Sony Xperia S Review, Specs, Price, cell phone mobile, Sony Xperia S was just announced at CES alongside another Sony handset with a 4.3-inch 720p display and some pretty impressive specs – a gap-free laminated Reality Display, the Xperia S features 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 12 megapixel Exmor R camera R camera sensor, NFC support, and PlayStation certification. According to Sony, it’ll come with Android 2.3 and not Ice Cream Sandwich, at least not until second quarter of the year. And theXperia S comes in black and white and will launch at the end of the first quarter in ‘select markets’.
Design
At first glance the Xperia S doesn’t appear to be taking many chances in terms of design. It’s a shiny black rectangle. But there’s one quirk that pushed up our eyebrows — a transparent stripe along the bottom, illuminated by the three touch-sensitive buttons that sit just above it.
Features
The new Sony handset will not arrive with Android Ice Cream Sandwich on board, but Sony says there’ll be an upgrade in the near future. Instead early adopters will be greeted with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. As with other phones in the Xperia range, like the Sony Xperia Arc, the UI is very Android centric. There’s no skin like on HTC and Samsung Android phones and Sony Ericsson has long ditched the Timescape UI, which was a good idea in theory but didn’t really work in practice.
Sony Ericsson cameras have always been an area of the phone’s that we can be positive about and the Sony Xperia S is no different, bringing a 12-megapixel offering which also offers some neat shot-to-shot technology which almost eliminates the shutter-lag between taking pictures. In terms of video, the device will shoot 1080p, a la the iPhone 4S. There’s also an Exmor sensor on-board. Very fancy.
There’s also a boon for gamers as the device is PlayStation certified, meaning you’ll be able to access the library of old PlayStation titles just like Xperia Play owners. It’ll also focus its attentions on the Sony Entertainment Network with apps like Music Unlimited and Movies Unlimited. It’ll also be able to throw content to your TV set in the same way AirPlay does on iOS devices.
Screen
Continuing the trend of whopping Android screens, the Xperia S has a 4.3-inch, 1280×720 resolution screen that brings the Sony Bravia Mobile engine into play. Screen detail is fantastic, colours are engaging and well represented, but the display is by no means as encapsulating as the Samsung Galaxy S2′s Super AMOLED offering or the Apple iPhone 4S’s Retina Display.
Performance
With a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260 processor and the now-standard 1GB of RAM on-board the device is rather nippy and during our brief test performed really well. Whizzing around the Android operating system was a breeze, while video rendered very quickly and web-pages loaded at a better-than-expected-for-a-showroom-floor speed. More testing is needed in this area to give a definitive verdict.
Sony Xperia S Price :
Sony is expected to be released Xperia S in the first quarter of 2012. Its retail price will be around $ 650.00 U.S. dollars
Sony Xperia S Specs :
* 2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
* 3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 2100 – LT26i HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 – LT26a
* Dimensions: 128 x 64 x 10.6 mm
* Weight: 144 grams
* candybar style design
* Touch controls
* LED-backlit touchscreen capacitive 4.3-inch LCD (~ 342 ppi pixel density)
* Multitouch
* scratch-resistant glass
* Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine
* Timescape UI
* Vibration and MP3 ringtones
* Speakerphone
* headphone jack of 3.5 mm
* 16/32 GB internal storage
* RAM 1 GB
* GPRS up to 86 kbps
* EDGE to 237 kbps
* HSDPA at 14.4 Mbps
* HSUPA to 5.8 Mbps
* Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Wi-Fi Direct , DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
* Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, EDR
* NFC
* microUSB 2.0, HS, USB On-the-go
* 12 megapixel camera with autofocus, geo-tagging and LED flash
* 1080 @ 30fps Video, Autofocus continuous video light and video stabilizer
* Secondary camera 1.3 megapixel 720p @ 30fps
* Operating System Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
* Qualcomm MSM8260 processor Dual core 1.5 GHz Snapdragon
* Accelerometer sensor
* Gyroscope
* Proximity sensor
* Digital compass
* Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging, Push Email
* Browser HTML5, Adobe Flash
* Stereo FM radio with RDS
* GPS with A-GPS and GLONASS
* Java MIDP emulator
* silver and black
* MicroSIM card support
* TV launcher
* SNS Integration
* HDMI port
* Audio Player: MP3/eAAC + / WMA / WAV
* Video Player: MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV
* TrackID music recognition
* Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk
* Document viewer
* Voice recorder
* Calendar, Alarm, Calculator
* Predictive text input
* Standard battery Li-Ion 1750 mAh of
