Sony has a marketing campaign on Facebook a new smartphone for the budgetmarkt shown. The device, that Xperia Miro is called, runs on Android ICS. Also, the manufacturer with the Tipo, which is equivalent specs.
Through a special Facebook app let Sony know that the Xperia Miro put on the market is as a phone for social networking. How this exactly will look like is still unclear, but Sony claims among other things that the notifications has been updated and Facebook more deeply integrated in the operating system. He also made the manufacturer aware that the screen diagonal of 3.5″ and a 5-megapixel camera is on board.
Probably has the Xperia Miro on a Qualcomm MSM7227 soc, which runs at 800MHz. Previously came in all benchmark results out of this device, which was then still known under the name Tapioca DS. The screen resolution is according to this data 480×320 pixels. There is 512MB of ram, while 4GB is for the storage of data. Furthermore, the device according to rumours about the two simkaartslots, but Sony has not confirmed.
In addition, Sony with the Xperia Tipo and the Xperia Tipo Dual, the latter has two simkaartslots. Like the Miro, the Tipo have a 3.5″screen with a resolution of 480×320 pixels. Photos can be shot with a 3.2-megapixel camera and the device is less than 100 grams.
Finally, there’s also a European variant of the Xperia Ion, since the beginning of this year, available for the Us market. This unit has a 4,6″screen, Qualcomms MSM8660-soc which two cores at a clock speed of 1.5 GHz. Also has this high-end model features a 12-megapixel camera. In contrast to its American counterpart, the European Xperia Ion is not about 4g. When the unit needs to come out is not yet known.
Of the Xperia Miro and Xperia Tipo, Sony has announced that the release worldwide in the third quarter of this year is taking place. In addition, the phones also to the Netherlands. Given the specifications, it is a series budgettelefoons. However, this is probably the first smartphones that Sony with the release of Android 4.0 is released.
