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The Sony Xperia GX

In recent months, there have been leaked details and photos of Sony’s new smartphone called the LT29i Hayabusa. Sony recently designated the Hayabusa as the Sony Xperia GX and it is developed specifically for Japanese consumers.

The GX will be one of Sony’s first LTE smartphones in the market and users may expect a data connection speed of up to 75Mbps. Sony’s new handset will feature a 4.6” HD display, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 16GB of onboard storage and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). The Sony Xperia GX’s biggest highlight could be the 13Mp rear-facing camera, which supports full-HD video recording.

The Japan-based electronic giant is also introducing new unique apps for the phone. The Walkman app is aimed to bring superior audio experience. The Movies app offers high quality audio video movie playback and the Album app offers an efficient way if managing high quality multimedia files.

The smartphone also has a highly optimized Facebook app that allows users to view posts, make comment and share photos smoothly.

Sony Xperia SX Preview

A Sony’s new smartphone has just made its entry and it is claimed to be the lightest 4G LTE available in the market. At a mere 95 grams or 3.35 ounces, the Sony XPeria SX is definitely very light. Unfortunately, the company is planning to keep its lightweight champ on Japanese soil only.

To keep its weight low, Sony uses a relatively small 3.7” qHD display, which uses the BRAVIA engine to produce more vibrant colors. Like its bigger brethren, the Sony Xperia SX uses the same 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Design wise, you won’t find anything unappealing; we are looking at a typical minimalist, rectangular slab.

The phone is also bringing a decent 8Mp rear-facing camera which supports 3D panoramic photography. Additionally, the Exmor R technology allows users to snap better photos at low-light environments. There’s an 8 GB of onboard storage and the 1.3Mp front-facing camera should be adequate for video calling. The Sony Xperia SX is slated for release on summer this year in Japan and there’s no word whether it will make its way to other countries.

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The Sony Xperia Neo L will be joining the already significant Sony Xperia lineup and it will be launched with Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) preinstalled. Sony billed it as the direct successor to Neo handsets.

The Sony Xperia Neo L is powered by 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon single-core processor and 512MB of RAM. The 4” capacitive display has 480×854 pixels resolution, while the 1GB of internal storage is supplemented by an external memory slot that supports up to 32GB of microSD card. On the front side, users can get a VGA camera, while a 5Mp camera sits on the back. The 1500mAH battery offers 8 hours of talk time and 7 hours of continuous data connection to 3G network.

The integrated Sony xLoud audio enhancement technology delivers a unique music experience, which can’t easily be found on smartphones with similar hardware configuration. The Sony Xperia Neo L is decidedly a mid range handset and the preloaded Android 4.0 is definitely a plus, as many mid-range models still use Gingerbread (Android 2.3). There’s no information on pricing or release date; and the phone is likely for release only in China.

Sony Xperia Neo L Features and Specifications:

Platform:

• Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

General:

• 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• 3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100

Body

• Dimensions 121 x 61.1 x 12.2 mm
• Weight 131.5 g

Display

• Type LED-backlit LCD, capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
• Size 480 x 854 pixels, 4.0 inches (~245 ppi pixel density)
• Multitouch Yes, up to 4 fingers
• Timescape UI

Sound

• Alert types Vibration; MP3 ringtones
• Loudspeaker
• 3.5mm jack

Memory

• Card slot microSD, up to 32GB
• Internal 1 GB storage (300 MB user available), 512 MB RAM

Battery

• Standard battery, Li-Po 1500 mAh
• Stand-by Up to 575 h (2G) / Up to 410 h (3G)
• Talk time Up to 7 h 53 min (2G) / Up to 7 h 9 min (3G)
• Music play Up to 37 h

Data

• GPRS Up to 80 kbps
• EDGE Up to 237 kbps
• Speed HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
• WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
• Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
• microUSB v2.0

