It might've been 12 years later, but I eventually still got my dream phone 💖 Thanks to Aura for sponsoring this video, go to aura.com/dammitjeff and see if your personal information has been compromised 👀
@DammitJeff can you post a link to that Discord group you mentioned? I’m trying to find it but I guess it’s only posted in redit and like always it’s trying to force me to use their app… NOPE! Not sure why they make people try to use their app to the point of me hating them!
A lot of people forget that Minecraft mobile for iOS and Android (known as Minecraft pocket edition at the time) was exclusively launched on the Xperia Play. Notch was at e3 2011 showing off the game in the Sony/Ericson booth.
Sony made such good devices that never took off or they just dropped. Xperia phones were my favorite at around this time. They just felt premium back when Samsung was all plastic.
I remember there was a feature in psnapp that let you play from your sony phone then with a modded version you could do it on any android phone but then it was patched to keep the feature for sonyphones because no one was buying them. never met anyone with a sonyphone or anyone who even knew this feature existed, maybe shooting themselves in foot repeatedly didnt help.
This was my dream phone too, I wanted it so bad I looked everywhere. Sadly I was never able to get it and had to settle for an Xperia Mini Pro, which, in hindsight, wasn't bad at all because it turned out to have the exact same internal specs! That physical keyboard, while not exactly a controller interface, performed well enough for that purpose. So it may not have been what I wanted, but unbeknownst to me, it was the next best thing in the Android sphere at the time.
This video was a big nostalgia kick for me. I didn't have an Xperia Play, but i did have a Kyocera Rise. Very smilar form factor and performance level but instead of psp controls it had a qwerty keyboard. I played all these games. Especially GBA and SNES emulators with my slide uo keyboard bound to button presses. For N64 games I'd connect my wii remote over Bluetooth and plug a wii classic controller in.
I've wanted a modern powerful version of this phone for so long now. I hope eventually the d-pad gets its rightful place as a digital navigation tool in our cyborg lifestyle
Imagine how cool it would be to have a ps5 phone in a similar style to this with fold out controls, it could even have its own store you could buy ps5 games made for the phone itself
When it comes to GB, GBC, and GBA games, I always played with the legit aspect ratio. Just can't stand to play it any other way. I really wanted one of these things back in the day and, I still want one. Sony really needs to revisit this concept. I would buy one in a heartbeat if they made a new one.
If only Sony could bring this phone back just once. give it full spec with 512 GB storage and an SD card... imagine the possibility of the device, and thanks to developers.. we can use the phone for 20 years without any problems...
If Sony or Samsung came out with a sliding gaming phone with modern sleek 3DS like controls and second screen. I think it could really take off. What a machine
Loved the video. Just a little bit of info, Sony Ericsson was a collaboration between Sony and Ericsson, Ericsson are one of the pioneers in mobile telecom and are still around today, Sony eventually purchased Ericssons share in Sony Ericsson and renamed it to Sony Mobile.
jakeDOT. Sony needed Ericson, to release phones, patents etc. Siemens, Motorola, Nokia, they needed a telephone company all back then, MS bought Nokia etc.
I had one of these and the battery life was shocking. I bought a Chinese XL battery that stuck out the back like a brick, it added about 30 mins. I completed RE2 on it and loved it, if the battery was better it would have been amazing.
I have 2 at the moment both needing a repair in which I'm going to make one decent phone and the other as parts. What the presenter didn't notev was the quality of materials of this phone. The metal for the slide out dpad was very premium. The back not so much but the sound was brilliant. Just a pity they didn't make it a 1GB RAM it would of had more appeal
What a good review. Subscribed. I wish someone made gaming phones like this. All modern gaming phones like RedMagic or ROG don’t have physical controls like that
Man me and my friends had this phone, we played a lot of games together, great for emulators, good times! oh dude! modding pocket edition too, the memories are flooding back lol
It tried to be ahead of time, but it had yesterday's hardware. I had to hack the kernel, run some SD programs, and got a jumbo battery. I loved the phone, but it had some faults.
I loved this phone when it came out, finished zelda 64, mgs ps1 and tons of cps2 at the time. Sad they didn't put in better specs and or make a followup device
Still till this day, I realize Sony Ericsson was very common back then.. but we didn't have the necessarily internet to search check who are they as brand themselves. Phone evolved a long way
When I first tried my Fxtec Pro1-X, in my mind, I wish there's a version with a gamepad instead. The analog sticks could be something like here and Steam Controller/Deck's touchpads 😄
with how powerful mobile phones are becoming like look at iphone 15 pro it can run RE4 remake and RE village 30 fps like 4k so imagine if sony makes an android phone that can do PS4 level quality like iphone 15 pro but the ability to slide it up and have a built in controller and have ps4 and backwards all running natively on the phone it'll be the ultimate emulator handeld and it'll live up there with psp and psvita (we dont talk about playstaion portal as thats just a cheap android strapped to 2 ps5 controllers and you gotta have a PS5 to stream the games from)
Someone should REALLY consider making a big comeback of this kind of tech in their phones. Sure, it would make a phone little bit thicker. But we got now some pretty thin foldables and it doesn't bother anyone, right?
N.O.V.A. 2 was top notch also...till the switched from a halo clone to a crisis 3 clone with N.O.V.A. 3. Miss those old dalvik system games that are unplayable now.
I had this on day one, super wiped for it, used the OnLive service on it, used to put my friends of the rails playing Dirt 2 and Homefront on it. But the lock button gave problem... Bought a Xperia Z1 and it was and experience (no pun intended). Sony actually made amazing phones, but i guess the UI design really put some peps off. Still have all my experia's, but you just can't beat Samsung now a days.
It wasnt middle of the road when it came out. It was obsolete hardware from 2 years prior when it came out. This came out after the Galaxy s3, had the same price in europe and a quarter of the specs. Performance wise, it was even weaker than that said quarter.
Yeah, nonsense like the backbone are what force me to carry around a backpack everywhere. When the Xperia Play was my daily driver, all I needed was a pocket!
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 Well Sony makes it their main marketing point that the cameras are way advanced and actually allows you to access more in-depth settings (iso, shutter, etc)
Why doesn’t it work for phone calls? I had a brick phone that was still good for calls two or three years ago. Although, I didn’t use it for anything as I’d long since upgraded so maybe it wasn’t working
Where can i download all thise old Android games. I used to play them but now they are no more available on any place. Any official links to get them!!??
Please stop saying 'commoonity'. It sounds ridiculous. Oher than that, great video. I've still got my Playstation phone - I just wish Sony had supported it a bit more, and given it more storage. Also, everyone forgets about the Sony Ericsson slider java phone they released a few years prior. It had a D-pad below the screen for selecting items from menus, etc. And above the screen, it had two buttons marked X & O. if you then played the phone in it's horizontal game mode, you had a little handheld console. Quite why more manufacturers didn't think to use that idea is a lot oppertunity.
Yeah I used to own one but sold it soon after as it didn’t have much onboard storage and also found it way to chunky and heavy to carry around in my pocket every day got Samsung galaxy s2 instead I would love a more powerful slimmer modern version
omg that 400 meg internal storage fucking suuuuucked,, i had a friend who had a galaxy 2,, and it was 16gig of internal storage,, i would constantly have to delete apps. as they would not let me run them off the sd card.. it was so frustrating.
This was my first smartphone ever, and I seem to have less fond memories of it than this videeo remembers lol, I remember it running ike shit and basically only functioning correctly with games lol
PS has always been ahead of the curve. This plus the PSP would be very successful today i believe. They released too soon. And yea now Nintendo capitalizes off of what Sony started.
It might've been 12 years later, but I eventually still got my dream phone 💖
Thanks to Aura for sponsoring this video, go to aura.com/dammitjeff and see if your personal information
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@DammitJeff can you post a link to that Discord group you mentioned? I’m trying to find it but I guess it’s only posted in redit and like always it’s trying to force me to use their app… NOPE! Not sure why they make people try to use their app to the point of me hating them!
@@Fr0stM00nit’s in the video description
@@jameschen8 thanks! I had not clicked on “more” 😅
no
Hey are you gonna make a video about the mig switch?
A lot of people forget that Minecraft mobile for iOS and Android (known as Minecraft pocket edition at the time) was exclusively launched on the Xperia Play. Notch was at e3 2011 showing off the game in the Sony/Ericson booth.
The very first demo was exclusive to this phone!
This just reminded me I had the most 🔥 survival world on mine. It’s a shame that I lost it
Watch the vid bro
I used to play this game on this phone 😂
Sony made such good devices that never took off or they just dropped. Xperia phones were my favorite at around this time. They just felt premium back when Samsung was all plastic.
The Vita was another device with amazing potential that they just dropped. What a shame
Back then apple didn't have a clue what it was doing (quite similar to now only they're following the others now)
I remember there was a feature in psnapp that let you play from your sony phone then with a modded version you could do it on any android phone but then it was patched to keep the feature for sonyphones because no one was buying them.
never met anyone with a sonyphone or anyone who even knew this feature existed, maybe shooting themselves in foot repeatedly didnt help.
@@chunkybeats79lol did you just say that apple didn’t know what they’re doing ? 🤣 sorry if i understood that wrong, my English isn’t the best 🙈
@@chunkybeats79lmao
This was my dream phone too, I wanted it so bad I looked everywhere. Sadly I was never able to get it and had to settle for an Xperia Mini Pro, which, in hindsight, wasn't bad at all because it turned out to have the exact same internal specs! That physical keyboard, while not exactly a controller interface, performed well enough for that purpose. So it may not have been what I wanted, but unbeknownst to me, it was the next best thing in the Android sphere at the time.
Shit man im ex xperia mini pro owner too that thing are such comfortable to use the physical keyboard are beast
@@tehonlynoobs5556 Agreed, it was a lovely device.
That has to be the best sponsor segue I've ever seen, kept me genuinely interested
And it got interrupted by an ad
1:58
So you think that "Ericsson" was just the name of Sony's phone division and it was named after "the son of Eric"?
Ok.
This video was a big nostalgia kick for me. I didn't have an Xperia Play, but i did have a Kyocera Rise. Very smilar form factor and performance level but instead of psp controls it had a qwerty keyboard. I played all these games. Especially GBA and SNES emulators with my slide uo keyboard bound to button presses. For N64 games I'd connect my wii remote over Bluetooth and plug a wii classic controller in.
Labelling the Minecraft chapter "hello old friend" brought a tear to my eye. Old pocket edition made so many childhoods.
I've wanted a modern powerful version of this phone for so long now. I hope eventually the d-pad gets its rightful place as a digital navigation tool in our cyborg lifestyle
Imagine how cool it would be to have a ps5 phone in a similar style to this with fold out controls, it could even have its own store you could buy ps5 games made for the phone itself
check out GPD Win Mini....it might exactly be what you want. its not a phone though.
When it comes to GB, GBC, and GBA games, I always played with the legit aspect ratio. Just can't stand to play it any other way.
I really wanted one of these things back in the day and, I still want one. Sony really needs to revisit this concept. I would buy one in a heartbeat if they made a new one.
If only Sony could bring this phone back just once. give it full spec with 512 GB storage and an SD card... imagine the possibility of the device, and thanks to developers.. we can use the phone for 20 years without any problems...
Sony could make the xperia play 2 and revive its phone line, but noooo lets do a streaming controller for the price of switch
Yeah they sure make some weird choices
If Sony or Samsung came out with a sliding gaming phone with modern sleek 3DS like controls and second screen. I think it could really take off. What a machine
Loved the video. Just a little bit of info, Sony Ericsson was a collaboration between Sony and Ericsson, Ericsson are one of the pioneers in mobile telecom and are still around today, Sony eventually purchased Ericssons share in Sony Ericsson and renamed it to Sony Mobile.
jakeDOT.
Sony needed Ericson, to release phones, patents etc.
Siemens, Motorola, Nokia, they needed a telephone company all back then, MS bought Nokia etc.
I had one of these and the battery life was shocking. I bought a Chinese XL battery that stuck out the back like a brick, it added about 30 mins. I completed RE2 on it and loved it, if the battery was better it would have been amazing.
I have 2 at the moment both needing a repair in which I'm going to make one decent phone and the other as parts. What the presenter didn't notev was the quality of materials of this phone. The metal for the slide out dpad was very premium. The back not so much but the sound was brilliant. Just a pity they didn't make it a 1GB RAM it would of had more appeal
That would absolutely be a fantasy to have when I was in school, even now. I could see myself using it today and flexing
I had this phone in white! Loved it
OMG seeing link2sd gave me major nostalgia to my Galaxy Ace. Its truly wonders what we were able to do with 256mb of storage with games XD
I had one back in the day. I always wonderd how it's capable of running heavy games with so little RAM
They needa bring this back they have more than enough tech to make this happen really smoothly.
Had this device back in the day... Ended up very disappointed in it. Maybe itd be much better these days with better emu tools
One of my all time favorite phones.
What a good review. Subscribed. I wish someone made gaming phones like this. All modern gaming phones like RedMagic or ROG don’t have physical controls like that
Man me and my friends had this phone, we played a lot of games together, great for emulators, good times! oh dude! modding pocket edition too, the memories are flooding back lol
It tried to be ahead of time, but it had yesterday's hardware.
I had to hack the kernel, run some SD programs, and got a jumbo battery.
I loved the phone, but it had some faults.
This is so nostalgic lol I remember playing so many of these mobile games on my iPod touch circa 2010
I remember wanting to have this phone so bad but it didnt have a top of the line specs at the time so I passed it for a galaxy S2.
I like my games full screen
I loved this phone when it came out, finished zelda 64, mgs ps1 and tons of cps2 at the time.
Sad they didn't put in better specs and or make a followup device
i swear if apple launched a controller with magsafe that has this slide it would sell
I like how hey always says the word computer
I never had the chance to get one 😞 this looks dope
Still till this day, I realize Sony Ericsson was very common back then.. but we didn't have the necessarily internet to search check who are they as brand themselves.
Phone evolved a long way
When I first tried my Fxtec Pro1-X, in my mind, I wish there's a version with a gamepad instead. The analog sticks could be something like here and Steam Controller/Deck's touchpads 😄
with how powerful mobile phones are becoming like look at iphone 15 pro it can run RE4 remake and RE village 30 fps like 4k so imagine if sony makes an android phone that can do PS4 level quality like iphone 15 pro but the ability to slide it up and have a built in controller and have ps4 and backwards all running natively on the phone it'll be the ultimate emulator handeld and it'll live up there with psp and psvita (we dont talk about playstaion portal as thats just a cheap android strapped to 2 ps5 controllers and you gotta have a PS5 to stream the games from)
Modern combat gave me so much nostalgia 🥹
Hey Jeff Love your videos you inspired me to hack my 3ds and switch and now i love those consoles so much more, great vid keep it up
Ahh i remember my experia play Good old days 😊😊
Someone should REALLY consider making a big comeback of this kind of tech in their phones. Sure, it would make a phone little bit thicker. But we got now some pretty thin foldables and it doesn't bother anyone, right?
N.O.V.A. 2 was top notch also...till the switched from a halo clone to a crisis 3 clone with N.O.V.A. 3.
Miss those old dalvik system games that are unplayable now.
Still got mine!
Probably my favourite TH-cam channel :)
That dead space for phone was really ahead of its time. Damn... its already a decade old
I had that phone and would definitly buy an updated version.
"i know where you live" had me dying bro lmao
I had this on day one, super wiped for it, used the OnLive service on it, used to put my friends of the rails playing Dirt 2 and Homefront on it. But the lock button gave problem... Bought a Xperia Z1 and it was and experience (no pun intended). Sony actually made amazing phones, but i guess the UI design really put some peps off. Still have all my experia's, but you just can't beat Samsung now a days.
I really feel like if they released new version of this phone, it would fly off the shelf.
