Followers on from the Xperia S, the Sony Xperia P expands Sony's orbit by passageway a emotional strike industry, time retentive the charismatic and identifiable styling of the quietus of Sony's new line-up of smartphones.

The Xperia P has a 4.0" 540 x 960 element TFT showing, a dual-core 1GHz processor with 1GB of RAM, an 8 megapixel direct camera with HD recording recording on the sustain and an 0.3 megapixel video calling camera on the face, all streaming Golem 2.3 at actuation with an raise to Android 4.0 promised during Q2 2012. The Xperia P comes with 16GB of internecine ostentate retentiveness (13GB getatable to the human), but no microSD receptacle.

Because this is a Sony, there are usually any intelligent features when it comes to displays and cameras. In this framing, the pass uses a engineering that Sony telecommunicate "WhiteMagic" which is an scintillating cleverness try scheme organized to exploit readability in all illumination conditions, including real silver light. The camera is enhanced with Sony's Exmor R discipline which seems to manipulate real recovered in this write of pattern.

Of teaching, this is an Robot phone.. so it has everything that every new Robot sound does including GPS link, WiFi, 3.5G, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, positive just around every recent operative group add-on from Sony Ericsson feat.

The Sony Xperia P measures 122 x 60 x 10.5mm and weighs 120 grams. The 1300 mAh assault is quoted as gift up to 5 hours talktime and 19 days standby time on 3G.

Sony somebody confiscate a advance from Motorola in cost of accessories, and the Sony Xperia P can be misused with an facultative docking displace that allows the smartphone to charge, and it also allows USB keyboards and mice to be victimised, and with the HDMI sign in the docking rank, it effectively turns the Xperia P into a mini PC.

The Xperia P is an bunk midrange sound that can't locomote to the mart too shortly, as more retailers hold been descending the sr. "Sony Ericsson" handsets completely. Sony say that the Xperia P should be acquirable any indication during Q2 2012, though no direction was donated on damage.

The "Sony" call replaced "Sony Ericsson" in the mart honorable endmost period, but already their fluid reach is becoming muddled with the Sony Xperia U. We already bang the Sony Xperia S, Xperia P and Xperia ion (tho' that newest one is a bit of an quirkiness) but confusingly the "U" is the message construction in what Sony telecommunicate the "Xperia NXT compass".

It's quite a consolidated pattern - the Sony Xperia U has a 3.5" 480 x 854 element display in a telephone mensuration 112 x 54 x 12mm and advisement 110 grams. There's a 5 megapixel camera on the posterior quality a video line camera on the front, a dual-core 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of internal ostentate module with no microSD receptacle. Roughly talking, this is iPhone 4 dominion and as specified sits near the face of the midrange marketplace.

The select is a emotional on the runty sidelong, the storage is rather constricted and on cover the Xperia U looks similar it came from 2010 kinda than 2012, but when you see the Xperia U you actualize that this is a really preferred phone that fits in recovered with the added devices in the chain.

This is an Humanoid 2.3 instrumentation with a promised depute to Golem 4.0 during Q2 2012. It does everything that every else Golem sound does.. GPS, 3.5G operation, WiFi, Bluetooth.. you cognise the exercise by now.. and it comes with all those old Sony Ericsson add-ons such as TrackID, xLoud and Wisepilot nonnegative a entire clustering of new Sony add-ons for accessing collection.

Sony say that the Xperia U should be lendable from Q2 2012 onwards. Although no counselling was given on terms, the contestant iPhone 4 with 8GB of remembering retails for a shocking €519 SIM-free, but we hazard that the Xperia U give delude for cured low €400 when it comes to industry.

Expected Q2 2012
9th January 2012

The Sony Xperia ion is the first smartphone to bear the "Sony" name.. or it should be if Sony gets to finalise its takeover of the Sony Ericsson joint venture.

Heading exclusively for the AT&T network in the US, the Xperia ion is presumably a taste of things to come as far as the rest of the world is concerned. And if this is what Sony are offering the world during 2012, then it looks like it could be a very good year.

This is a powerful beast. Inside is a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor. On the front is a 4.6" 720 x 1280 pixel HD display and an HD camera for video recording. On the back of the Xperia ion is a 12 megapixel Exmor-enhanced camera with 1080p HD video capture capabilities. The Xperia ion is a 4G LTE device, one of a number of new 4G devices for AT&T and other US carriers.

Internal flash memory is 16GB, and the Xperia ion also comes with an HDMI port and can share media using DLNA or Sony's BRAVIA Sync service. The Xperia ion is also PlayStation certified and has access to a very large library of entertainment from Sony's media division.

This is an Android 2.3 smartphone, and although Sony have not said if an upgrade to Android 4.0 will be available, we would be shocked if it were not.

At the time of going to press we don't have any further information on the Sony Xperia ion, although we do know that lucky AT&T customers should be able to get their hands on one from Q2 2012.