For the past month or so, the web portals of rife with users of mobile phones all over making fervent enquiries about the release date, price can product details about the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. Originally code named the Sony Ericsson Zeus Z1, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is gearing up for a official unveiling at the Mobile World Congress scheduled to be held in the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain some time in February, 2011. It is believed that after this event, the Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker duo will eventually release it in the mobile phone market place in UK in March or April, 2011. At least, this much is clear that Sony Ericsson has decided to give this PlayStation smarty its famed Xperia branding.

Sony Ericsson has already trademarked the name Xperia Play in the European markets. Hence, at least this much seems a certainty. The network service providers operating here – O2, Orange, 3 Mobile, T-Mobile, Vodafone and Virgin Mobile – all eagerly looking forward to welcoming the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play with open and warm hands though various Sony Ericsson Xperia Play deals that would include plenty of contract phone deals, SIM free deals and even pay as you go mobile phone offers.

Of these network service providers, it does became clearer with each passing day that it will be, in all probability, Orange and T-Mobile network carriers who will have the privilege of selling this PlayStation smart phone handset from Sony Ericsson.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play will have the latest Android 2.3 operating system running its various functions along with the powerful 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor driving it along pretty smoothly. The handset will have the pre-installed PlayStation application that will help it access the handset’s gaming functionality. Meanwhile, the market place is abuzz with excitement about the imminent launch of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play through some down to earth priced Xperia Play contract deals.