the back you'll find the 3.5 milimeter headset jack along with a USB and a whole lot over here and if I flip the phone over this way you guys to be able to the LNR buttons for gaming they're not really that great I will say they're not a little action in the motion on them is not quite that great but it's nice to have those buttons of course for all kinds of gaming over here you will find the volume rocker which is kind of a weird spot when you look at from this angle but you know when you're doing the volume from the side of the phone makes plenty of sense up front here you guys will find the sleep/wake button and around on the back here you will find the five megapixel rear facing camera with LED flash and of course that's all fine and good but the whole point is a playstation phone is to have playstation controls as soon as you guys can see here it has some pretty nice controls so if you guys have ever seen a PSP go it's kind of similarly laid out you have of course your d-pad your standard PlayStation buttons now these are two virtual joysticks now get into you know how the game performances and everything in just a little bit but yeah it's a pretty nice setup and of course you to have your select start and your mini buttons as far as the software in the phone goes it runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread with a custom sony ericsson layout so for example you can see here that you can scroll through your tweets your facebook mansions all that kind of stuff get to the phone I mean kind of course also just swipe through and let's say we want to I don't know change the wallpaper but a pic a new wallpaper here so that's looks nice so we can just pick this out and of course just like any Android phone it has all the customization and everything that you would expect now over here there are some new applications that do come with it and one of the big ones is the PlayStation or rather the Xperia Play games so on this you can find that there are several games that come with it so for example there's the sims you'll be able to play Madden 11 asphalt 6 so definitely some decent games that come with it you can also pick up quite a few so if I scroll over here you guys are fine you pick up minecraft minecraft is a great game on this I've done a previous video on some of the gaming so if you guys are interested in that you can check it out but overall the gaming it's the library is not too bad of course a lot of these Android games are available for many other platforms just optimized for the physical controls um however one problem I had was it the amount of games just isn't that great I mean there are definitely some games and you know they're not bad but a lot of the games on Android Market are still you know touch based and while they works fine it kind of seems like a little bit of a waste but not a huge deal another important app is the PlayStation pocket 1 now what this is all about is giving you PlayStation 1 games you can almost think of it as the PlayStation 1 emulator I know by default it does come crash bandicoot however you can download a couple of other games when I say a couple I mean a couple this is all you get is what 5 games in here now these games are pretty reasonably priced so you mean sound like you have to pay a ton of money to play them but overall there's definitely just not that much content that's a little bit of a problem for me out if you get a get up you know phone it's all about gaming you really expect to have lots and lots of games available however that's not really the case you know you know 6 dollars for the ps1 game is not that bad it's just not really what I was expecting now powering this is a 1 gigahertz Snapdragon processor now it is only single core which is a little bit out of place in this world of dual-core processors however it's not all that bad in general UI things so you want to scroll out here we can swipe and scroll and whoever we want and it really is no lag in the UI so some of the features that you do have or of course you have some pre-built apps so for example the Kindle app and to be honest 4-inch display I can actually probably do some reading it's not all that bad some of the other apps of course you have your camera your context all I kind of you know standard boring kind of stuff there's nothing really to jumps out of course you have Gmail and you know pretty much the entire normal suite of applications that you do find on Android phones and of course you do have access to the Android Market so if you're interested in more applications which I'm sure you will be you can certainly go ahead and download all you like from here one great feature is the soft keyboard now it's a little bit weird for me at least to have a you know phone that has slide-out something that's not a keyboard I found myself trying to open the keyboard up a couple of times but on the side of it the software keyboard is great so you do a lot of typing and whatnot so just go to up smack all this out here and go ahead and open up a website for you guys and give you a little demo of how it works it is only a single core processor like I said so it's not going to be blazing fast or anything but it's certainly not half bad now there is one problem I did notice and you guys will see it right down there this is annoying to me I don't know it's just like I know it's nice to be able to zoom in stuff but this has multi-touch I can do that without the zoom slider so I think it's a little bit silly to have nine huge deal or anything but it is a little bit of an annoyance now another really nice feature is the camera app now the camera app is pretty standard so you can see me hello uh-huh but of course there's some new options or not rather new but there's some pretty decent options so we switch over to the back facing camera as be able to see I can now rotate and everything no problem there are quite a few options so for example you can put it in macro mode the exposure scene modes picture size is quite a bit that you can do with it I also turn on location white balance and all that kind of stuff as well as flash now over all the pictures are decent now they're not going to be anything spectacular but it does have a decent macro mode like I said and it's not half bad front-facing camera is a front-facing cameras nothing going to be that particularly amazing as far as video goes it does only shoot 480p and it's okay I mean it's nothing spectacular but it's nothing you know going to be horrible I mean if you need a quick shot you can certainly do that as far as call quality goes does not have bad of course this is an AT&T phone and that's really going to depend on how services in your air yeah but my testing I found that it really picks up signal just as well as any other ATT phone that I've ever reviewed no real problems there and of course it does have the HSPA+ network aka AT&T 4G data speeds do not have that now I do live in a pretty poor area of AT&T service so I really never able to get that good of speeds but of course it's all going to depend on how the speeds are in your area so if you if you have good ATT service you can't expect somewhere in the neighborhood for my testing of around one to two kilobits rather megabits per second down pelvics that would be bad anyway guys it's gonna be about it for my review of the Xperia Play 4G overall I'm a little torn on this one on the one hand for $50 it's a long contract it's a really solid phone and of course you do have all the PlayStation functionality and there should be some more content coming soon we haven't really seen it yet but there should be a lot of cool stuff on the way soon on the other hand though there are some problems that I have with full-width wholeheartedly recommending it first of which it's pretty fat um it's kind of hard to get a good idea but I mean it's it's a kind of a fat phone and while I can understand I mean you know the sliding mechanism is really really nice you don't have to really worry about it too much at all but um it does add some pretty nice bolt to it and I know it's it's it's not too bad by most standards but considering it's 2011 there are a lot of much thinner phones on the market um speaking of it being 2011 a single core processor is I mean it's not laggy or slow but consider this the PlayStation Vita will be coming out in the next few months it's going to have a quad core processor this is only got single core so it's kind of already a little bit outdated as far as the games go um which is a bit of a worry for me I don't think it's a deal-breaker but it is something to keep in mind so overall if you do really do a lot of gaming you really like having something like the touch pad it is a nice feature it definitely is but if you're just looking for a normal phone if you're a you're not into gaming I don't really recommend this this is really for someone who's into gaming and wants to get a fairly cheap phone on AT&T and again it's gonna be about it for my review if you enjoyed definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe