The Sony Xperia U is the baby of the newly-announced family from Sony but takes a lot of design cues from the more-expensive Xperia S. In essence the 3.5-inch device is a successor to the Xperia ray, which was released last year to great acclaim. Sony is one of the few companies that continues to build Android devices under 4-inches, and the Xperia U is a great example of a device that hits all the right notes without breaking the bank.

Is this the right entry-level phone for you? Let’s dive right in.

Specs:

- Android 2.3.7 with custom Sony overlay
- 3.5-inch 480×854 pixel LCD display
- 1Ghz dual-core NovaThor SoC with Mali-4ooMP GPU
- 512MB RAM / 4GB internal storage / 1.9GB app storage
- 5MP camera w/ flash, VGA front-facing camera
- 720p video capture
- WiFi (b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1, A-GPS
- HSDPA 14.4Mbps / HSUPA 5.76Mbps
- 3G: 850/1900/2100Mhz, 2G:  850/900/1800/1900Mhz
- 112 x 54 x 12 mm
- 110g

Design & Display

There is no use avoiding it: the Xperia U isn’t likely to win any awards for thinness. In fact, at 12mm it is considered rather rotund by today’s standards. But, like the Xperia S, the frame manages to feel considerably smaller, owed to the intelligent design with a rounded back and sharp edges. That the phone is only 112mm tall and 54mm wide is a bonus, too, since despite its thickness it never feels oversized.

The Xperia U moves the power button to the top right side of the phone, with the volume rocker and camera shutter button spaced evenly below it. The buttons are small but maintain good travel, and are a pleasure to use. The matte black finish of the phone, from both the side and the back, is incredibly comfortable to hold and while the material attracts oil, smudging quickly, I found it easy to clean.

Like the Xperia S, the front of the U is defined by its light grid below the screen that doubles as an antenna mesh. The three capacitive touch buttons are above the light strip but appear far more responsive than its larger, more powerful kin. And this time Sony brought a neat parlour trick: the mesh grid glows different colours depending on the software colour scheme in use. This in addition to replaceable bottom portions (a pink one is included in the case) and you’ve got  a veritable modular phone.

The WXVGA screen is bright and colourful, but blacks are sadly grey and drab. Due to the small size, the 854×480 resolution results in a high 280ppi pixel density, so text looks sharp as a tack. Viewing angles are fantastic for a LCD display. Touch responsiveness was also very good on Android 2.3.7, arguably better than the Xperia S, which was a nice surprise. All told, you’re getting quite a nice little device for your $300. My only issue with the display was the lack of any oleophobic coating on the glass: it gets quickly smothered by fingerprints and requires regular wipedowns.

Performance

The ST-Ericsson NovaThor chipset is an interesting creature: its CPU is a pretty standard dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 built at 45nm, but its GPU is the Mali-400MP, the same one as the Galaxy S II. The clock speed is slightly slower — we’re looking at 1Ghz for the CPU and around 200Mhz for the GPU — but the reality is that we’re finally looking at a dual-core solution for $300.

Despite running Gingerbread, the phone flies through various home screens, apps and games. It scored a decent 66MFLOPS on Linpack multithreaded, in line with other dual-core solutions like Tegra 2, and an impressive 2248 on the updated (and more reliable) Quadrant Benchmark. In other words, this phone will play all the latest games with aplomb.

The only area of disappointment was the relatively anemic amount of RAM and internal storage — 512MB and 4GB respectively — severely limiting not only the number of background tasks the phone can handle but the media it can handle in the first place. Considering the Xperia U has no expandable memory slot, we were at least grateful that the 4GB was dedicated entirely to internal storage — there is an extra 1.8GB for apps.

As I said in the Xperia S review, Sony has optimized the heck out of Gingerbread and it shows here. Transitions are smooth; scrolling is butter; and, most importantly, even with 512MB RAM, apps never really seem to stutter or misbehave.

Software

The Xperia U runs a build of Gingerbread, Android 2.3.7, which has been heavily modified from its original incarnation. Most of these changes are for the better — you have the ability to drag-and-drop icons to create folders, for example — but it’s still a 19-month-old operating system, and the disadvantages to Ice Cream Sandwich are becoming more apparent every day. I say this time and time again: it is not OK to release phones with Gingerbread anymore, especially since the Xperia ray, this handset’s spiritual predecessor, just got upgraded.

