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[Xperia Play General] Nabeel_Nabs:
Most of the games you can get on the play you can play on any other android device. If you want the play as a solid gaming device, you're better off with the vita.If you want the play for its physical controls on the move go for it. Specs wise it sucks and is bulky compared to the newer options which as mentioned are more expensive.
[Xperia Play General] TLRtheory:
I'd have to say yes.

All the analysts that said Xperia PLAY would fail to run future generation software are eating their own statements now as Xperia PLAY continues to beast the newest software there is with consistent 30-60FPS and high detail.

No other phone has as many games compatible with it's physical controller as the Xperia PLAY does, and Xperia PLAY's game software support is just getting better and better every day.

I too thought that the Vita would break me away from the Xperia PLAY. It's a nice handheld, but right now Sony's making a lot of mistakes with the Vita that currently causes Xperia PLAY's options to be far more enticing.

I see dual cores, I see quad cores, beastly screens, 3D screens and all kinds of things on newer phones... but when you see Shadowgun on the Xperia PLAY running just as nicely as it does on the Atrix, Galaxy S2 and GNex, you soon learn that there's currently no reason for all that.
[Xperia Play General] Potato13:
I read Adreno 220 the first time. Sorry. But even then I think a dual core phone with more ram would be better. Dual core just increases performance so much.

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Just because one game is optimized to run better on an older phone, that doesn't mean that there's, "No reason for all that". The performance in everything else is a lot better with those phones. The only thing that I will miss about the Xperia play when I get my next phone is the gamepad.
[Xperia Play General] Erikwithafro:
If you enjoy casual gaming in any way, as well as emulating the old classics, this is the phone for you. If just you like having a phone that works really well, this is still the phone to get. It runs great as a phone and you have the option to use the physical buttons to play games on it. I don't understand how anyone wouldn't want that. Then again, I'm a gamer to the core, so my judgement is lopsided hah.
[Xperia Play General] Logseman:
If you're looking for a powerful beast, the Play isn't there any longer. But the Play is future proof because in 5 years, the Play will keep being at least a portable emulator which can handle anything below N64 with nice controls.

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[Xperia Play General] cell128:
I just picked one up for 90$ on eBay and am really liking it other than the fact that it seems to have a weak signal compared to my iPhone 4 and drops 3g quite frequently on Verizon. I'm beating all the gba castlevania games at the moment and some Zelda ocarina of time. Any good suggestions?
[Xperia Play General] - Swift -:
Sorry to but in but,

I'm getting the Play in 12 days upgrading from an Xperia 8 and to me, this seems like a good upgrade.

What di you guys think? The Play is €229 here, is there any other phone that is that price and better than the Play?

Thanks in advance :)
[Xperia Play General] crono141:
Honestly, I'd wait to see if sony releases an XPlay2, or another phone with physical game pad. I think the phone has sold well enough to justify another iteration with more beefy specs (the afore-mentioned dual or quadcore, more internal space, and more ram).

But if you're absolutely desperate for a new phone, I'd get this one.
[Xperia Play General] - Swift -:
At this point, I think I'll be getting the First Gen Play because I highly doubt that Sony will come out with a new Play within the next 12 days :P

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[Xperia Play General] apprentice:
Great 2nd phone

I am a proud owner of a Samsung Galaxy Note, huge AMOLED HD screen, powerful dual core yada yada yada.. I was looking to buy a PS Vita, I mean the Galaxy Note plays games extremely well but there's no getting away from a dedicated hardware game pad being ultimately better for portable gaming.. But Sony are asking too much for compulsory memory cards and the game titles are truly wallet rinsing.

In comes the next best thing the Xperia Play and nicely doubles as a second phone. (I am still scared of showing the Note too much - in public, always a risk of having it snatched!) So today I ordered the Xperia Play for a very reasonable £170 and I think will satisfy me for a while :)
[Xperia Play General] Rogue Leader:
IIRC Sony has basically said NO so far on an XPlay 2 of any sort. As far as is known its not in development at all, so it could be a looooong wait.
[Xperia Play General] tiagoSequeira:
I upgraded from X8 to Play, I wasn't expecting it but I found it for a very cheap 150€.

I'm very happy with it, it's a big evolution, specially the screen size. I thought the fisical controls wouldn't be very important to me since I never played very much on my X8, but it does make a difference, it's simply great.

My thoughts for you are: if your looking for a nice performance, great gamming, nice screen size (not the best luminosity out doors, but it works) and amazing sound (the best I heard on a smartphone) and you have low budget like I did, go for this. If you want a powerful phone with the most amazing screen, you use your camera a lot, a phone with better functionality to compete with the current beasts in the market, I'd buy an Xperia S (too bad I had no money for it) or Xperia P
[Xperia Play General] sufy1000:
I like the Xperia Play and i'm gonna be holding on to it until another one like that hits the market.

