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Purpose of this document
Sony Ericsson product White papers are intended to give an overview of a product and provide details in
relevant areas of technology.
Document history
Version
August 2011
Eighth released version
Version 8
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Table of contents
Xperia™ Play gaming controls ..............................................................................5
Device-to-device communications (local) ...........................................................10
Wi-Fi®...............................................................................................................11
Positioning – location based services .................................................................15
Web browser .......................................................................................................18
Trademarks and acknowledgements ..................................................................19
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Product overview
Sony Ericsson Xperia™ PLAY - Slide out to wow
Slot home the winning goal. Conquer the demon dragons. Hit the ground with guns blazing. Or even work,
if you have to. Simply switch from calls, emails and Internet browsing, to playing your favourite console
games. On Xperia™ PLAY. The full-featured PlayStation™ certified Android™ smartphone with a 4”
screen and real console controls that’s designed to do everything you need. So you can immerse yourself
in the glorious games you want.
Geared up for gaming
Slide out the controls and smash the volley into the top corner. Or crush the enemy in close quarter
combat. In superb stereo sound. Pass like a pro using dedicated gaming keys and view the action on the
whole screen, without your fingers getting in the way. High octane action brought to life with a fast 1GHz
processor and powerful Adreno 205 graphics processor. The crispest colours and true 3D gaming
graphics. Couldn’t be better, could it?
Feast on the fun
What’s your game? Full flowing football on FIFA 10? Or full contact karate with Bruce Lee: Dragon
Warrior? Play the preloaded games, or download what you want from Sony and other top gaming
publishers. Choose from thousands of games on Android Market™. Speak, search, read, play, enjoy. With
more than 100,000 apps available you won’t have time to get bored.
Want more? Get instant access to Google™ mobile services like YouTube™, Google Maps™, Gmail™, or
find what you want on the web with Google Voice Search™. The latest of everything on a smartphone
that’s made for gamers.
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Xperia™ Play gaming controls
Control the game from the palm of your hand. With the unique gaming control design of Sony
Playstation® transformed into Xperia™ Play you will have a gaming experience hard to resist.
Gaming control keys
1. Left trigger
2. Directional buttons
3. Game menu
4. Touch screen
5. Touch pad
6.
7.
8.
9.
Button
Button
Button
Button
10. Select key
11. Right trigger
12. Start key
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11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
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Facts – dimensions, weight, performance and
networks
Operating system
Processor
Size
Google™ Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
1 GHz Scorpion ARMv7
119 × 62 ×16 mm
Weight
175 grams
Available colours
Black
White
Main screen
Colours
16,777,216 colour TFT
480×854 pixels
4 inches
Resolution
Size (diagonal)
Input mechanisms
Text input
On-screen QWERTY keyboard
Capacitive (multi-touch)
Yes
Touch screen
Gesture control
Memory
Phone memory
Memory card support
Camera
Up to 400 MB
microSD™, up to 32 GB
Camera resolution
Photo flash
5.1 megapixel
Yes – LED
Video recording
Sensors
Yes – 480p
Accelerometer
Proximity sensor
Ambient light sensor
Magnetometer
eCompass™
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Networks
R800a
UMTS HSPA 800 (Band VI), 850 (Band V), 1900 (Band II),
2100 (Band I)
GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900
R800at
R800i
UMTS HSPA 800 (Band VI), 850 (Band V), 1900 (Band II),
2100 (Band I)
GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900
UMTS HSPA 900 (Band VIII), 2100 (Band I)
GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900
R800x
CDMA2000®, cdmaOne, EVDO
Data transfer speeds
GSM GPRS (GPRS MS Class 10/ Up to 80 kbps (download). Up to 20 kbps (upload)
AT&T Class 10)
GSM EDGE (E-GPRS MS Class
12)
Up to 237 kbps (download). Up to 59 kbps (upload)
UMTS HSPA (HS-DSCH Cat. 8
download)
Up to 7.2 Mbps
UMTS HSPA (E-DCH Cat. 6
upload)
Up to 5.76 Mbps
1XEV-DO
Up to 3.1 Mbps (download). Up to 1.8 Mbps (upload)
Up to 8 hours 25 min*
Up to 425 hours*
Talk time (GSM)
Standby time (GSM)
Talk time (UMTS)
Standby time (UMTS)
Talk time (CDMA2000®)
Standby time (CDMA2000®)
Game play time (Java)
MP3 playback
Up to 6 hours 25 min*
Up to 413 hours*
Up to 7 hours 40 min*
Up to 405 hours*
Up to 5 hours 35 min
Up to 30 hours 35 min
1500 mAh
Battery
* Values are according to GSM Association Battery Life Measurement Technique.
NOTE: Battery performance may vary depending on network conditions and configurations, and phone
usage.
