Just doing my part to try and start some buzz:

[Rumor] Xperia Play 2 under Construction | AndroidSPIN

http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/games/2012/02/02/gorgeous-arcade-classic-dragons-lair-launches-on-xperia-play/

I think it's only $4.99 on the Android Market

Look everyone, Sony created a blog just on games for the Xperia phones!!!

Xperia

I really did a search THIS TIME, before posting:

Way back in December Rockstar released GTA3 for Android. The really BIG news was that they actually optimized it for the Xperia Play. In the original press release the Xperia Play was NOT included.

Now it's not perfect AND you can not reassign the keys but it's STILL AWESOME!!! Also, version 1.0 seems to wrok the best on the Play

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rockstar.gta3ger

Although Samsung scored a victory against Apple's lawsuits recently, things are looking grim for HTC, and in fact, if things get worse, it could have far reaching consequences for Android in general. In July, an ITC administrative law judge ruled that HTC was in violation of two of Apple's patents. HTC appealed the decision, and that appeal (which was originally scheduled to be heard today, December 6th) will be heard on December 14th. If the judge rules in Apple's favor, it could have dire ramifications.

What makes this situation so important is the particular patents that are being infringed upon. These patents are at the very core of Android OS design. For reference, here are the patents:

• U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647 on a "system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data" (in its complaint, Apple provides examples such as the recognition of "phone numbers, post-office addresses and dates" and the ability to perform "related actions with that data"; one example is that "the system may receive data that includes a phone number, highlight it for a user, and then, in response to a user's interaction with the highlighted text, offer the user the choice of making a phone call to the number")
• U.S. Patent No. 6,343,263 on a "real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data" (while this sounds like a pure hardware patent, there are various references in it to logical connections, drivers, programs; in its complaint, Apple said that this patent "relates generally to providing programming abstraction layers for real-time processing applications")

The problem is, because these patents are so broad and general, if HTC ends up having infringed upon them, then so has every other manufacturer that uses Android. Here's a statement from FOSS Patent's, Florian Mueller that he wrote after last summer's ruling,

"Google's Android mobile operating system is in serious trouble. It's hard to see how any Android device could not infringe [the patents], or how companies could work around

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