Modify your Xperia Play into Xperia S with UI Mod

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Launched last year, Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is a most unique android device (aka Playstation Phone). It was a significant step forward in mobile gaming officially, but unfortunately didn’t get many takers as it also suffers from key hardware limitations.

Running one Android device skinned UI on a very unlike android device is always seems as an interesting experience. Experiencing what another android device user feel in comparison to what you’re already using is pretty cool thing and feels good to show your friends the versatility of Android. Even the simplest modifications can make a big difference to some users; some modifications completely change the look and feel of an Android phone. It’s something happen with Xperia Play; XDA Forum Member jjkkyu has ported Xperia S UI and other goodies to Xperia Play. Users carrying Xperia Play can now check out most of the UI and applications from Xperia S in your Play Station Device.

The mod includes:-

1. Xperia S style UI.
2.Xperia S home lancher(modded to seven pages).
3.Xperia S system app icons.
4.Xperia S style phonebook, credit to Soheil_rf.
5.Xperia S music player(Equilizier, SenseMe, Stereo, xLOUD all working).
6.Xperia S Timescape and new Timescape widgets.
7.Xperia S weather, switch tool, clock, music, smartcontacts widgets.
8.Xperia S brower, email, calender, clock, calculator, power saver.
9.Xperia S system default wallpapers.
10.Xperia S system default livewallpapers(CosmicFlow & LiveEarth).
11.Xperia S boot animation(Xperia logo).
12.Xperia S closing charge animation.
13.Xperia S Chinese keyboard.

Apart from Xperia S UI, the mod also features Timescape and the ability to restore home screens to 5 and comes in a form of update.zip so installation is easy to do.Xperia Play users running on Android 2.3.4 (42/58/62) FW can move further and check out the original xda developer thread.