Nevertheless, what you get on the Xperia U is a joy to use; the launcher snaps to attention, gliding around smoothly underneath your fingers. The customizable four-icon dock bar supports embedded folders, and the app drawer itself is fairly customizable. We missed the upgraded Google apps from Ice Cream Sandwich, Gmail especially, but Sony put its own magic touch on the Messaging and Music apps, while keeping others like the Gallery are kept stock Gingerbread.

The music app is particularly noteworthy because it integrates with Sony’s Music Unlimited service, which recently launched in Canada to compete with Slacker and Rdio — all Xperia U customers will receive a month of free service.

Like other recent Sony smartphones there are plenty of “value-added” apps on board, some of which could be construed as bloatware in the right circumstances. A full version of PopCap Games’ Plants vs Zombies is included, along with Sony mainstays TrackID, 3D Camera, and Timescape, which has been thankfully relegated to an independent app and widget combination.

Like a Rogers phone, the Fido-branded Xperia U is bundled with the company’s MyAccount, Shop, Ringtones and Ringbacks shortcuts which cannot be uninstalled or disabled. That being said, only four apps is a mercifully small number in this day and age.

Sony’s done a great job with the Xperia U keyboard — on such a narrow phone it’s typically hard to type in portrait mode but the autocorrect is functional enough to alleviate most concerns. I found it more comfortable to type in landscape mode, though, for which the 3.5-inch screen is well suited.

Camera

Like most Sony phones, the 5MP sensor produces good shots, but don’t come into the Xperia U expecting it to compare to the 12MP beast in the Xperia S. Rather, experience is just as good — you can wake up the phone by holding down the camera shutter button, which starts the Quick Shot mode — and the shutter is extremely quick.

Results were a mixed bag. Daylight photos had plenty of detail and some nice colour saturation, but dynamic range was pretty poor; the phone struggled to meter the right exposure. Macro was also quite disappointing: what looked like a clear photo on the small screen ended up being a homogenized blur. There was also a fair amount of softness around subjects, like the lens had trouble focusing on one object.

Sony’s camera software has proven to be some of the best on the market, though, and the interface provides one-touch access to most essential controls. Like the Xperia S you can take sweeping panoramas in both 2D and 3D (though you’ll need a 3D-capable monitor to view them) and the results were usually quite good.

The phone is capable of 720p video and, like the 5MP photos results varied depending on the lighting situation. On the plus side, video was smooth and sharp, and sound capture was surprisingly free of artifacts. Compared to the HTC One V, which retailers for roughly the same price, the Xperia U provides a compelling competitor — the burst mode on the One V is interesting, but Sony’s dedicated shutter button can’t be beaten.

Network Speeds, Call Quality & Media Consumption

The Xperia U is capped at 14.4Mbps in the downlink and 5.76Mbps in the uplink — a network speed demon this is not. But when benchmarking with Ookla’s Speedtest app, I was able to peak above 5Mbps down pretty consistently, which is a heck of a lot faster than I averaged with the Xperia S on the Rogers network. Perhaps the baseband inside the NovaThor chip is better tuned to Fido/Rogers than the Snapdragon S3, but whatever the reason I won’t complain.

As a phone, the Xperia U excels because it is compact and comfortable to hold for long periods of time. I enjoyed the time I spent talking on it, too: calls were loud, clear and distortion-free. The rear speaker, like most phone speakers, was anemic but passable.

Sound quality was also good from the headphone jack, and watching movies with the Bravia Engine turned on was a treat: the high pixel density and enveloping xLoud sound engine makes for an excellent audio-visual combination. While most media consumption is better suited for a larger device, I enjoyed watching an episode or two from Netflix.

Battery Life

The 1320mAh battery in the Xperia U is rated for around 6.5 hours of talk time, and we were able to eek a full day out of it on a regular basis. Like the Xperia S, the battery disappointed us to some degree since Gingerbread has been around for a long time and should be heavily optimized. The dual-core CPU is the likely culprit of the battery drain, but on average we hit around 12 hours of consistent usage from the Xperia U, not a bad number from a cell that size.

For most users, a day or light- to moderate use will be more than achievable.

Conclusions

The Xperia U is one of the best-performing low-cost Android smartphones around. Its dual-core CPU and quality GPU blows the single-core MSM8255 in the One V out of the water. Its sharp screen, decent network speeds and good camera quality complement one another.

