Phone 4 gaming

[Typhlosion]

Being inspired by the recent thread on phone, I remembered I wanted a gaming phone.

Currently I own a LG Optimus L7 which *almost* emulates NDS games and a tablet that emulates NDS well but *almost* emulates PSP. Two problems: it doesn't emulate NDS (I feel that PSP is a tad too much) and the on-screen buttons can be kinda awkward, especially when you need to do diagonals, use L&R or fast-paced games. It isn't a bad phone, however, with 1GHz CPUand 512MB RAM.

Unless I'm missing something, the Xperia Play wouldn't be a good choice for an upgrade, but it does have that dandy slide-down game pad. Are there any other (better) phones with a similar slide-down game pad?

There still are some slide-down qwerty phones being made AFAIK. Are these "keyboards" any good for gaming? Are there any powerful slide-down phones?

Or should I just keep mine?

Thanks for reading :3

[Cook my Sock]

Oh God I had an Optimus l7 and it was awful, so I bought a Nexus 5 instead and that's the phone I'll recommend to you. It's quad core 2.3hz Snapdragon 800 CPU and andreo 330 GPU + 2GB RAM and it's relatively cheap Nexus 5 (http://www.google.co.uk/nexus/5/). And you could also buy a moga gamepad (http://www.mogaanywhere.com) as well for gaming.

[Thatcarguy]

I got a nexus 5 and i could t recommend it any more unless you wait a couple of months for the next nexus to come out.

[Microcosm]

I have a galaxy s3 but I don't really try to emulate on it. I'll look that up. Right now I just play PvZ and other phone games on it.