I remember playing xperia console all my scholarity
The storage of 400mbs is a big oof. The iPhone 4s which came out the same year started out at 8GB for the cheapest model. 400mb is pathetic
Yeah lack of storage, support from Sony and lack of power
It wasnt middle of the road when it came out. It was obsolete hardware from 2 years prior when it came out. This came out after the Galaxy s3, had the same price in europe and a quarter of the specs. Performance wise, it was even weaker than that said quarter.
surprise to see that 2011 games have better graphics than today's mobile games
Yeah, nonsense like the backbone are what force me to carry around a backpack everywhere. When the Xperia Play was my daily driver, all I needed was a pocket!
Games are much enjoyable those years. Today's Games are full of Ads and need Pay-to-Win
xperia phone ...i miss you so much
Gameboid was always my favorite gba emulator
I was a big fan of the XP and would 100% buy a XP2 if Sony made one
What I don't understand is why either they never made a new one for today's market or companies didn't follow suit
Always wanted this phone!
My first smartphone
Original aspect ratio looks the best
I still use my boy !
This Masterpiece Of Tech Should Have Been Made I 2024
""...it feels really really stiff", that's what she said" 😂 1:32
So when are you going to do that hair tutorial?
Asphalt 6 Adrenaline spotted 💪💪💪1:32
Heck yeah.
i never knew they had a phone
Sony is still making phones actually, now with high quality cams as their main gimmick
@@milk-ub9zoisnt that just all phones?
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 Well Sony makes it their main marketing point that the cameras are way advanced and actually allows you to access more in-depth settings (iso, shutter, etc)
If psp comes with phone like this now every1 will be buying it
But can it run flappy bird without being launched at a wall?
They should remake it with sd8 gen 3 Hardware
anyone gunna talk about how he has og phone apps😮
i would kill to have physical gaming buttons on my phone.
Could you do a video on a hacked x box 360 next please
for a phone from 2011, it runs games good.
Why doesn’t it work for phone calls? I had a brick phone that was still good for calls two or three years ago. Although, I didn’t use it for anything as I’d long since upgraded so maybe it wasn’t working
I vote for filling up the whole screen 😅
Where can i download all thise old Android games. I used to play them but now they are no more available on any place. Any official links to get them!!??
Still got mine
13:42 is that mabel from gravity falls
Please stop saying 'commoonity'. It sounds ridiculous. Oher than that, great video. I've still got my Playstation phone - I just wish Sony had supported it a bit more, and given it more storage.
Also, everyone forgets about the Sony Ericsson slider java phone they released a few years prior. It had a D-pad below the screen for selecting items from menus, etc. And above the screen, it had two buttons marked X & O. if you then played the phone in it's horizontal game mode, you had a little handheld console. Quite why more manufacturers didn't think to use that idea is a lot oppertunity.
Yeah I used to own one but sold it soon after as it didn’t have much onboard storage and also found it way to chunky and heavy to carry around in my pocket every day got Samsung galaxy s2 instead I would love a more powerful slimmer modern version
omg that 400 meg internal storage fucking suuuuucked,, i had a friend who had a galaxy 2,, and it was 16gig of internal storage,, i would constantly have to delete apps. as they would not let me run them off the sd card.. it was so frustrating.
do the gba and snes emulators still have the weird input lag
I prefer original aspect ratio, because I’m not a monster.
Imagine if they tried this again nowadays
60fps on a phone this old is insane
I wish i have that
This was my first smartphone ever, and I seem to have less fond memories of it than this videeo remembers lol, I remember it running ike shit and basically only functioning correctly with games lol
Sony is missing such an giant opportunity
I want a controller that sildes out like that
Just for my phone
retroarch is nice because i am a newbie its nice for emulator
Fascinating
do have link for all the roms so i can get?
How do you install a file browser or APK by command prompt?
I remember that I had one until my so called friend stole it
the only problems is that the games is more expensive then original games:(
We need PS phone 2
I need a modern slide phone with physical controls…
I love my Xperia Play…❤💔🪦
I just realized ive got a Retroid Pocket Flip that ive only turned on once…
💀
The real gaming phone
Damnit Jeff I like your videos, keep it up pal
PS has always been ahead of the curve. This plus the PSP would be very successful today i believe. They released too soon. And yea now Nintendo capitalizes off of what Sony started.