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Tomorrow's the PlayStation Phone's bounteous day, after months that change same eld speculating most what it would countenance like, how much it would cost, and what the heck Sony plans to actually call it (hint: not 'PlayStation Phone').

Try 'Xperia Play', after Sony Ericsson's Xperia program of high-end smartphones. Sony excited a hurried effort of it during a Super Bowl 2011 Android sound commercial, a effort that more or inferior matched the figure in every those hirsute pictures we've stared at for months (we're favored with sure tipsters, it seems, but wildly incompetent photographers).

If you're thinking "but it's meet a slightly inferior attractive PSP Go," you're not far off. The Xperia Play clearly owes its organisation to the Go, a slide-top recreation handheld in invoke derivative from Sony's inoperative My Life Online (mylo). We hear it'll allow a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon (QSD8255) processor streaming Android 2.3 ("Gingerbread"), sport a big 4-inch 854 by 480 pixel Bravia-powered touchscreen (compared to the PSP Go's 3.8-inch 480 by 272 pixel screen), allow a 5.0 megapixel camera, 512MB memory, a microSD slot, and a slide-out bottom piece with an oblong touchpad splayed between Sony's trademark PlayStation d-pad (left) and symbol-etched quaternary buttons (right).

We're also pretty sure it'll hold Sony's newborn PlayStation Suite, a code utilization support for transfer older PlayStation and PlayStation Portable games to a difference of devices that hold the standard. In fact the Xperia Play haw meet be the tip of an iceberg, an overhyped Android sound that mostly plays older PS One ports. For every the hay the account blogs made most this thing, the actual programme was Sony's Next Generation Portable every along, a figure that makes the Xperia Play countenance same yesterday's news.

Sony's set to show the Xperia Play tomorrow (Sunday, Feb 13) at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. We'll cover the conference when it kicks soured at 1:00 PM EST (6:00 PM GMT).

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