A leaked photo of the new Sony Ericsson Xperia Duo surfaced last month, and now we have some more press shots of what is rumored to be Sony Ericsson’s flagship smartphone due later this year. The phone will come with Android Gingerbread and is expected to go on sale in September.

Some of the rumored specifications include a dual core 1.4GHz processor, 1.5GB of RAM, 4.5 inch qHD display, and Sony’s next generation Exmore sensor that may come with 12 megpixels. Not bad at all.

Good news for folks in the UK. If you have a spare £350, Sony Ericsson’s Xperia ray has just gone up for pre-order on Play.com. It will be released on August 15th and comes in four colors. Though sadly you can only order the black version right now.

Some specs include, Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), 1Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 512MB RAM, 300MB of storage and a 854 x 480 Reality Display + BRAVIA.

Sony Ericsson has introduced the Sony Ericsson Txt Pro which focuses mostly on messaging and social networking. It comes with a friends application that lets you add 5 best friends and you can then instantly view Facebook and Twitter posts and updates.

It also packs in a 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, microUSB, WiFi and a 3.5mm audio jack. Look for it in Q3 this year for an unknown price.

The new SGPT113JP/S and SGPT114JP/S tablets that just passed through the FCC are variants of the S1 tablet, the 9.4-inch tablet with Android 3.x Honeycomb and custom-made “Quick and Smooth” UI and “Swift” web browser.

Other features include 2.4GHz 802.11n WiFi and WCDMA bands II and V radios, and an Ericsson F5521gw HSPA+ capable modem that’s mentioned. The PlayStation Certified tablet will arrive later in the fall for an unknown price.

Here’s some good news for mobile gamers. Verizon Wireless has announced that it will start accepting pre-orders on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play starting this Thursday on May 19th and you can expect the Xperia Play to go on sale on May 26th.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play will cost $199.99 with a new 24 month contract with Verizon. Once you do that you will be rocking a 4 inch multitouch display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels, a 1GHz Qualcomm processor and an Adreno 205 GPU and 512MB of RAM. We can’t wait.

Tuesday was supposed to be the day for the launch of Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play Android gaming smartphone for Vodafone New Zealand. But there was a problem. Turns out there was a major security breach and thieves made off with the launch shipment of handsets.

The mobile operator notified its customers via its official Facebook page, posting the following message with a photo of a damaged Vodafone store: [Vodafone New Zealand regrets] to advise the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY launch will be delayed due to a major security breach. The launch shipment of phones has been stolen.

Xperia blog has some new images of what it claims is a new Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot cellphone. Not surprisingly, the photos are pretty blurry, but they show both the Sony Ericsson brand name and the Cyber-shot logo. There also appears to be three buttons common to Android OS phones.

This is by no means official, but we have no reason not to believe it so far and Cyber-shot fans have been waiting for a new Android-based version of the cellphone with high quality imaging and resolution. Sony executives have so far refused to comment. Interesting.

Sony Ericsson has just added a new device to the Xperia line of mobile phones, the Xperia acro. This handset is designed specially for users in Japan and packs in a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and Android’s Gingerbread 2.3.

That’s not all. The phone also has an extra wide 4.2” screen, an 8.1 megapixel camera with Exmor R for mobiles, enabling users to capture low-noise, high quality images and HD video (720p) and there’s also TV-viewing, a mobile-wallet and more. Lucky Japanese.

We’ve all been waiting for Sony Ericsson’s new gaming smartphone and now it looks like the Xperia Play will go on sale in the UK on March 31st. The Xperia Play will come with six games installed at launch and UK customers can expect it on Thursday the 31st of March, for a still unknown price.

Sony Ericsson says that the Xperia Play will have the biggest UK marketing campaign ever, so get ready for mega advertising. The games that are included at launch are Fifa 10, The Sims 3, Tetris, Bruce Lee Dragon Warriors, Start Battalion and Crash Bandicoot. There will be fifty different games available to download at launch through Sony’s PlayStation suite, so you will have plenty to play with more coming.

Looks like Sony has been working on a couple of tablets. Come on, you knew they had to get into the game eventually right? The first is a 9.4-inch Android 3.0 tablet known as the “S1″ (codename). Sony has been busy customizing Matias Duarte’s Honeycomb interface to its own specification. And Sony’s work is said to be cutting edge, created by an engineering team spanning Sony’s VAIO, Reader, PlayStation, and Sony Ericsson product groups.

Though the team is lead by the VAIO organization, it will probably launch without VAIO branding. It is also said that Sony’s custom-built transitions and UI elements have created a user experience that sometimes rivals and improves on the iPad’s. The tablet is 100 percent focused on Qriocity, Sony’s music, games, ebooks, and videos on demand service that’s just been launched in Europe.

According to Wirefly, the upcoming “PlayStation Phone” aka the Xperia Play from Sony Ericsson will be sold by Verizon when it arrives in the US. If that is accurate, Verizon customers have some tough choices to make. There’s the iPhone 4, Thunderbolt and now the Xperia Play all arriving on their network.

Decisions, decisions. This one does have a slide out gamepad, Android 2.3 and the PlayStation Suite. Which one do you get?

We have some new news on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. It is at last official. In fact, the Xperia Play will be one of the first devices announced at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Check out that beautiful front shot of the Gingerbread-running smartphone. Isn’t she lovely? She’s packing all the power of a PS3 in a nice tight body. Yeah, she’s a looker alright. I’d make her official too if I were Sony Ericsson. Reeeaaaal official….Gigitty.

According to Asahi Shimbun, the PlayStation Phone is expected in the spring of 2011 for a North American and European release. That timeframe fits with what we have been hearing and while we don’t know what Sony Ericsson has for CES, they’re planning some new Xperia-branded models for MWC. I guess we will find out soon.

We also still don’t know how any of this ties into the standalone PSP2, or how gaming titles will be purchased. We still don’t know a lot of things, but hopefully soon we will learn.

Looks like Sony Ericsson will unveil the Playstation phone at Mobile World Congress 2011. We just learned that it will likely be called the Xperia Play. I guess we won’t be seeing it at CES 2011 after all, but that’s okay. We have plenty to look at there.

We can tell you that the Playstation Phone will not officially arrive at least until April of next year. Some reported specs include a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 processor, 512MB RAM, and 1GB ROM.

So what will the new Playstation Phone be called? Well, a trademark filling was spotted and it looks like Sony will call it the Xperia Play. Adding some credence to this, the company’s PR firm has registered various Xperia Play domain names, such as XperiaPlay.com, .net, and .org.

Sounds like a good name to us. Hopefully we will learn more very soon since CES is just around the corner. Until then just continue drooling. It won’t be long.