Sony has paid Ericsson off with a nice little divorce settlement and is now single and ready to rock - and the result is the 12MP-camera, HD screen-toting Sony Xperia S.
Obviously, it's a line carried over from the Sony Ericsson era which saw the maker release an Xperia handset on what felt like a weekly basis. But we get the feeling that this is something a little more special.
Specs wise, it's pretty high end so should give us a great experience if we're judging it on paper. A fantastic 4.3" screen with Sony's Bravia HD technology, 12MP Exmor R camera, DLNA, Android Gingerbread 2.3 and so forth.
And it looks pretty hot too. A slab made out of glossy piano black glass with a transparent strip across the front that also acts as an antenna, this could quite easily be a swish remote for some posh Sony toy rather than a phone.
- Android Gingerbread (Upgradeable to ICS)
- 4.3-inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720
- 1.5GHz dual-core processor with a MSM8260 chipset, 1GB RAM
- 12 megapixel camera with Sony Exmor R sensor and 1080p video recording capabilities
- 1.3 megapixel front camera with 720p@30 fps
- 32GB internal memory
- HDMI port
- Weighs 144g
With a price tag of Rs.32,000, the Sony Xperia S directly competes with a few existing handsets. The first one being the mammoth Samsung Galaxy Note that has a full 1-inch more in the display size at 5.3 inches. The next is the Sensation XE, which comes with a similar 1.5 GHz dual core processor, but sports an 8 megapixel camera that we weren’t particularly impressed with. There’s also the oh-so-popular and ever reliable Samsung Galaxy S II that is currently selling for close to Rs.31,000. The other phones in the similar price bracket include the HTC EVO 3D and theMotorola RAZR XT910 – the one with the Kevlar vest. What the Xperia S clearly wins over the competition in, is the megapixel count in its camera, but as we all know megapixels don’t really tell the whole story. Besides that at 32k, we do think it’s slightly expensive, and we would have loved this device over all the other ones, if it were priced close to 27k-28k. However, the official pricing and availability hasn’t been disclosed as of now, so we could see a few fluctuations in the price of the Xperia S in the coming weeks. Till then, at 32K would you buy this piece of art?