While I hope that Ice Cream Sandwich will grace the Xperia U sooner than later, to the average consumer who is purchasing the device for $0 on a 3-year term or $300 outright, many of those great Android 4.0 features are already present.

Sony’s done a great job bringing a nop-notch product to the entry-level market, which makes things just a little more tricky when deciding which phone to buy. That, however, is never a bad thing for consumers.

This is why, according to Queru, Sony was able to distribute Ice Cream Sandwich to its aging Sony Tablet S less than five months after the code was released: they already had a head start with all their contributions. Sure, other manufacturers like Asus and Acer have already updated their slates to ICS, but Sony’s contributions allowed them to do more with their existing hardware.

The realization is also reassuring to Sony Ericsson phone owners who are eagerly awaiting an update from Sony to Ice Cream Sandwich. They have released beta software for the arc and arc S, the Play, the ray and others, to ensure the highest level of performance and app compatibility. One of our major concerns with the excellent Xperia S was that it shipped with Gingerbread.

But Queru also underscores how damaging carrier intervention in the whole process can be; while the WiFi version of Google’s “developer tablet” Motorola Xoom was updated to Ice Cream Sandwich around the same time as the initial (failed) Nexus S rollout, the 3G-based version is still sitting in limbo waiting for carrier approval.

Says Queru: “The part that blows my mind is that some variants of the Google-engineered flagship devices still haven’t received Ice Cream Sandwich (or are stuck with older versions of Ice Cream Sandwich) because of delays introduced by operator approvals. I’m very glad that Google is back in the business of selling phones directly without any middlemen to interfere, and I’ll be even happier when I see that program expanded to more countries.”

Amen to that.

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Via: Computer World

As for specific results, Sony Ericsson shipped 9 million handsets in the quarter, a 20% decrease compared to Q4 2010. However, a couple years back they decided to make Android their primary OS and stated Q4 handset shipments were 9 million. A staggering 80% of these were Xperia Android smartphones (7.2 million) – thus bringing the total shipments of Xperia smartphones to 28 million to date .

In the press release it was stated that “Sony Ericsson estimates that its share of the global Android-based smartphone market was 10% in volume and 7% in value during the quarter and 10% in volume and 10% in value for the full year… Sony Ericsson estimates that the global smartphone market for the full year 2011 increased by 60% in volume to 463 million units. Sony Ericsson estimates strong growth in the smartphone market in 2012.”

From what we’ve seen so far, confirmed or leaked devices, such as the Xperia S or Xperia Ion, 2012 is certainly shaping up to have a solid start.

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Via: PocketNow

The term ‘mini’ is almost always a pejorative. It’s a synonym for small, weak, underpowered. So it’s probably a good thing that Sony Ericsson decided not to call the Xperia ray the Xperia arc mini, even though, for all intents and purposes, that’s what it is.

In reality, the Xperia ray is an extremely capable phone in a tiny package, and a coup for TELUS. It appeals to anyone who longs for the days of the tiny Nokia clamshell but wants the power of a high-end smartphone. It’s not going to change the phone industry, but it underscores Sony Ericsson’s progression into a forward-thinking Android manufacturer who knows its multiple demographics. Read on to see how much we liked it.

Specs:

- 3.3″ 854×480 pixel LCD display with Sony’s Bravia Engine
- 1Ghz Snapdragon MSM8255 SoC with Adreno 205 GPU
- 512MB RAM / 320MB internal storage /8GB included microSD card (32GB max)
- 8.1MP camera with Sony’s Exmor R sensor / 720p video capture @ 30fps / Video light
- WiFi (b/g/n), A-GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP support
- 111.0 x 53.0 x 9.4 mm / 100g
- HSDPA 7.2Mbps / HSUPA 5.76Mbps
- 850/1900/2100 UMTS

The Phone and initial thoughts

With a 3.3″ screen and a 9.4mm thickness, the ray turns heads. It resembles in many ways the Xperia arc released earlier this year except it lacks the distinctly curved back, opting instead for a straight and simple cover. Adorning the device is a matte, graphite-coloured polycarbonate, very sturdy and easy to hold.

There is a moulded 3.5mm headphone jack on top, slightly raised, to accommodate the most stubborn of headsets, a microUSB port on the left side and a simple volume rocker on the top right side. The ‘up’ arrow protrudes slightly from the volume rocker, while the ‘down’ is recessed, ensuring accurate pocket access. It’s these small details that delight.

