I remember the day I got my Xperia Play months back and thinking how many bugs and issues it had, it was a great device let down by buggy SE software.
Fast forward a few months to the latest SE update and the change is like night and day, it really is like using a new device!, fast, snappy, more features, fast booting, I really am happy with the support SE has been putting into the Play post launch.
Add to this the recent surge in Android Development here at XDA with CM7, DoomKernal, PSXperia, Overclocking, Recovery, Bootloader unlocking etc and it really is looking good for us Play owners!
And the games/Development support?
Since E3 and Gamesconn the Play has been going from strength to strength, lots of great new games from major developers such as Minecraft, Dead Space, Reckless Getaway, Need For Speed, Fifa and lots more still planned.
A few months ago the future wasn't looking that good for the Play, this has all changed thanks to the continued SE support, development support and the modding/hacking scene on XDA! I was very close to selling my device but now I honestly feel like this is the best phone out there specially for gaming, I will be keeping it well into next year now!
Everyone deserves a pat on the back for making the Play a success against all odds! lets make a toast!
What do you think?
I was skeptical about SE's ability to properly support their handsets due to the bad stories from 2010 but it really seems that they want to change their behavior now in 2011.
I bought my Xperia Play yesterday, being confident after seeing the same improvements that you mentioned.
I never lost faith in the device
onward and upwards
patience is virtue... And so on....
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Given the terrible records of Sony's support (e-readers in particular, PSN scandal, and so on) I'm surprised about the good job they're doing with the Play. And yes, Sony Ericsson is a division of Sony, so I consider them one and the same.
Its a good device.But for that kind of price i did expect a FEW better feautures (5MP HD atleast...or a HDMI port for all carriers)BUt its ok..i guess i'll without since the only thing i need is PSOne GAMES on a PORTABLE DEVICE DD
Which carriers have the HDMI out on Xperia Play...
Also USA totally got the best deal of the lot... Isn't it like $100 or $200 dollars on Verizon where is here in AU/NZ it is around 8 - 900 US.
I suppose we get the added bonus of:
-great customer service
-not being locked to any network
-not being on CDMA
-Updates on time
-Not having a branded phone
-Sony Ericsson actually answers our questions.
And I got my Xperia Play for free... So no complaints.
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Which carriers have the HDMI out on Xperia Play...
Also USA totally got the best deal of the lot... Isn't it like $100 or $200 dollars on Verizon where is here in AU/NZ it is around 8 - 900 US.
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Its $99 with a 2 year contract on Verizon. Theres a couple little caveats one being that its still running 2.3.2 and Verizon is slow as crap to update. The other is they totally stripped the phone of SE's UI features and broke the facebook connectivity as well (remedied by downloading Fsync from Watto). So a lot of the cool stuff that it does besides gaming doesn't work and won't be available on Verizon unless you root it.
That said all the gaming features are there, and the games play perfect, so in the end its good enough and totally worth the price. The one thing about Verizon as well is it is by far the most reliable cell service in the US, so for the most basic feature that is most important, it always works.
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Which carriers have the HDMI out on Xperia Play...
Also USA totally got the best deal of the lot... Isn't it like $100 or $200 dollars on Verizon where is here in AU/NZ it is around 8 - 900 US.
I suppose we get the added bonus of:
-great customer service
-not being locked to any network
-not being on CDMA
-Updates on time
-Not having a branded phone
-Sony Ericsson actually answers our questions.
And I got my Xperia Play for free... So no complaints.
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I don't know about the US getting the best deal in my opinion, over here in the uk recent price drops let me pick up a xplay sim free for £260 from Expansys, personally I am willing to pay a bit more for being carrier free (plus at the moment no carrier over here are offering good contracts with the phone, ie. it actually works out cheaper to buy a sim free xplay and a sim only contract.).