Camera

• Primary 5 MP, 2592?1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
• Features Video calling, touch focus, geo-tagging
• Video, 720p@30fps, video light, VGA

Features

• TimeScape,
• Infinite Button
• Chipset Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon
• CPU 1 GHz Scorpion
• GPU Adreno 205
• Sensors Accelerometer, proximity, compass
• Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM, Push Email
• Browser HTML5, Adobe Flash
• GPS with A-GPS support
• Java via Java MIDP emulator
• Colors Black, White

Misc. Features:

• SNS integration
• MP4/H.264/WMV player
• MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player
• TrackID music recognition
• Organizer
• Document viewer
• Voice memo/dial/commands
• Predictive text input

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ST21i Tapioca will be Sony’s next new entry smartphone this year. The phone will run Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) and powered by 800MHz Qualcomm CPU. Recently leaked images show that smartphone looks bit stubby and has rounded corners.

Sony has a way of making its cheaper devices feels palm-friendly and looks entry-level. The Xperia Mini and the subsequent, Xperia Mini Pro are two good examples. The Tapioca shares some physical characteristics with the Xperia Mini and the Motorola Droid X.

The 800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 processor and the Adreno 200 GPU were commonly used on mid-range smartphones at the end of 2010, but with the appearance of dual-core and quad-core processors, they are now considered as parts of low-end configuration.

Apart from those, the smartphone will feature a 3.2” (320×480) display with 512 MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage. Packing a 1460mAh battery, the phone can last for one whole day with moderate use. At the back are 3Mp camera and it’s unlikely if Tapioca will have a camera on the front.

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After 10 years in business together the two will part ways,  Sony Ericsson partnership comes to an end; Sony has decided to buy out long time mobile phone partners Ericsson with Sony paying Ericsson over 1.05 billion Euros for the remaining 50 per cent stake in the company. Lately Sony announced its various Xperia smart phones in which Xperia ion is going to be launched in US with AT&T carrier as confirmed by AT&T, also a similar phone named Xperia S is also announced in other continents & will be soon in US too. The phones are nearly similar apart from looks. Xperia Ion is Sony’s first Smartphone which has the capability to connect to all new LTE 4G Network. The LTE 4G networks allow phones to connect to internet and surf various website at lightning speed.

The device has impressive looks & comes with 1280 x 720 pixels delivering splendid & colorful graphics. It comes 12MP rear camera with LED flash & autofocus which is genuinely a very good camera giving out HD stills & 1080HD video recording, the front camera is 1.3MP which is sufficient for video calling with face detection. The smart phone consisting 1GB ram mortised with 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Dual Core processor which is above in comparison with an average Smartphone. It comes with 16GB built in memory expandable up to 32 GB via memory card. The Ion is equipped with all latest connectivity capabilities like HDMI port and compatible dock cable, so you can connect it to your HDTV for games, movies & messaging too. Apart from this it also carries mobile version of its Bravia engine to display all graphics, the very same technology used in Sony bravia HDTV.

Again the android based platform with 2.3 gingerbread & amazing thing about this it’s upgradable to 4.0 ice-cream sandwich later, so no worries for apps android world is has tons of apps always waiting. There are a number of tweaks to the interface but for the most part it’s a fairly standard Android experience that’s slick and easy to use. The phone is expected to be out in second quarter of 2012 & seems a good deal.

Sony Xperia ion demo video

This is a demo video showing the all new Xperia™ ion, which will be available on the US market, and carried exclusively by AT&T. Xperia™ ion is the first Xperia™ LTE smartphone, and it features a 1.5 GHz dual core processor with Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 Mobile Processor, 1 GB RAM, a 4.6-inch, 720×1280 resolution reality display, 12 MP camera with Exmor R™ mobile sensor, NFC, and much more!