The front is comprised of a sharp and bright FWVGA screen with a true 16:9 ratio. Sony has embedded its Bravia Engine technology into the ray, as it did with the arc, and it’s remarkable to witness on such a small screen. With the same resolution as the arc’s 4.2″ screen shrunk down to 3.3″, the ray has a healthy pixel density of 297ppi. While we wouldn’t necessarily recommend watching a full movie on such a diminutive screen, it’s worth loading up a couple HD movies on it just to get a sense of its capabilities. Colours are lush and vividly drawn, with staggering amounts of detail. Similarly good are brightness levels, though for some frustrating reason Sony Ericsson has neglected to include an auto-brightness setting, an essential battery-saving feature.

Forgoing the traditional four capacitive Android buttons, the ray includes an oval-shaped physical home button and omits the dedicated search button, keeping the front clean and stylish. The oval symmetry continues on top with the headset grill and a power button directly above it on the bezel. The home button has a lovely multi-coloured LED that slowly pulses green or orange depending on the notification.

The ray comes with a VGA front-facing camera and a rear 8MP shooter that uses Sony’s exellent Exmor R sensor. Unfortunately its usefulness is stymied with the inclusion not of a flash but, like the Xperia X10 before it, a video light. This means the LED is either on or off, even for still shots, somewhat negating its usefulness. You can still touch the screen to focus and take a photo, but white balance is not readjusted on the fly as with most flash-based shooters. Still shot results are excellent, though: the camera takes great macro shots and even better landscapes.

The camera UI is usable, if a bit aggravating at times. There is no dedicated shutter button: shots are taken by tapping on the screen. Controls are on the left side (scene select, resolution, flash, etc.) with a thumbnail row of the five last photos on the right. As with Windows Phone 7, you can swipe from the right side of the screen to reveal a makeshift gallery and, when finished, go right back to taking photos. This is a fantastic inclusion and something we used often.

The ray’s design is a treat to see first hand. It’s light, thin and small, and as such easy to hold through long phone calls or slip into a pocket or purse. At 100g, it’s one of the lightest phones we’ve used, but due to its high quality chassis, doesn’t feel cheap. More companies should be using the materials SE are using with their latest crop of devices.

The Software and performance

The Xperia ray has Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread loaded onto the device. While not the latest version of 2.3, it’s modern enough to be considered up-to-date, considering many Canadian Android devices don’t yet have Gingerbread at all. Though much pared-down since the X10 halcyon days, Sony Ericsson’s distinctive neon blue colour scheme pervades, and there are numerous familiar widgets pre-installed across the five home screens. As you can see in the above screenshots, there are a bunch of different “themes” included with the ray that alter the system colours.

The 1Ghz processor keeps things humming along — we’ve always found SE’s Gingerbread builds to be relatively smooth — but we found browsing to be a stuttering endeavour. The browser does a decent job fitting desktop pages on the tiny screen, but for the most part we tried to find mobile equivalents; the screen is just too small to read all the way zoomed out. Granted, due to the high pixel density the text is clear and actually readable.

The Sunspider Javascript benchmark completed in a fantastic 3267.4ms, while the Vellamo, Smartbench 2011 and CF-Bench scores were 851, 1436 Productivity / 1805 Games, and 3025 respectively. Results were in line with typical 1Ghz single-core processors, if a bit higher in fact, but there is practically nothing that the ray cannot do — it will run pretty much all the games in the Marketplace but for those specifically designed for Tegra 2 — and that should help keep the naysayers from reducing the device to a single core/dual core debate. The Sunspider benchmark was in fact 30% faster than the brand new HTC Raider, which has a 1.2Ghz dual-core processor.

The UI is extremely usable, and portions of it we prefer to the stock Gingerbread experience. In the stock launcher, you can pinch on any of the homescreens to show a preview of the available widgets. We actually found this a more useful behaviour to that of LauncherPro or HTC’s Sense, which merely show zoomed-out previews of the entire homescreens.

Sony Ericsson includes a bunch of first-party applications meant to flesh out the stock Android experience. Most notable is the Video Unlimited app that is becoming standard on all SE hardware, including tablets. This includes movies for purchase or rental, and is a direct competitor with HTC’s new Watch software, along with Apple’s iTunes. Selection is excellent (for a relatively new service) and prices are within expectations: $19.99 for new release purchases, $3.99-$4.99 for 48-hour rentals.

