Wednesday, June 1, 2011

SEM Blog Assignment # 8 (25 points)

Review: Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play is a phone with gamepad

By, Edward Baig, USA Today

For many people, playing games on smartphones is a perfectly satisfying experience. But Sony Ericsson is banking on the notion that serious gamers might prefer a dedicated gaming device such as Sony's PlayStation Portable.

Enter Xperia Play, which hits Verizon Wireless stores exclusively in the U.S. today. The device has been highly anticipated — at least among gamers — and dubbed the PlayStation phone. Actually, to be more precise, Xperia Play is the first "PlayStation Certified" smartphone, meaning it is a hybrid that combines cellphone genes with DNA from Sony's handheld game system. Indeed, Xperia is baked with Android version 2.3 or Gingerbread, the latest version of Google's mobile operating system for phones.
Sony Ericsson announced Xperia earlier this year at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. (Sony Ericsson is a 50-50 joint venture of Sony and of Ericsson.)

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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2011-05-25-sony-experia-play_n.htm

In a 2 paragraph response (a minimum of 5 sentences for each paragraph), answer the following questons.  In paragraph # 1, summarize the article into 5 main points.  Which one do you find to be most interesting?  Be specific with your thoughts.  In paragraph # 2, provide your thoughts on this new product.  What do you like or dislike about the product?  Why?  Do you feel it will be successful?  Why or why not?  Is the price competitive? 

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3 comments:

  1. The Sony Ericcson Xperia is a phone and a gaming device all in one. It is like the psp. This phone is powered with 3g. This phone is touch screen and slides. It is available for Verizon wireless. It is powered by Google android. The Sony Ericcson Xperia cannot connect to the playstation network. It also includes Verizon’s v cast store. Sony Ericsson says you'll get about 7 hours and 40 minutes of talk time off a single charge and up to about 5½ hours of game play time. It is 200 dollars with a 2 year contract and 450 without.
    I think this product is cool. I like this product because it is like a hand gaming system and a phone at the same time. You can be playing a game on the bus or something, and then you can call someone on that same device. I think the device would have been better if it were able to connect to the playstation network. It also has good talk time and good playing time. I think it might be too expensive. They should drop the price by a hundred dollars. I don’t think it will be successful because not everyone is a gamer and it doesn’t look like a nice phone. It looks more like a gaming device than a phone.

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  2. This article talks about a sony product. Gaming as became more and more popular. To target that market sony and google made a phone with gaming pads. This is going to be a new product in the phone world. It is coming out with the Verizon Wireless. You will be able to access the droid market. Sony modeled this product after the psp.
    This is a good product but I would not personally buy the phone. I feel like a phone takes up a lot of people times already. Also this phone will not look professional. One bad thing about the product is that you won’t be able to connect with your old psp product. Some people have already bought games or have games on psp network. They have to start fresh. This is an ok product.

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  3. What this article is talKing about is basically explaining the feature and the new stuff that this phone has to offer. This phone is not just a regular phone it is mixed up with the playstation portable gamesystem what this means is that it's a phone but still has the genes of a playstation portable gamesystem. It also talks about the mega pixels and that is going to bring a camera with five mega pixels and it also comes with flash. This phone I think that is going to be very popular even more than it is just because it's a Sony erricson and many people like the brand of Sony and I think that a lot of People are going to want to buy this phone/ playstation portable gamesystem.

    I think that this phone is a great idea because it has a great target of marketing because I think that they were targeting teenager but really I think that not only teenager like playing games on their phones so really this phone is going to sell to teenager little kids old men ect.so I think that this product is going to be successful and and a very good phone. The price is not to bad for the kind of phone because it beats the iPhones prices and I think it reaches the iPhones capabilities . Many people look at the price and if they like it they are most likely going to buy the product because of the cheap price.

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