Xperia Play PS phone spotted in China

Apparently the PlayStation phone, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, has been spotted for sale in China.

The Register Hardware reports that ePrice, a website in Taiwan, received a tip from a reader on the mainland that the handset was available. Sending someone to investigate, they discovered this was indeed the case.

And took a bucket-load of pictures, which appear to be of the genuine hardware, to prove it. Check them out here. As has been previously rumoured, it seems the device has a 4 inch display, 1GHz processor and it runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).

With the handset apparently finished and ready to go, as we speculated this morning, a Mobile World Congress launch seems like it’s definitely on the cards.

Rumour also has it that in the UK, Orange will carry the Xperia Play.