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Its $99 with a 2 year contract on Verizon. Theres a couple little caveats one being that its still running 2.3.2 and Verizon is slow as crap to update. The other is they totally stripped the phone of SE's UI features and broke the facebook connectivity as well (remedied by downloading Fsync from Watto). So a lot of the cool stuff that it does besides gaming doesn't work and won't be available on Verizon unless you root it.
That said all the gaming features are there, and the games play perfect, so in the end its good enough and totally worth the price. The one thing about Verizon as well is it is by far the most reliable cell service in the US, so for the most basic feature that is most important, it always works.
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I really like how the Verizon Play shipped without most of SE's UI. IMHO I think it makes it run faster and comes with less bloat than normal.
Now that we have root I have removed or frozen almost all of my unwanted processes and apps, leaving me with a close to vanilla version of Android with Xplay Launcher and store support.
If we are able to get a kernel to O/C CDMA stock, I would consider this the best "rom" out there for the Play
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I don't know about the US getting the best deal in my opinion, over here in the uk recent price drops let me pick up a xplay sim free for £260 from Expansys, personally I am willing to pay a bit more for being carrier free (plus at the moment no carrier over here are offering good contracts with the phone, ie. it actually works out cheaper to buy a sim free xplay and a sim only contract.).
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I got my play. The week it came out. BNIB for £300 on ebay I was quite impressed
I agree; development on the Xperia Play is picking up, I didn't expect this phone to receive a lot of community/hacking attention because I thought it was supposed to target a very specific group of people, turns out I was wrong.
In Singapore now you can get the phone for free with a 2 year S$36 plan. That includes 12GB of data (never will you finish using). I bought it for $238 with plan 2 months ago *cries*
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I really like how the Verizon Play shipped without most of SE's UI. IMHO I think it makes it run faster and comes with less bloat than normal.
Now that we have root I have removed or frozen almost all of my unwanted processes and apps, leaving me with a close to vanilla version of Android with Xplay Launcher and store support.
If we are able to get a kernel to O/C CDMA stock, I would consider this the best "rom" out there for the Play
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It probably does run faster but from what I hear the SE UI stuff actually doesn't sound bad. Plus theres new updates like xLoud and DLNA connectivity that we probably won't get. Just bothers me that I don't have a choice on it, if I didn't want choice I'd buy an iPhone .
I totally agree. When I first got the phone, just getting root access was a huge deal. Just a couple months later I have full fledged bootloader unlock, custom kernel, latest SE firmware and the choice of putting Cyanogenmod on there.
If Blagus manages to get sense working I'll pee myself
Definitely a great phone!
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It probably does run faster but from what I hear the SE UI stuff actually doesn't sound bad. Plus theres new updates like xLoud and DLNA connectivity that we probably won't get. Just bothers me that I don't have a choice on it, if I didn't want choice I'd buy an iPhone .
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Word is steve jobbs quit apple because he had a nervous breakdown. Everytime he googled ipad or ipad2. It came up with the HP Touchpad for $99
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Word is steve jobbs quit apple because he had a nervous breakdown. Everytime he googled ipad or ipad2. It came up with the HP Touchpad for $99
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Lmao, Joke about him all you can now.He'll be dead and forgotten soon.He really doesn't look well.
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I paid 100 CAD for it with a contract. Rogers had it for $50 recently with a three year term. Best phone I've ever had, with the exception of my ultra reliable Nokia 6126. That phone was the bomb when it was still new.
Things just keep improving with the play. Very large contrast compared to my last SE phone years ago, which was a total piece of garbage and wouldn't even make calls properly brand new (I went through 3 replacements)
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Deoxlar said:
He'll be dead and forgotten soon.
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Don't be a pratt,
How is one of the most successful CEO's of recent times going to be forgotton even when he has gone? he will be remembered for many good things.
This isn't about android vs ios, put that to one side for a moment.
Hate him or love him he changed the whole mobile device market for the better, without ios/iphone there would not have been the huge shift in design and competition of smartphones, before the iphone the smartphone wasn't doing well, without ios/iphone there would be no android, no ios, no windows mobile 7, instead we would still be using our basic nokias and moto's!