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Categorised feature list
Internet
Music
Camera
Android Market™*
Bookmarks
Album art
5.1 megapixel camera
Auto focus
Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
Google Music player***
Music tones (MP3/AAC)
PlayNow™ service*
Sony Ericsson Music player**
Stereo speakers
Google™ search*
Google Voice™ Search*
Pan & zoom
Flash/Photo light
Front-facing camera (VGA)
Geo tagging
Send to web
Video light
Web browser (Webkit)
TrackID™ music recognition*
Video recording
Design
Communication
Call list
Conference calls
Facebook™ application (from
Android Market™)
Messaging
Auto rotation
Android Cloud to Device
messaging (C2DM)
Conversations
Keyboard (on-screen, 12 key)
Keyboard (on-screen, QWERTY)
Live wallpaper
Email
Picture wallpaper
Screenshot capturing
Swipe to write
Facebook inside Xperia™ 2.0
Google Talk™ video chat*
Noise Shield
Polyphonic ringtones
Speakerphone
Google Mail™*
Instant messaging
Multimedia messaging (MMS)
Predictive text input
Sound recorder
Touch screen
Sony Ericsson Timescape™**
Twitter™ application (from
Android Market™)*
Vibrating alert
Text messaging (SMS)
Video chat ready
* This service is not available in all markets.
**Available for R800a, R800at, R800i.
***Available for R800x
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Connectivity
Organiser
Alarm clock
Calculator
Entertainment
3D games
Accelerated Adobe Flash Video
Dedicated gaming keys
Gesture gaming
Motion gaming
Sony Entertainment Networks*
Video streaming
3.5 mm audio jack
aGPS*
Bluetooth™ technology
DLNA Certified™***
Google Latitude™*
Google Location Service*
Google Maps™ with Street View*
Media Transfer Protocol support
Micro USB Support
Native USB tethering*
Modem
Calendar
Document editors
Document readers
E-Manual
Flight mode
Google Calendar™*
Google Gallery 3D*
Infinite button***
Phonebook
YouTube™*
Synchronisation via Facebook™**
Synchronisation via Google
Sync™*
Setup guide
Widget manager
Synchronisation via Microsoft®
Exchange ActiveSync®
Synchronisation via Sony
Ericsson Sync***
USB High Speed 2.0 support
USB mass storage
USB OTG
Wi-Fi®
Wi-Fi® Hotspot functionallity*
* This service is not available in all markets.
** Requires Facebook™application installed on the device.
*** Available for R800a, R800at, R800i.
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Technologies in detail
NOTE: The information outlined below is general and levels of compliance to standards and specifications
may vary between products and markets. For more information, contact Sony Ericsson Developer World
or your Sony Ericsson contact person where applicable.
Device-to-device communications (local)
Bluetooth™ wireless technology
Bluetooth™ profiles supported
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile
Audio/Video Control Transport Protocol
Audio/Video Distribution Transport Protocol
Audio/Video Remote Control Protocol
Generic Audio/Video Distribution Profile
Hands-Free Profile
Headset Profile
Object Push Profile
Phone Book Access Profile
RFCOMM with TS 07.10
Serial Port Profile
Core version and supported
core features
v2.1 + EDR
Connectable devices
All products supporting Bluetooth™ version 1.2 or higher
and at least one of the profiles above.
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Wi-Fi®
Supported standards
Connectable devices
Frequency band
802.11b/g/n
Wi-Fi access points
2.4 GHz
Data transmission rate
802.11b to 11 Mbps
802.11g to 54 Mbps
802.11n to 72 Mbps
Security
Open
Open WEP
Shared WEP
WPA Personal and WPA2 Personal
Encryption
Power save
TKIP and AES
WMM-UAPSD
QoS, WMM
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DLNA Certified™ (Digital Living Home Alliance)*
Supported Device Classes
M-DMS – Mobile Digital Media Server
Media Types: Images
Summary: The digital media server exposes the media
files in your phone to a Wi-Fi® network. The files can
then be accessed from other DLNA Certified™ clients.
Supported Bearers
DRM Support
Wi-Fi®
The Sony Ericsson DLNA Certified™ implementation
does not support DRM-protected content.
* Available for R800a, R800at, R800i.
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Gaming
Chipset
Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8x55 chipset
CPU 1 GHz Scorpion
Adreno 205 GPU 245 MHz
Rendering
Audio
OpenGl ES 2.0 with texture compression support for
ETC1, 16 bit RAW and 32 bit RAW.
OpenGL SL with support for ADPCM, WAV, MP3 and raw
AAC.