Also includes is the Shazam-emulating TrackID, meant to sniff out song titles based on snippets from the radio or television commercials. We found that it worked about as well as its competition, but since those services are now free for unlimited tags, found it to be a rather superfluous addition.

More useful is the native DLNA player, which pushes content from the device to a compatible television or computer. The ray also comes with a basic version of OfficeSuite, which can read and create Word-compatible documents. As per TELUS’ recent partnerships with Skype and Rdio, the apps are pre-installed on the device and credit can be taken directly from your monthly bill. For users trying to cut down on the number of debit sources, the convenience of seeing credit taken alongside your regular monthly charges is certainly a convenience, but we wonder how useful this is to the average credit card owner. Xperia ray users do get one month of free Rdio service, and a 20c Skype credit, so there is certainly some benefit to be gotten from the inclusion.

Curiously the ray comes with something called 3D camera. Since the device only has one backside sensor, we wondered what the heck the app did. Turns out Sony Ericsson’s interpretation of three dimensions is merely a synonym for panorama. With the software, the ray can take (quite excellent, we might add) sweeping shots of your surroundings. Instead of linearly stitching three or four static images, the ray films several frames of video across a straight  X axis (and is overly sensitive in trying to do so, resulting in a lot of frustrating failed attempts) from left to right. Whether in 4:3 or 16:9 ratios, the results are on par with other solutions offered by HTC and Samsung, but we found Sony Ericsson’s user interface less intuitive and consistent than its competitors’.

Sony Ericsson also incorporates a feature called Facebook Inside Xperia, added recently to the Android 2.3.4 update for the Xperia Play and arc. It uses open APIs from the official Facebook app to provide seamless integration into its own Timescape and Mediascape widgets, pulling status updates and photos right onto the home screen. Disabled by default, the service also ties in with the Contacts app, showing you that person’s latest Facebook status updates (along with Twitter updates if you use the official app) along with photos and Facebook “Likes”. The integration is subtle but useful, though most of the information can be obtained with equal speed from the official Facebook app.

A bona fide useful inclusion, however, is the ability to natively take a screenshot of your current screen by holding down the power button until the context menu pops up. While this has been included in the stock version of Ice Cream Sandwich, it’s a nice feature to have on a Gingerbread device.

Battery Life

The Xperia ray comes with a relatively large 1500mAh battery for the device’s size, and we got excellent, multi-day battery life as a result. Indeed, if you’re a heavy Android user you’ll be happy to know that Sony Ericsson, without any Motorola-like power-saving features, has managed to do what most other OEMs cannot: keep an Android device alive for longer than the iPhone 4.

We had no issues using the Xperia ray for over 24 hours of moderate usage, often reaching 36 hours before the battery hit red. While usage patterns may vary from person to person, we’re confident the ray is a good choice for someone looking to solve Android’s traditional battery fickleness.

The high efficiency is owed to a couple things: first, the Snapdragon MSM8255 processor is relatively low-power, especially at 1Ghz. Add the fact that the ray has one of the smallest screens on a mid-range Android device running Gingerbread, and you have a potent power-sipping solution.

Phone Calls and Other Stuff

The Xperia ray sounds great over TELUS’ network, via both the earpiece and the speaker. Network speeds disappointed, however, as the device only supports up to 7.2Mbps in the downstream; we did not exceed 3Mbps in our Speedtest.net tests in either direction.

Though there are no special business-related features, the ray has a great suite of replacement apps, and we really enjoyed using the Mail, Calendar and Contacts apps, all of which are endowed with tiny flourishes to consolidate the Sony Ericsson Android makeover.

Unfortunately the keyboard, which is admittedly much improved over the X10, is a bit cramped when used in portrait mode. SE thought it a good idea to include a “hide keyboard” button on the bottom left, taking up much needed-room for the “numbers/symbols” key. As a result we kept accidentally hiding the keyboard when we wanted to enter our passwords or a phone number. We find the issue disappeared when changing to landscape mode, and SE includes a keypad-style portrait keyboard for those who long for the good ol’ punch-type days.

Conclusions

The Xperia ray is going to turn heads not because it’s the most powerful, the thinnest or the most modern-looking. Instead, it will attract smartphone users who want compact, fast and stable. It’s a mature Android solution with few sacrifices for its size.

