Sony announces first Xperia phone without Ericsson to

Sony has its first Android phone in the Xperia line was announced after the full owner of the joint-venture Sony Ericsson. The Xperia ion runs on a 1.5 GHz dualcoreprocessor and has a 4,6″screen.

The screen has a diagonal of 4.6″ and a resolution of 1280×720 pixels, as announced by Sony at consumer electronics show CES. The manufacturer was not known what type of the 1.5 GHz dualcoreprocessor. Further pictures can be shot with a 12-megapixel camera that also record video in 1080p resolution at can take. For video calls is a 1.3-megapixel camera at the front built. Storage of files on the built-in memory of 16GB. Furthermore, there is support for nfc, and in addition to gps, the Xperia ion also with Glonass satellites handle.

In the second quarter, the Xperia ion in the United States provider AT&T, where the device can work with the lte network of the telco. It is unknown when Sony announced the device in Europe. It is likely that a European version not have lte will offer.

The Xperia ion comes with support for Playstation games. Thus, users have access to games for the Sony console that is made suitable for mobile use. The manufacturer has also made possible to share files or media: this can be done via dlna, hdmi, or Bravia Sync, the latter only with Sony tvs work. The software of the Xperia ion is based on Android 2.3. It is likely that there is an update for Android 4.0.

Recently it became known that Sony is the part of Ericsson in the joint venture Sony Ericsson took over. This was already expected that Sony with their own devices under the Xperia name would come up.