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Messaging
MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)
According to OMA Multimedia Messaging Service v1.0 + SMIL
Email
Bearer type (IP) – UMTS variant
Bearer type (IP) – CDMA
Character sets
GPRS, EGPRS, UMTS
Simple IP and Mobile IP
BIG5 Traditional Chinese
GB2312 Simplified Chinese
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-2 Eastern Europe
ISO-8859-5 Cyrillic
ISO-8859-7 Greek
ISO-8859-9 Turkish
ISO-2022-JP Japanese
KOI8-R Cyrillic
USASCII
UTF-8
UTF-16
Shift_JIS Japanese
Windows® 874
Windows® 1251 Cyrillic
Windows® 1252
Windows® 1254 Turkish
Windows® 1258 Vietnamese
Protocols
POP3 and IMAP4
Push email
Secure email
Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® (EAS)
SSL/TLS, both port methods (POPS/IMAPS) and
STARTTLS
HTML mail
Yes (read only)
More information:
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Positioning – location based services
Supported standards:
• 3GPP™ Control Plane location (incl. Emergency location)
• 3GPP2™ Control Plane location (incl. Emergency location)
• Cell tower and Wi-Fi® positioning
• Google Location Services
Supported satellite systems:
GPS
GLONASS*
* NOTE: GPS and GLONASS are used together to calculate the position. With both systems active, the
accuracy and robustness of the positioning is better in most conditions. The usage of GLONASS as an
additional system is transparent both to users and developers, and the benefits are automatically available
to applications currently using the Satellite Positioning API (“GPS Provider” in Android terminology).
Synchronisation (OMA DS, EAS, Google Sync)
OMA Data Synchronisation protocol versions 1.1.2 and 1.2
OMA Data Formats: vCard 2.1, vCalendar 1.0
Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol version 2.5
Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol version 12
Google Sync™
More information:
Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC)
Variant
M-ratings
T-ratings
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R800at
R800a
R800x
R800i
M3
M3
M4
n/a
T3
T3
T4
n/a
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Multimedia (audio, image and video)
Audio Playback
Decoder format
Supported in file format
Audio decoding MPEG-1/2/2.5,
audio layer 3
MP3 (.mp3), 3GPP (.3gp),
MP4 (.mp4, .m4a)
AAC, AAC+, eAAC+
AMR-NB, AMR-WB
General MIDI (GM)
Linear PCM 16bit
OTA
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
SMF (.mid)
WAV (.wav)
OTA (.ota)
Ogg vorbis
Ogg vorbis (.ogg)
Supported in file format
Audio Recording
Image Playback
Encoder format
AMR-NB, AMR-WB
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4),
AMR (.amr)
AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AAC-LC
stereo, sample rate 48 kHz bit rate
128 kbps
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
Decoder format
Supported in file format
1, 4, 8, 16, 24 and 32 bpp and RLE BMP (.bmp)
encoded formats
Single and multi-frame, bitmap
mask support (GIF87a format and
GIF89a format)
GIF (.gif)
Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPEG (.jpg)
Portable Network Graphics Bitmap PNG (.png)
mask support
Wireless Bitmap
WBMP (.wbmp)
Image Capture
Video Playback
Encoder format
Supported in file format
JPEG (.jpg)
Joint Photographic Experts Group
Decoder format
Supported in file format
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
MPEG-4 Visual Simple Profile,
Advanced Simple Profile Level 6
H.264 High Profile Level 3.1
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
3GPP (.3gp)
H.263 Profile 0, Profile 3 Level 70
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Video Recording
Encoder format
Supported in file format
Video H.263 Profile 0, H.264
Baseline Profile
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
Audio: AAC-LC stereo, sample rate
48 kHz bit rate 128 kbps, AMR-NB
Audio/Video Streaming
DRM
Streaming transport
RTSP according to 3GPP™
HTTP streaming
DRM (Digital Rights Management) – OMA DRM 1.0
features the rights and copy
protection of downloaded content
Web browser
Browser version
Android 2.3 Browser (Based on WebKit)
Navigation/rendering
Adobe™ Flash™ 10.3*
Full page PC rendering
Landscape/portrait rendering
Pan & Zoom
Search
Internet Search
Browser compliancy
CSS 2.0
CSS 2.1
CSS 3.0
DOM 2.0
DOM 3.0
HTML version. 4.0
HTML version. 5.0
JavaScript 1.7/ECMA-script 262 3rd edition
WebGL 1.0
XHTML Basic version 1.0
XHTML 1.1
Supported Device API
Protocol compliancy
Geo-location API
Gzip
HTTP/1.1
OMA Download 1.0
TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0
* Updates are distributed via Android market™.
Related information:
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Trademarks and acknowledgements
The Liquid Identity and Liquid Energy logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Ericsson
Mobile Communications AB. Sony, "make.believe" and PLAYSTATION are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Sony Corporation. Ericsson is a trademark of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson.
The Bluetooth word mark and logos are owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by
Sony Ericsson is under licence.
Google, Google Latitude, Google Maps, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Mail, YouTube, Google
Voice and Android are trademarks or registered trademarks of Google, Inc. Facebook is a trademark or
registered trademark of Facebook, Inc. Twitter is a trademark or a registered trademark of Twitter, Inc.
Wi-Fi is a trademark or registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. DLNA and DLNA Certified are
trademarks or registered trademarks of the Digital Living Network Alliance. microSD is a trademark or
registered trademark of SanDisk Corporation. XHTML is a registered trademark of the W3C.
Microsoft, Windows and ActiveSync are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
Adobe Flash is a trademark or registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States
and/or other countries. 3GPP is a trademark of ETSI. CDMA2000 is a trademark of TIA-USA. Java and all
Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in
the U.S. and other countries.
All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.
Some features described herein require supporting services. Usage charges may apply for such services.
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