Oh, woe is us. Or, to be more precise, woe is us if we would have liked the Xperia Play at the UK’s O2 network at the day of its release, April 1st . The British carrier has been candid in admitting it found software bugs at the Play and is holding back release of the gamer-friendly device until those were ironed out. We appreciate its effort in “testing the telephone non-stop for weeks” and its reluctance to snatch a handy guide a rough buck by releasing imperfectly baked goods, but a big question remains — if this isn’t an O2-specific software problem, and we’ve heard no peep of O2 customizing the Android 2.3 build at the device, why aren’t any other carriers signaling the same delay? Vodafone remains aiming to deliver UK pre-orders by April 5th and there appears to be no indication of flawed software from others. Only thing we will be able to call to mind, on account that O2 has the white Xperia Play exclusive , is that the white phone curse has struck again.
[Thanks, Ed ]
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