Well, we knew it was coming , and tonight at CTIA we finally got our dirty little hands on Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play for Verizon. It’s almost always what we expected: an Xperia Play that’s lacking a SIM slot but displaying a number of Verizon tattoos logos. Front-facing camera remains to be at the menu, together with a delectable serving of Gingerbread — Android 2.3.2, to be exact. Strangely, the custom skin we saw during our hands-on at MWC was nowhere to be found on Verizon’s model, being replaced instead by what seems to be the stock Gingerbread UI with some Sony Ericsson wallpapers and widgets. The Xperia Play app was on full display at the demo phones, which came preloaded with Ashphalt 6, Bruce Lee, Crash Bandicoot, Star Battalion, Madden ’11, and The Sims 3. Take a peek at our gallery below, and poke your well beyond the break for our hands-on video.
Chris Ziegler contributed to this report.
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