Sony Xperia ION Key specifications:

Networks

• GSM EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900
• UMTS HSPA+ 850, 1900, 2100
• LTE Band IV and Band XVII

OS & Processor

• Google Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
• 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Dual Core processor

Display

• 4.55”, 1280 x 720 pixels 16M color TFT
• Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA® Engine
• Scratch-resistant, shatter proof sheet on mineral glass
• Screenshot capturing

Memory

• RAM: 1GB
• Flash memory: 16GB eMMC
• Expansion slot: microSD, up to 32GB

Camera

• 12.1 megapixel camera with LED flash and Auto focus
• Sony’s Exmor™ R for mobile CMOS sensor
• HD video recording (1080p)
• 3D Sweep Panorama
• Accelerated Adobe Flash Video
• Front-facing camera (1.3 megapixel, 720p)
• Face detection

Entertainment

• xLOUD Experience – audio filter technology from Sony
• FM Radio with RDS
• 3.5 mm audio jack for headphones
• Audio playback, supported formats: MP3, 3GPP, MP4, SMF, WAV, OTA, Ogg vorbis
• Audio recording, supported formats: 3GPP, MP4, AMR
• 3D and motion gaming
• Timescape with Twitter integrated
• Facebook inside Xperia 2.0
• Sony Entertainment Network
• TV launcher
• Shazam™ service

Connectivity and communication

• USB High speed 2.0 and Micro USB support
• WiFi and WiFi Hotspot functionality
• HDMI Support
• DLNA Certified
• Synchronisation via Exchange ActiveSync, Google Sync and Facebook
• aGPS
• WebKit web browser with Pan & zoom
• Bluetooth technology
• Native USB tethering
• NFC
• ANT+ technology

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Since it broke away from Ericsson recently, Sony is busy reorganizing its mobile business. Recently, they announced the release of a new smartphone called the Xperia Nero L. With 1 GHz Snapdragon MSM8255 single core processor and Adreno 205 GPU, the Sony Xperia Neo L is definitely not a high end device. The smartphone is also known as MT25i and it has a 4″ WVGA display, 1 GB of internal storage and 512 MB of RAM. It also features a VGA snapper on the front and a 5Mp shooter on the rear, which can record 720p videos.

The new handset looks quite similar to the Xperia Play, except for the lack of joypad. The Xperia Nero L also has similar hardware buttons like the Xperia play. Size-wise, the smartphone measure 120x61x12.8 millimeter, which is roughly similar to the dimension of the Xperia Play, except it is 3 mm slimmer.

What will go down quite nicely with owners of the Xperia Nero L, is the use of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). The availability of the latest Android straight out of the box will eliminate the need for a future update. Recently Sony released the Xperia U, Xperia S and Xperia P, which came with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the company is in the process of rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich update for many Xperia smartphones.

The phone is delivered initially for the Chinese market and when it finally ventures to the US or UK shores, it will be designated as a budget phone.

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A very sporty and pretty addition to the Xperia series of the Sony Ericsson mobile phones, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active has lately been announced and with its entry, the mobile phone manufacturer is surely to make a good business in the industry again. People with an active lifestyle and those of the youngsters are going to be impressed by the concept, feature structure and functioning of the handset quite a lot as right from the look to the designing of the internal and external portion; the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active is striking. So, in short this is a compact phone that fits really well with this fast-pacing and wild world through all its advanced and latest range of features.

A count of the best specifications of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active starts with the Google Android 2.3 OS incorporated in the phone. Then, there are is a set of other features like:

• A dust proof and water resistant body
• 1Ghz processor
• A 2GB memory card included
• Wet finger tracking capacity
• Mobile BRAVIA Engine
• Media player
• TrackID music recognition
• PlayNow service and so on

The phone has such a powerful and feature-jammed camera that after going though the features sported by it, you will never feel like or will have to think about getting a digital camera. The 5MP camera integrated in the phone packs Red-eye reduction, 8x digital zoom, Flash/Photo light, auto focus, touch focus, face detection and recognition, smile detection, geo tagging, self-timer and HD video recording (720p) and scene detection and lots many functionalities.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Active has some other rarely found unique features as well. You can use it for staying healthy and for maintaining a good and disease-free heath for which the phone has amazing applications like iMapMyFitness app through which you can monitor your heart and pulse rate and maintain a regular record. This way, the usefulness and easy handling of the phone by the users have been given the most of the importance while designing it.