The Xperia Play is an all rounder for me. I can surf the net watch videos nice 4'' inch not the best but its not that bad and the gamepad is a plus for me :)

Oh and Ice Cream Sandwich will be released as well :D
[Xperia Play General] FrEcP:
Indeed same for me - I bought the play about a month ago - specs are still enugh for me - and as i dont own a psp,.. neither my old beloved gameboy - I LOVE IT

But if u dont wan to carry around several devices - and are not one of those I NEED THE BIGGEST FASTEST AND HIGHEST guys - GET IT

Best allround handy for me - if u love console games ;)

Hardware not too old - and nice and fluid - just a bit heavy :D

Btw - bought mine for 250€ - there are not many other similar hardware "speced" ( does it exist ;) ) handys at that price anyway....
[Xperia Play General] swebosdev:
The play will always be a good choice for the gamer on the go.

Thousands of classic games and a great phone with all the features you want in one.

Super specs in a phone are for the super hard core nerds who won't be happy until you need quantum cpu and a nuclear battery to make a phone call.
[Xperia Play General] sufy1000:
Haha im with you. For me I actually dont need a dual core phone at the moment. I'm happy with single core right now.
[Xperia Play General] CloudShepherd:
No one takes into consideration a Xperia s with dualshock controller?

sent from my Xperia PLAY using Taptalk
[Xperia Play General] RottenFoxBreath:
Nice and very handy to stick in your pocket, and play on the bus, or whatever. :confused:

Touchscreen gaming, sucks, fingers all over the screen.

The Play still kicks when it comes to games, and will do for a while yet.
[Xperia Play General] sufy1000:
Most definitely. Nothing can beat the gamepad on the Xperia Play and no one has even tried to compete with it and that's what makes the Xperia Play unique and different to other smartphones.

Get in there !
[Xperia Play General] jerses:
Im a new owner of a xperia play and had motorola xoom since day one. I can honestly say that its a lot better to play games via hardware buttons. It sucks playing with the touch screen because you block the screen so even with a tablet you are using 70% for gaming in phones...its like 50%.

I think phones are overpowered right now. We can run a ps2 game now! (gta3) with even better graphics. So i think you dont need a dual core phone with super huge screen to have a awsome phone. Because for regular apps even my g1 can handle them. My point is that devs need to start making good console quality games for phones or tablets. Every time i play dead space i wonder why no one is making this kind of games, true console experience port.
[Xperia Play General] TLRtheory:
See, that's a very big deal though.

By all means; I'm not trying to de-merit the other phones. I actually want to get a Note as a secondary phone, and regularly track the Galaxy S3. The only thing I want to make clear is that Xperia PLAY is no slacker.

The typical tech newb who thinks clock speed is everything always forgets about how many things can matter more than having tons of cores beefing up the spec sheet... and in doing so, they completely lose focus of the possibility (or rather, the reality) that Xperia PLAY is still running the newest of the new software flawlessly.

I don't even have anything to beef up my phone... plain old 2.3.4 stock... no chainfire, no OC'ing... and everything from UI navigation to web browsing, streaming and gaming are all seamless; even 60fps where it applies... the Galaxy S2, Atrix and G2x I regularly test on are definitely more powerful phones, but anyone seeing firsthand that the Xperia PLAY's alleged dinosaur specs can hang with the latest gens would ask what the point is of having all that power.

While the others' edges over the Xperia PLAY have reasonable facsimiles, the Xperia PLAY offers something that those do not have... and persist not to have even if you link a PS3 controller, iControlPad or Gametel Controller.
[Xperia Play General] neverwinter:
The funny thing is that you can only get so much for specs in a phone at one moment...you know? The specifications are always getting better...
[Xperia Play General] MegaBUD:
I bought mine used for 180$ can... i could have wait and maybe have one cheaper... but meh... its a great gaming phone... gamepad > faster phone...
[Xperia Play General] eksasol:
Well I have the international GSM version and its signal rating is generally 10dBm better than the Galaxy S variants. The WiFi antenna gets further just a few feet, and it has GLONASS as well. So I think the GSM version is great in term of signals.

With that said, the Galaxy S AMOLED screen destroys it. The screen on this thing is not acceptable at this day and age, in term of brightness and viewing angle, if this is fix, I would give the phone 5/5.

The main reason you're getting this device is for the gaming, particularly the classic games. As for newer 3D games support, it has no problem running RipTide and Asphalt 6. If gaming is not your intention get something else.

With that said, when the price for this phone falls and used ones gets nearer to $150, it's a great deal.
[Xperia Play General] Red_Kop:
A phone with gaming controls that emulates all my favourite consoles from days gone by...this thing will last me forever (or at least until it all falls apart and everything breaks:cool:)

Totally worth it.
[Xperia Play General] WebNavigator77:
My answer is Yes...

