Sony officially announces the new Xperia "Xperia arc", it is also released in Japan with Android 2.3 correspondence

Sony Ericsson, a Sony Group mobile phone company, recently announced the latest model of smartphone "Xperia" series "Xperia arcWe officially announced.

It is a thin, lightweight, high-performance large screen smartphone that adopted "Android 2.3" which is the latest version of Google's mobile phone OS "Android", and has also decided to release it in Japan.

Details are as below.
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According to the press release of Sony Ericsson, the company is to release the new Xperia "Xperia arc" from the first quarter of 2011 in all over the world including Japan.

"Xperia arc" is a model equipped with a 4.2-inch full wide VGA (854 × 480) multi-touch compliant high-durability display, 1 GHz Qualcomm CPU, up to 512 MB of memory, etc. The version of Android OS preinstalled is 2.3.

Moreover, in addition to adopting "Mobile BRAVIA Engine" utilizing the know-how of LCD TV "BRAVIA" as a display, it is higher by the 8 million pixel camera for HD movie shooting adopting backside illuminated CMOS "Exmor R" that can shoot even in dark places You can enjoy quality images.

This is "Xepria arc". The main body size is 125 × 63 × 8.7 mm and the weight is 117 g. She said that it pursued thinness, lightness, strength.


As the name of "arc (arc)", it has a loosely arched design. In addition, this arc is based on ergonomics, pursuing ease of holding.


Coloring is Midnight Blue and Misty Silver


Misty Silver looks something like this. In addition, LED flash is attached to the rear camera.


It is characteristic that the proportion of 4.2 inch display occupying the main body seems to be very large.


In addition, "Xperia arc" has small HDMI terminal, microUSB terminal, DLNA compatible wireless LAN, microSD memory card slot, Bluetooth, GPS etc. which can be connected with LCD TV etc, and it supports various kinds of services of Google.


"Xperia arc" is decided to be released in Japan, but considering that "Xperia (SO - 01B)" which is currently on sale in Japan was released from NTT docomo on April 1, 2010 , Can you think that "Xperia arc" will be released around April this year? The next report is awaited.