There are photos online appeared of the Sony Xperia U, a smartphone that is the successor of the Xperia Ray. The photos show a device with a 3.5″screen. Presumably announces the manufacturer of the device coming Sunday.
The photos are published on a Chineestalig forum and show the Xperia U next to the previous month, announced Xperia S. The Xperia U has a 3.5″screen with a resolution of 854×480 pixels, which the screen with a ppi of 279. The Sony Ericsson smartphone with the highest ppi up until now the Xperia S, which is 340 pixels-per-inch counts. The manufacturer was called until this week Sony Ericsson, the name on the photos is still at the prototype to see. Sony Ericsson bought out and calls the mobieltjesmaker now Sony Mobile.
The Xperia U has an ips-lcd by Sony, presumably, will be referred to with WhiteMagic. The screen has next to the usual red, green and blue subpixels of a white subpixel to the brightness to screws up to 1000 nits. The brightest screens so far, according to measurements of Tweakers.net the screens of the BlackBerry Bold 9860 and the Prada Phone by LG 3.0, which are both approximately 700 nits display.
The Xperia U would run on a dual-core processor from ST-Ericsson, the NovaThor U8500. It is the first time that a European market announced Android smartphone running on an ST-Ericsson processor.
The device is supposedly coming Sunday announced, as Sony held a press conference gives telecombeurs Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. There are probably several Xperia smartphones announced, including the Xperia P, which has the same ST-Ericsson processor is running, but a larger screen.
