A
gaming handset refers to a mobile phone that is specifically designed and optimized for playing video games.
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This is a
perfect gaming handset, during your daily commute to the office, or just relaxing at home on weekends.
It's a familiar notion: Nokia's N -
Gage gaming handset and later multi-phone platform worked on similar lines.
I like the overall concept of the Xperia PLAY — one of the only companies in the world that could pull off a
pure gaming handset is Sony Ericsson — and this is a valiant first effort in the space.
From Nokia's N - Gage in 2003 and its N - Gage QD revision to the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play in 2011 and last year's Razer Phone,
gaming handsets often struggled to compete with their more regular counterparts in terms of basic functionalities, usually because their physical controls required major design compromises.
Gaming The handset supports 2 point multi touch, this is the only disadvantage, though not a very big issue but gaming experience specially with games like Modern Combat 5 etc, might not be that comfortable.
Xiaomi confirmed its investment in Black Shark, but it is still unclear whether the
upcoming gaming handset will carry Xiaomi's branding or not.
Looks like computer accessory company Logitech plans to expand its presence on the gaming headset market as it has just announced acquisition of another popular
console gaming handset maker Astro Gaming.
O2 Tweeted its plan to offer
the gaming handset, and the other three networks are saying much the same thing if asked.
Some developers have managed to successfully port Ice Cream Sandwich over to
the gaming handset.
Several other smartphone manufacturers are said to be working on gaming smartphones, and all that started (rumors and reports) when Razer released
its gaming handset, the Razer Phone.
However when it comes to
gaming the handset can play many high end games.
Even though the above e-mail was sent out last night, it appears
the gaming handset is already sold out.
Gaming The handset is powerful and the benchmark scores are impressive, no doubt all games that can be played on MediaTek processor will easily run on the Grand.