For those who can’t wait for the Xperia Play, aka the PlayStation phone, Sony have released the PlayStation app, which should keep you going, sort of any way.The first version of the official PlayStation App lets you check your PlayStation Network tropies, while keeping up with your friends and lets you see if your friends are online. You can also keep up with the latest news, hardware and latest games, as well as reading the latest announcements. Only updates posted on the European PlayStation blog will be displayed as the app is only available in Europe at the moment. You will also be able to share the news, or products with your friends via email, Facebook or Twitter.

Compatible countries are: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and The Netherlands, with support for other countries coming in future updates. The app is available for Android handsets running Android 1.6 and above. Sony have also released the app for the iPod Touch and iPhone.

While many users would love for the Xperia X10 to get Android 2.2 on their X10, with some users even signing an online petition. It appears that 2.2, for now at least, isn’t as good as it could be. That is, if you have the developers version anyway and have installed it on your handset. Which likewise, many X10 owners would love to do.

It appears that users who have upgraded to Android 2.2 using the developers version, instead of the handset specific version when released, is causing some apps to not appear in the Android Market. NYTimes, Epicurious, Calorie Counter and FlightTrack are missing from the Market Place since upgrading. However if you had the app installed before hand, it should continue working. Other users are reporting that they are unable to install apps purchased prior to the update, due to an option called “Forward Locking”. App developers may add this to prevent the apps from being copied, as well as disabling the app installing ability for developer or unreleased versions of Android.

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The Android Market will be adding PayPal as an additional payment option when purchasing paid apps. This is great news if you’re not a fan of Google Checkout and even better news for those who can’t use Google Checkout in their country. The PayPal payment option will be added in the next few weeks. Support will be available for the following countries upon release; UK, Canada, Australia, France, Italy, the Netherlands and of course the United States. The time frame indicates that US support will also be added before the X10 is released there, so once you get your hands on it, you can start paying for apps with PayPal straight away.

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