You think back to 2007 before the iphone announcement, the range of "smartphones" out was a joke, I had a Nokia N95 which was considered one of the best and compared to todays devices it is a very basic smartphone.
Now think forward to six months after the release of the iphone, EVERY smartphone company totally shifted design to try and compete with the iphone, this is how it all started for the better, now look at today, we have amazing devices with a huge choice, Android devices are so smart and advanced, it's amazing to think about how those 4 years have made todays devices possible!
The same is happening with tablets.
But yeah, I have been following his condition on Neogaf and it seems like it could be anyday now
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Don't be a pratt,
How is one of the most successful CEO's of recent times going to be forgotton even when he has gone? he will be remembered for many good things.
This isn't about android vs ios, put that to one side for a moment.
Hate him or love him he changed the whole mobile device market for the better, without ios/iphone there would not have been the huge shift in design and competition of smartphones, before the iphone the smartphone wasn't doing well, without ios/iphone there would be no android, no ios, no windows mobile 7, instead we would still be using our basic nokias and moto's!
You think back to 2007 before the iphone announcement, the range of "smartphones" out was a joke, I had a Nokia N95 which was considered one of the best and compared to todays devices it is a very basic smartphone.
Now think forward to six months after the release of the iphone, EVERY smartphone company totally shifted design to try and compete with the iphone, this is how it all started for the better, now look at today, we have amazing devices with a huge choice, Android devices are so smart and advanced, it's amazing to think about how those 4 years have made todays devices possible!
The same is happening with tablets.
But yeah, I have been following his condition on Neogaf and it seems like it could be anyday now
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I like how you totally went off on a tangent instead of sticking to the original topic.
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I like how you totally went off on a tangent instead of sticking to the original topic.
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Dont forget he also invented the human centi-pad
Steve Jobs won't give you the time of day if you ask him. Why are people mourning him 1) before he's dead and 2) as though he was Mother Theresa?
Android are doing 10 Billion Promo where they are reducing 10 apps for 10 pence (equivalent) and todays apps are:-
SoundHound
Asphalt 6: Adrenaline HD
Minecraft - Pocket Edition
Swiftkey X
Endomondo Sports Tracker
Great Little War Game
Sketchbook Movile
Fieldrunners HD
Color & Draw for Kids (Phone)
Paper Camera
Source
Look out for it on the market.
is it available worldwide?
Good find, just bought a couple after seeing your post, can't go wrong at that price!
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Bought the SwiftKey x - best 10 cents I ever spent!
Should be I think.
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I brought Minecraft and Endomondo, but the apps would not download. I got the email invoice but the install box don't appere on the app page and I can't get a refund because it's not installed. Funny thing is the apps are listed in my app section.
Tried to buy it again and only got another email invoice without download option, going to wait for few hrs to see anything changes.
Hmm.. Worked good for me, i bought some more apps now - no problems at all.. Could be that the market servers are overloaded..
Probably I have not had any problems either.
Is sold out. So lets take bets... the preorders were already inflated from $315 to $399
I'm betting that stock will be found on eBay/Amazon during the holidays or early 2013 starting at $699
I wont be paying that much.
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And... what does this have to do with the Atrix?
i try to pre-order from china from official site xiaomi.com the mi2 but the first mobiles are the beta version, final version pre-order is not yet.
Oh, no xiaomi sub-forum and u put it in the atrix, thanks
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Is sold out. So lets take bets... the preorders were already inflated from $315 to $399
I'm betting that stock will be found on eBay/Amazon during the holidays or early 2013 starting at $699
I wont be paying that much.
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1. it's cheap and a power monster.
2. it's not sold out. it's just "booked out". like restaurant is booked fully does not mean all booked customers will go there for sure. i expect 50% people who got the mi phone bookings will place the order.
