It's not a PlayStation Phone. No, really. In fact you won't find the PlayStation logo anywhere on the thing. It's rather an Android "Gingerbread" slide-bottom phone (with PSP-style controls, admittedly a first) that can play PlayStation games.

Well, "PlayStation Certified" games, which means stuff developed using Sony's recently announced , a library of game development tools intended to bring PlayStation software to a much broader array of mobile devices. In other words, Xperia Play is just the beginning.

As anticipated, Xperia Play features a 4-inch multitouch 854 by 480 pixel LCD screen, a Qualcomm MSM8655 chipset with a single core processor capable of clocking from 123MHz up to 1GHz, an Adreno 205 GPU, 512MB of RAM, dual cameras, and a slide-bottom gamepad with PSP-style controls to either side of an oblong touchpad accessed with your thumbs (think thumb-nubs without the nubs).

Games designed for the phone should look pretty sharp on this sort of hardware, though nothing like , which sports processing architecture several orders of magnitude more powerful.

In a move sure to induce yawns from serious gamers, Sony's Kazuo Hirai said the phone would come preloaded with "legendary" PS One games. For those who don't know what a PS One is, remember the original 1994 PlayStation? That.