I will tell you my story...

I once had an ZTE mobile with a sucking WM7... On those days I installed a GameBoy emulator on ZTE to play Donkey Conk...

It took me few minutes to thought.... "How wonderful would it be to have a Cell Phone with physical gamepad on it?!"

I started to search on web and voilá... Saw informations about the xperia play development...

I bought it in the very first day that it became avaiable on my country. Even there, the specs was already to low... But I didn't care... I knew what I wanted...

A f#cking great pocket media center... I already could listen music, watch movies, navigate on web, everywhere with a single device... And now I could even play games with a confort that every player, a real player, deserve.

In the end it will depend on what kind of games you want to play. My favorites are the old school games, preferably 2d games, like R-Type, Another World... But even better games runs smooth... You must see Virtua Tennis, TinTin or ShadowGun on the xplay, fell it on the xplay, enjoy it on the xplay... And then, try it on another blasting specs cell phone without physical hardware... And you will thought... "What a crap playing like this.... No player should be tortured like this"...

One lack of the xplay is that it don't have an HDMI connection. Sometimes, i really wanted to play some games on tv... But even this could be finally over... Just search abou "Xbounds" on "Xperia Play Accessories Forum" or on youtube...

To conclude, actually I play more with Xperia Play than with my PS3 at home... And my PS3 have a superior specs... LOL
[Xperia Play General] crono141:
The only thing that would really make the xperia play a better phone would be a better screen, hdmi out, and more internal space. Everything else is fine.

Its too bad that motorola won't make an ICS phone with a gamepad. Xperia Play needs some competition in the handheld game/phone arena.

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Latest rumors I could dig up (from the end of february) say an xplay2 is in development and probably will launch sometime this year.

http://www.concept-phones.com/sony-ericsson/xperia-play-2-picture-jsus/

It is just a rumor though. Not sure how credible the rumor's source is either.
[Xperia Play General] talzer:
is the gps in this device working perfectly?
[Xperia Play General] crono141:
On stock, yes. On CM7.2, yes. On CM9, mostly.
[Xperia Play General] swebosdev:
The gps in the play is best in class
[Xperia Play General] - Swift -:
I'd be extremely pissed if a Play came out in June or something, :P

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[Xperia Play General] captain67:
Personally, I think it's only worth it if you wanna play a lot of emulated classics.

In my case, I got the phone for emulating nintendo games, and ended up using it more for internet and watching videos. My next phone will probably be something more suited to my anime addiction.

Sent from Asgard
[Xperia Play General] dejadragon:
I just order a new Xperia Play AT&T for $135. I don't even have a AT&T service, so I would mostly use it for playing all the emulated games. Hope that it's worth it. I think I should be able to resell it for 100 bucks or so if it is not up to the mark.
[Xperia Play General] eksasol:
To be honest, if its a slide out keyboard has the directional buttons arranged in circular pattern and the keys are smooth and not stiff, like this: http://st2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/htc/htc-status-1.jpg

It would be good enough for me for gaming. They never do that though, its always square pattern and on the right.
[Xperia Play General] cedie1001:
i own one.

it replace now my favorite psp hehehe :D

in terms of internal memory, use link2sd to convert you're system app to user, then install any app2sd on the market, or the supersail appsd, according to some, it is very good and efficient on managing internal memory

:D
[Xperia Play General] CrArc:
I just bought one, it turned up Wednesday. Was to replace an old phone (Dell Streak) which sadly I couldn't get working again. Got the Play cheap on eBay.

This little phone is great! Though its paper specs seem similar to the Streak's it's a faster device and does a better job at games and emulators. By no means the fastest device around, but not bad.

I've also surprised myself with how much gaming I've been doing on it. I underestimated how much better it is to have a gamepad when playing on a mobile phone - honestly, I bought the phone for phone related things, and I didn't think I'd play any games as I tended not to enjoy them on a touchscreen. So much for that!

So yeah, now I'm just agonising over whether I should unlock the bootloader and flash a nice rom with overclocking support or wait for some undetermined day in the future when Sony release their official ICS rom :/
[Xperia Play General] - Swift -:
Same story here....

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] tyler79durdan:
So this is the second casemate I got. One for the inspire, and the note... These cases are top notch. Fit form and function. I recommend this case to everyone. It really keeps the phone manageable and comfortable. For 20 bucks it protected my inspire throughout it's life with me and got me a good bounty when selling the device.

Tough case
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jshinn1:
Can you put up any pics with it on the Note curious how it looks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] xda1zero:
agree, excellent cases. just got one for sgs2, now going to get one for the note...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Phogg:
Forty bucks is a bit pricey.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] neevz:
I agree. Had a CM toughcase for my inspire and jumped right back to it for my note. My favorite case by far.
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[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tozneno:
let me explain you my story.