It has one of the highest-density LCD displays currently on the market at 297ppi, and Sony’s Bravia Engine actually makes a difference when viewing movies and photos. Because it uses the same resolution as its 4.2” Xperia arc cousin, text is sharp and pictures pop, and all apps in the market are resolution-compatible. You can’t say that for the majority of devices with a 3.3” screen size.

While we don’t yet know the price that the Xperia ray will be, but we can’t imagine it will break the bank. In any case, the investment should be a positive one, as we enjoyed the heck of out this small device.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia ray will be available on TELUS for $49.99 on a 3-year term, and $379.99 outright. Check out the landing page for more information.

Rating: 8/10

Pros:

-       Gorgeous, vibrant screen with high pixel density
-       Sony Ericsson’s Android modifications are subtle and useful
-       Good performance for a last-generation processor
-       Camera takes great shots and excellent 720p video
-       Size is a huge plus for those looking for a smaller Android device that doesn’t suck
-       Design is austere and modern
-       Excellent battery life

Cons:

-       Camera UI is a bit clunky
-       Small size may be a turnoff for some
-       Last year’s hardware in a modern device
-       Included apps are not uninstallable
-       Portrait keyboard is too small, key placements questionable
-       No camera flash or automatic screen brightness settings
-       Low amount of application storage (only 320MB)

This is an Android-based Bluetooth remote control that you can use as a wrist watch or clip it anywhere you feel the need too. LiveView is compatible with any Android that runs OS 2.0 or higher and gives you the ability to play music from your device, shows incoming calls/texts, read Twitter/Facebook updates and RSS feeds, view messages, get calendar reminders and displays the time and date. Specs have it coming with a 1.3-inch OLED touchscreen display (resolution of 128×128), weighs only 15 grams and because it operated via Bluetooth is has an operating range of 10 meters.

It currently says this is “Out of stock” but most likely it’ll become available when the Xperia arc and Play launch on the 28th.

Source: Sony Ericsson eShop
Via: Sony Ericsson

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Via: Phandroid

In addition to these upcoming releases, Sony Ericsson announced the Xperia Arc at CES this year. you can check out our hands-on of this device here as it’ll be hitting Canadian soil soon.

Source: Android Community

The Arc is beautiful and certainly a step up from previous Sony Ericsson Android devices. The name of the device is called the “Arc” because it fits the natural “human curvature” of the hand. This will come loaded with OS 2.3 Gingerbread and also pack a powerful 1GHz Snapdragon processor. Their previous flagship device, the Xperia X10 looks much chunky when sitting next to the stylish and elegant new Arc. I mean at its thinnest point the Arc measures in at just 8.7mm. As for the weight: only 117 grams. So far it’s more powerful, thinner, lighter and runs the latest Android OS. All good. How about the screen? Well, this too is bigger at 4.2-inch multi-touch display (resolution of 854×480) with Mobile BRAVIA (they are calling this “Reality Display” as it has been optimized for multimedia viewing). Other specs of the Arc have it coming with a 8.1 megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording, auto-focus LED flash, HDMI out and can hold up to 32GB with a microSD card (I think this will ship with a 8GB card).

Check out the video after the break and we’ll have more info soon

As for specs, the Xperia X7 will come with a massive 4.3-inch WVGA touchscreen display (resolution of 480×800), a Qualcomm MSM8260 1.2GHz processor, 8 megapixel camera that can take 720p HD videos and apparently an HDMI output with Dolby Digital Plus surround. Dang those specs are good.

As for the Xperia X7 “mini”, this slide shows that it’ll have a 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen display with a resolution of 480×800, 1GHz Qualcomm QSD8250 processor and a stellar 10.1 megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording. The mini is not so “mini” and sounds like a device that I’d want now.

The images are not the most convincing so hopefully the slides are true. If so, Sony Ericsson will be having a great year next in 2011.

Source: PocketNow
Via: IntoMobile

Bert Nordberg, President & CEO of Sony Ericsson said that “our third consecutive quarter of profitable results illustrates that Sony Ericsson’s overall performance is stabilising. Our strategy to focus on the smartphone segment is succeeding and smartphones now comprise more than 50% of our total sales… it is our ambition to become the global number one handset provider on the Android platform.”

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