Today you may get a gaming controller that attaches to your smartphone for a handheld console-like gaming expertise. Nonetheless, earlier than gaming smartphones turned a pattern, there was the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play – an Android smartphone with controls hidden behind the show that would play PlayStation cellular video games.

Whereas an official successor was not introduced, it seems that there was certainly one in growth. Photographs of the Xperia Play 2 have surfaced on-line due to a senior member of XDA-Builders referred to as JerryYin who collects prototype telephones.

The pictures present that the cellphone retains its sliding design. It additionally has a D-Pad, motion buttons, and analog contact buttons identical to the unique. Sony has moved the menu, choose, and begin buttons to the highest of the analog contact controls and has additionally added a fourth button labeled 3D. The D-pad and motion buttons even have an orange ring round them.

The Xperia Play 2 retains the shoulder buttons and so they too have an orange accent. Personally, I want this to the silver buttons on the unique. The cellphone has a single digital camera and an LED flash on the again whereas the entrance is dwelling to Android’s outdated capacitive buttons.

JerryYin has put up the cellphone on the market on a platform referred to as IdleFish which is analogous to eBay. It’s priced at ¥233.33 (~$34) which appears to be a very reasonable value.

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