3. no use for non chinese user. cause few english based developers will have the phone. and a lot of translations, localizations need to be done.
4. quality and delivery time are unknown.
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3. no use for non chinese user. cause few english based developers will have the phone. and a lot of translations, localizations need to be done.
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I suspect (or rather, hope) that the Mi2 will manage to find popularity, and maybe even official distribution outside China. There really isn't anything comparable coming to the RoW market at this kind of price point at the moment, so there will be a lot of interest from developers abroad.
I, for one, don't even like Miui, but if I could have that hardware running ported CM10 I'd be happy as a pig in s**t - especially given it's a 4.3" phone at 720p, and AFAIK the only other option is the Sony which is far more expensive and doesn't have the horsepower of the Mi2. I'm not really a fan of big screens, but I do like having all the pixels
Hey, maybe somebody will want to swap a Mi2 for my One X one day :victory:
Thread closed. Please stay on topic about the Atrix 4G in these forums.
I'm an soooo angry and sorry for using F in the title.:crying:
I'm in Spain and its been out of stock for about 2 months. wtf, missed the holidays and continues.
Does anybody know when it will restock, or where I can buy in spain?
I love google but this pisses me of, they'r lucky I HATE ipads and I don't tolerate (and disapprove) of non-stock android tablets.
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I'm an soooo angry and sorry for using F in the title.:crying:
I'm in Spain and its been out of stock for about 2 months. wtf, missed the holidays and continues.
Does anybody know when it will restock, or where I can buy in spain?
I love google but this pisses me of, they'r lucky I HATE ipads and I don't tolerate (and disapprove) of non-stock android tablets.
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Chill mate it hasn't even been released here in HK and we cannot but from us play store
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I guess Google didn't anticipate this high of demand..... They better step it up this year and learn from their mistakes.... Shame shame. Sorry man
My apologies, but I got mine yesterday. I live in Norway though
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I feel your pain all the way here in Canada where the Nexus 10 have been sold out since a brief appearance on the Google's play store. From what I have read it seems they purposely keep stock low on all the nexus devices. Just this week the Nexus 4 and lack of availability has been in the news. The Nexus 7 had a similar shortage.
I had previously been interested in an Asus Transformer and religiously followed their XDA forums posts. They were also in short supply for many months after a new model was introduced. All the complaints I saw in their forums are being echoed in this one. Including identical hardware/software compliants especially about light bleed and lack of quality control.
It makes me feel that purchasing a Tablet is more of a crap shoot than a consumer purchase. I almost expect to see flashing text "Do you feel lucky sucker!", just before making that final purchase.
Has anyone else from the UK like me who has imported the PH-1?
I'm waiting for official release,just can't get an answer when it will be
As far as I'm concerned, and only my opinion if course.
It does not deserve the bad reviews. For sure it wasn't great when first released, but after a few updates, it's improved a lot. Even the camera has improved.
Most people who have seen me using it, comment on how good it looks, and want to know who makes it.
The SOT is great, I've been regularly getting 6 hours +.
Have you tried ordering from Amazon Prime?
If anyone is interested I am selling one on Gumtree along with 360 camera...getting a new phone from work and I just received it direct from Essential right before my departure to UK. I'm here in Manchester til Oct 3 so if anyone wants to get their hands on an exclusive ...DM me.
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As far as I'm concerned, and only my opinion if course.
It does not deserve the bad reviews. For sure it wasn't great when first released, but after a few updates, it's improved a lot. Even the camera has improved.
Most people who have seen me using it, comment on how good it looks, and want to know who makes it.
The SOT is great, I've been regularly getting 6 hours +.
Have you tried ordering from Amazon Prime?
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Mind answering how much you paid after taxes etc to get it?
Please DM me if interested in purchasing. It's a thing of beauty ..just don't need it with work providing me with possibly a V30
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Mind answering how much you paid after taxes etc to get it?
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It came in at around 880 dollars.