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Sony’s new UXP NXT Android interface shown off, Xperia S shines for the spotlight (Video)

By on February 21, 2012 at 1:30pm in Mobile News

Sony’s upcoming Xperia S is getting a lot of press, and for good reason. Not only is it solidly built but it will be showcasing the newly-integrated company’s new UXP NXT Android interface to the world. Though it retains much of the colour, fluidity and potentially-frustrating “chrome” that made the previous Xperia devices a “love it or hate it” affair, Sony has taken care to eschew excess and really optimize the new interface for performance.

As we showed you with our hands-on during CES, the Xperia S is going to run Android 2.3 at launch with an upgrade to 4.0 shortly thereafter. With so many company’s failing to meet their ICS upgrade schedule, we hope that Sony makes good on its promise of “shortly” but it remains to be seen.

The new interface boasts lockscreen, telephony, gallery, camera and widget improvements, to name a few, and on the leaked videos below you can see the device in action. What do you think? Is this good enough to propel Sony to the fore of Android manufacturers?

Source: Xperia Blog
Via: Phone Arena

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Discussion

20 comments for “Sony’s new UXP NXT Android interface shown off, Xperia S shines for the spotlight (Video)”

  1. Looks really nice, I am definitely excited to see it. Lack of ICS is disappointing though.

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    Posted by Al | February 21, 2012, 1:54 pm
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  2. Wow that is a sexy looking phone. wouldnt mind getting my hands on that beast. comon telus…..

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    Posted by Olhado | February 21, 2012, 1:58 pm
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  3. Even stock UI on my xperia play is impressive, compared to my Samsung galaxy, transition very fluid no shutter or lag, the xperia s looks good,

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    Posted by kxj | February 21, 2012, 2:08 pm
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  4. Sexy, but 2.3? Seriously?

    I used to defend Android fragmentation, but it seems to be getting worse as opposed to better.

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    Posted by JB | February 21, 2012, 2:10 pm
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  5. BEAUTIFUL!

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    Posted by dionysaki s | February 21, 2012, 2:18 pm
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  6. Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.

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    Posted by T1MB1T | February 21, 2012, 2:56 pm
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  7. keep dreaming buddy, Wind will forever have low end androids and blackberries.

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    Posted by Adrtong | February 21, 2012, 3:19 pm
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    • Argument invalid:
      Galaxy S II X,
      Galaxy Nexus,
      Nexus S, (was high end, still a decent mid-range)
      Galaxy S, (was high end at release)
      + Every phone and tablet T-Mobile ever releases…
      + You can use any wifi-only tablet anywhere on their network with their Pocket WIND-Speed wifi hub.. connects to WIND, and extends the mobile network to any wifi-capable device. $100 + $35/mo for unlimited data.

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      Posted by Woah! | February 21, 2012, 3:36 pm

  8. Damn, if the camera is anything like the Xperia Arc’s (plus 4 megapixels more!) then this phone is gonna be a beast. I just hope battery life is good…

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    Posted by Corks | February 21, 2012, 3:38 pm
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  9. wow that promo video was real good!

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    Posted by jay | February 21, 2012, 5:37 pm
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  10. i want them to push this ui instead of timescape in the Ice cream sandwich update for the rest of the xperia line

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    Posted by Mischa | February 21, 2012, 5:44 pm
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  11. its not 8 cores.
    not >2GHz
    not >4GB of ram
    no quadrant scores
    i pass.

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    Posted by jon_d0e | February 21, 2012, 5:51 pm
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    • Are you kidding me? No phone in the world even being in prototype have 8cores, 4GB ram.. You must be really dumb or blind…

      Anyways this phone will sell out on the first day it gets released. I for sure will buy it from the Sony Store if Rogers does not offer it.

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      Posted by Dimitri.k | February 21, 2012, 6:23 pm

  12. Rogers will get it no doubt, Wind is dreaming it has good phones. They have the cast offs and no one is interested in AWS. Now now not ever. Limited range, terrible signal penetration and even worse support. Look at winds page, full of complaints. Customer service issues, they let the lunatics run the forum like T1MB1T and alike.

    This phone will do well, so whats the megga hurts you keep talking about T1MB1T? Sounds really special!

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    Posted by Big Red Machine | February 21, 2012, 6:45 pm
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  13. This phone brings back the excitement I had when the first Xperia came out. Hope it lives up to its hype :)

    Also, why is WIND always trolling? I love their service but if this is their attitude towards phones they can’t have, maybe I should switch to a more positive company. No need to hate.

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    Posted by GDSharm | February 21, 2012, 6:57 pm
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  14. Sorry, but I’m gonna pass on this one. Still resent Sony for the fiasco that was their support for the Xpersia x10. NOT a single update was released anywhere near their promised release date. The dev community embarassed them into providing firmware updates while the phone was still being sold by proving that the things they claimed were false. Maybe now with Ericsson out of the picture, maybe things will change, but until they build a better track record, I’ll pass.

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    Posted by AmyR | February 21, 2012, 7:13 pm
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    • & yet the Sony xperia Arc & play get the updates at the right time. IF you actually look around you will see that. yes the x10 had a few bumps like this but after the x10 they released the Sony Arc & Play..

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      Posted by Dimitri.k | February 21, 2012, 7:42 pm

  15. I think Sony is putting their up next for the next os update because they said that they where going to put the stock gallery and the new Sony Ericson gallery. And the the video showed the new gallery

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    Posted by Masha | February 21, 2012, 9:58 pm
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  16. Hmm. I like the look of that transparent bar just like everyone else but maybe they should have left it out. The reason I say that is because the space beneath the antenna/clear bar is just unneeded space that could have been used to make the phone almost as compact as a 3.5 inch phone yet still sport a 4.3 inch screen. Plus that would allow them to put the USB charging slot on the bottom of the phone where it belongs.

    That would have been the perfect phone. Let’s hope Samsung does a similar profile for the S3 and doesn’t make it too big like the Galaxy Nexus.

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    Posted by Tomatoes | February 21, 2012, 11:52 pm
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    • The clear bar is more than just ‘eye candy’ it actually holds a the antennae mesh, which is so fine it’s barely noticeable. I don’t know if the very bottom section holds any components, but would suspect this to be true. Because there is fine wiring running through this transparent bar, then any electronics in the lower portion can still be connected to the upper section.

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      Posted by Andy | February 22, 2012, 6:11 am

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