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HELSINKI (Reuters) – The prototypal PlayStation phone, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play, is not strained by the massive accumulation severance of PlayStation user accounts, the sound concern said on Thursday.

Late in Apr Sony Corp warned that hackers had taken names, addresses and possibly assign bill info from almost 80 meg users of its PlayStation online network, in digit of the maximal ever cyberspace section breaches.

A Sony Ericsson spokesman said the problems were not affecting the sound concern -- a 50:50 stake between Sony and Ericsson -- which in March started to delude Xperia Play, the prototypal PlayStation phone.

"Sony and Sony Ericsson accumulation shack on different servers," the spokesman said.

PlayStation Suite, the mobile arm of PlayStation network, is set to be opened after this year.

"Sony's PlayStation collapse module be both an possibleness and a threat for Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play. It is a threat because a wave of negative headlines is tarnishing the valuable PlayStation brand," said shrink Neil Mawston from Strategy Analytics.

"But it is also an possibleness to upgrade further the back-end section of PlayStation Suite over the incoming some months and to make sure the newborn assist launches with reinforced section for business transactions and the like," Mawston said.

Other analysts said the effect on Sony Ericsson and Xperia Play would be limited.

"I think its effect in the nearby term is minimal, but it's doubtless uninvited negative message just as they're play to take PlayStation to newborn devices," said Geoff Blaber from CCS Insight.

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Separately, Sony Ericsson undraped on weekday digit newborn smartphone models, Xperia mini and Xperia mini pro, to extend its offering.

The stake reportable a acquire in the prototypal quarter only due to a one-off increase from higher-than-usual royalty payments as its old smartphone substance started to retrograde appeal.

It has started to delude a some newborn models, including the Xperia Play, and the digit models undraped on weekday module further alter the portfolio from incoming quarter.

Sony Ericsson also undraped a newborn tighter combining of its smartphones to Facebook, meliorate linking areas of the sound much as the represent gallery, music player, directory and calendar to the ethnic network.

"The combining with Facebook crossways the Xperia portfolio is added good warning of the differentiation they need to add continuance to their devices," said IDC shrink Francisco Jeronimo.

(Editing by Will Waterman)

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