2 days ago my mailbox was hacked, that's a crap but that 's happend.

but i probably found what is wrong...

when i've got my brand new G note, i configure my mail account with the default mail app on it. i use the easy auto config of the app and that's all folks, it work.

but today when i save my new password from my mailbox restauration, in the mail app, i've saw something awesome, the auto config left my mail configuration with no security protocole from the begining !!!! ssl/tls was not ticked !!! nether for smtp nor for imap...

this bastard app left me naked.

is there someone had such problem once ?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T-0:
I had purchased a Galaxy S2 T989 and it came with a defective screen. The screen had some vertical lines and spots that were visible when the brightness was low, so I returned it for a refund.

After receiving my refund I went to amazon and purchased the GS2 GT-I9100 (international version) and I just received it yesterday, I was playing with it for a while and noticed that it also has some lines on the screen. It doesn't look as bad as the T989, you can barely see those lines when you set the brightness above 50%, but they are still there and that really bothers me because I paid $70 more just to get another phone with a faulty screen.

I don't know what to do with this phone, I still have 29 days to return it for a replacement, but I'm scared that they're gonna send me another faulty phone and if I return it for a refund they will charge me a restocking fee
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ogy77:
You are not alone,every galaxy have this spots,that is hardware bug and this is nothing serious;)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T-0:
can it be fixed?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phamxp426:
I did the exact same thing as you, switching from the T989 (with a faulty screen) to a i9100. My i9100 also has some lines on the screen, but it is much better and much less noticeable. My advice is to enjoy your phone as it is, but if the lines really bother you that much, the best thing to do is to get another type of phone :( I'm not sure if it can be fixed either as most phones have some extent to screen lines.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JohnnySM:
I've purchased my I9100 through my carrier, and I don't see any problems with screen. I have heard of problems with screen, but I myself didn't have any. I think you do have a right for a replacement, since it is faulty.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Waza.:
i also have lines on my screen. the phone itself is faulty so you do have the right to get it fixed at least. i am in 2 minds of sending it back as its not that noticable.

just how much does it annoy you?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluefa1con:
the lines in the gradient are actually a software issue where the phone used 16 bit colours for performance
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
To be honest, I would be more annoyed by being limited to Edge data speeds with the i9100 on T-Mobile USA's "4g" network, more than I would by the screen. This applies to both you and the OP.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T-0:
I don't really care about being limited to the edge data speed since I rarely use the data network, the faulty screen is what annoys me more. I'm pretty sure that they won't fix if I return it, they're just going to send me another faulty phone, so I think I'm gonna keep it for a while.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
You could be right, but it may be even worse. You said you bought it through Amazon. When you bought the item, did it have "no warranty" in the description? (unfortunately, most i9100's sold on Amazon seem to have this in the description...) If it did, then they aren't even obligated to replace it at all, I don't think.

That said, I have an i9100 (bought through Expansys USA though, not Amazon), and my screen is flawless.

Could be worth it to try to obtain a spare part screen + digitizer somewhere and try to replace the part yourself, if you feel up to it. Though it will still cost you. Quick google search for this part shows it being about $180.

EDIT: though, if there IS a return policy, just return the thing. Or see if they'll exchange it. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] T-0:
I went to amazon.com and it seems that they can give me a replacement or a refund and they won't charge me a restocking fee since the phone is defective.

I'm not sure whether to go for a refund or a replacement. What would you suggest me to do?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
If you still want the i9100 regardless of slow mobile data speed on T-mobile USA, then exchange it. Me, personally, I'd return it and get a phone that was actually optimized for my network.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] S8tansImp:
Anyone know of a basic tutorial on running scripts using this program? I want to run the Moshiach tweaks on my vibrant but being a noob I don't want to break anything. All I've found are specific to running the V6 Supercharger script but I want a more nuts and bolts tutorial.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vendettonator:
Recently my Samsung Galaxy Mini went into a boot loop. To solve this, I had to factory reset the phone, deleting all my apps. When I log onto google play, and navigate to my previous apps, it says they are still installed, and won't let me reinstall them. Is there any way round this?

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pmakaasrul:
how about the backup?did you always backup app?

if not,i think you can redownload using another website like appbrain...after that you can automatic update from google play..this is just my thought :p
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoberGalarga:
Also you can enter to Play Store from your PC, and install all the apps that you need (clicking on the Install button, the app will be installed in your phone).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] takeitkool:
my android apps

go to Google play and my android apps on right hand side or hit this link https://play.google.com/apps

it will show you all the apps that u have installed on your phone, now click on app one by one and click on install button through web, in this way you can install the apps that u have loose :)

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