Needless to say, there are a pile of other useful features as well in the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active all of which altogether creates an impressive image of the handset. Moreover, the external appearance of the handset too is countable enough for which it can give a fair fight to its competitors. So, with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active, it is now time that you behave active and live active.

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Sony’s Play Station Portable gaming console has a pretty long history now, and it was very popular back in its day. However, times change and now, mobile gaming means “playing games on your smartphone”, as opposed to a dedicated gaming device. Indeed, who would want to carry both an iPhone and a PSP with them, when the games for the iPhone are just as good as those on the console, and can be played anytime, anywhere?

The PSP gets a new life in the NGP

Sure enough, PSP sales declined steadily for the past couple of years, and Sony decided it’s time to abandon ship and get into the new smartphone gaming market with their PlayStation Phone, which runs Android and is a pretty good platform for mobile gaming, reminding of the PSP Go, only with all the great features of Android and a smartphone.

But it seems that the PSP will live, surprisingly, since Sony announced and demonstrated their new Next Generation PlayStation, or NGP, portable gaming console. And when I say portable, I mean “portable”, not “mobile”, as the thing is bigger than the original PSP, and while you can carry it around in a bag, it sure won’t fit well in any pocket on your clothing.

But that is the whole point of the new NGP – it is meant to be a gaming console for pretty serious gamers (who don’t find the performance or usability of a smartphone adequate) that can be used anywhere, without sacrificing connectivity, graphics quality and game playability. And that is a lot to ask of a portable console, if you ask me.

Amazing hardware specs that simply scream “gaming device”

Fortunately, the NGP is up to the task – it features a big 5 inch touch screen (yes, touch screen!) with an almost doubled resolution of 960×544 (compared to the PSP) and 16.7 million colors for the best graphics quality possible, an ARM Cortex A9 QUAD core processor and the new SGX543MP4+ (a mouthful, I know) video graphics adapter, which also has FOUR cores and is the fastest mobile graphics solution on the market (it’s at least twice as fast as the GeForce in the Tegra 2), with support for anti-aliasing and the newest rendering technologies.

And if the tech specs aren’t enough on paper, you can get real world proof by watching the few game demos, including the popular Uncharted, being played on the NGP with wonderful graphics and no performance issues whatsoever (even though the game is a quick port from the PS3 for demo purposes!).

An integrated cell phone and the same overall size and form factor as the PSP

The other specs are also up to par – the NGP has integrated stereo speakers, a microphone, built-in Wifi N and Bluetooth 2.1 EDR support, a GPS transceiver, a gyroscope and accelerometer and support for 3G mobile networks (yes, it can also make calls). To top it off are two cameras: one on the front for video chat and one on the back for taking pictures (the sensor size wasn’t disclosed, but it should be around 1.3 and 5.0 megapixels for each camera, respectively).

The look of the device has remained pretty much the same: if you look from a distance, the NGP is no different than a PSP-3000, with its size being 182×83.5×18.6 mm (yes, despite the bigger 5 inch screen, the overall size is pretty much the same), and the button layout remains the same (well, it is perfect for gaming, so why change it?).

The games for the device will be provided by the PlayStation Suite, which developers will need to buy in order to make compatible games, and they will be able to run both on the NGP and the PlayStation Phone (with different texture quality and resolution, as is the case for the iPad and iPhone). The NGP should be coming out this fall worldwide, but the exact release date is unknown – I hope we can get it sooner, though! The pricing is also not set yet, but I think it will be a pretty expensive device, for all the specs it has.

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