Have any of you seen this yet?

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http://www.sonyericsson.com/mwcnews/xperia_play/

The Sony Xperia PLAY is the amalgamation of the PSP Go and an Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) 4" touch screen smartphone.

Full specs at: http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsso..._play-3608.php

So the PSP Go finally makes sense, and could answer the question of why the Go even existed. It gains the touchscreen I've thought the PSP has needed for a long time, and instead of the analogue "nubs", this now has analogue touch pads. It is also using a Snapdragon 1GHz CPU (so as fast as any other smartphone currently available) and an Adreno GPU capably of 60fps gaming.

No news yet if existing PSP software will run as it is on the PLAY, or if only titles ported specifically to this new phone will run, but the system has been demoed showing original PSX software running perfectly on it. Have a search on youtube and you should find a video showing RE2 running.

This is due for release this month (March 2011), and I think the release has actually been waiting for the release of Gingerbread (Android 2.3).

I need a new phone, and was seriously looking at the Samsung Galaxy S, but now the Experia PLAY is about to be released, and with Gingerbread long before the Galaxy S will see an update I'm going to wait and see what the prices will be.

Anyone else tempted?

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