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Good news for heavy mobile gamers with a brand new Sony Xperia S smartphone – you can now access the PlayStation Store from your smartphone. Simply tap the PS store placeholder link in the app tray and you’ll be redirected to a web page from where you can/should download the PlayStation Store and PS Pocket apps.
Before that you need to make sure third-party apps can be installed on your Xperia S by hitting Settings -> Applications and then checking “Allow installation of non-Market applications.” You’re almost ready to go, after you get yourself a PlayStation Network or Sony Entertainment Network account which is required to access Sony’s gaming catalog. Yeah all this sounds like a pain, but it’s really not that complicated.
Presuming you’ve followed all the steps, you will now be able to access about a dozen PlayStation games, though some of them are reportedly available for Xperia Play only. Guess that will change soon alongside support for additional Sony PlayStation-certified devices like the Xperia P, Xperia U, Xperia Ion and the brand new Xperia sola…
[Via: AndroidCentral]
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
