Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro 3G Android Touch Screen Smartphone With QWERTY Keyboard , 8 MP Camera, Wi-Fi, GPS

Sony Ericsson Xperia pro is a new android powered 3.7-inch touchscreen 3G smartphone. With a physical QWERTY keyboard it includes a LED-backlit reality touch display with Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine, 720p video with continuous autofocus and an 8.0 megapixel camera. Combining a full-sized, ergonomically crafted slide-out keyboard with smart messaging functionality. Powered by the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OS, you'll get access to a wealth of Google mobile services as well as hundreds of thousands of apps from the Android Market. Created from premium materials, the Xperia Pro features a 3.7-inch Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine multi-touch display. Other features include a single-core 1 GHz processor, Wireless-N Wi-Fi networking, Bluetooth for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming, GPS for navigation (using built-in Google Maps) and location services, 1 GB internal memory, microSD expansion (up to 32 GB), access to both personal and corporate e-mail, DLNA wireless media streaming, and up to 7 hours of talk time. Here I wrote only the main key features. Read the full review Here »

Key features

• Android OS v2.3.4 Gingerbread
• 3G with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.8 Mbps HSUPA
• Four-row slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• Quad-band GSM /GPRS/EDGE support
• 3.7" 16M-color capacitive LED-backlit LCD touchscreen of FWVGA resolution (480 x 854 pixels) with Sony Mobile BRAVIA engine
• 720p video recording @ 30fps with continuous autofocus and stereo sound
• 8 MP autofocus camera with LED flash and geotagging
• Secondary front-facing VGA camera for video chats
• 1 GHz Scorpion CPU, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 chipset, 512 MB RAM
• Voice dialing
• GPS with A-GPS
• Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA
• Adobe Flash 11 support
• microSD slot up to 32GB (8GB card included)
• Accelerometer and proximity sensor
• microHDMI port
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1

Main disadvantages

• No smart dialing
• Display has poor viewing angles
• Battery cover is a hassle to open
• microSD card slot is not hot-swappable
• Black case extremely prone to fingerprints
• Slider a bit wobbly

Specifications

• 1 GHz single-core processor speeds up everything--from playing games to watching shows to opening files from work.
• 3.7-inch multi-touch display (Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine) with LED backlighting, scratch-resistant glass, and proximity sensor (480 x 854 pixels).
• Slide-out full QWERTY keyboard with Smart Keyboard functionality
• Onboard GPS with Google Maps featuring turn-by-turn navigation, street and satellite views, and more.
• Wireless-N Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g/n) for accessing home and corporate networks as well as hotspots while on the go.
• Bluetooth connectivity (version 2.1) includes communication headset, hands-free car kits, and A2DP audio streaming Bluetooth profiles.
• DLNA compatibility allows you to stream media content from the phone to any other DLNA-certified device as well as play a file from a server on your phone.
• Memory expansion via microSD card slot with support for optional cards up to 32 GB.
• 1 GB internal memory
• 8.1-megapixel camera with LED flash, 16x digital zoom, image stabilizer, auto-focus, touch focus, and red-eye reduction.
• HD 720p video capture capabilities with video stabilization.
• Front-facing VGA camera for video chats.
• Multimedia player compatible with MP3 and AAC music formats, and MPEG4, H.264, and H.263 video formats
• FM radio with RDS capabilities
• HDMI port for output to your HDTV or monitor.
• USB 2.0 port
• Access to Facebook and Twitter
• Full messaging capabilities including SMS text, MMS picture/video and IM instant messaging
• HTML browser (Webkit 5) with Flash 10.1 Support
• Personal and corporate e-mail access with support for Exchange ActiveSync accounts.
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• Speakerphone for hands-free communication.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Studio an Online Entertainment Platform Review

Sony Ericsson has launched the Xperia Studio online entertainment platform, which is designed to enable artists and collaborators to create and share their content. The Sony Ericsson's Xperia Studio project invites creative thinkers, artists and intellectuals to use Xperia handsets to remake reality and the project aims to blur the boundaries between entertainment, technology and communications. Sony Ericsson also uses six Xperia Neos to capture a 360-degree bike ride and landscape photographer Joergen Geerds was asked to compose a unique 360-degree video uing a 3D printer, he developed a custom mount to hold six Xperia Neo phones in a ring that was welded to a mountain bike and Geerds had to convert every one of the several hundred thousand frames into JPEGs, merge them as stills and then reconvert the whole thing back into video. Sony Ericsson focuses on its values and its innovator’s image and this projects have been developed from surfers, scientists, artists and more from the likes of New York, Denmark and Australia.

Sony Ericsson launched Xperia Studio, an online entertainment platform for artists and collaborators to create and share their most innovative content. The initiative reflects Sony Ericsson's ongoing commitment to engage with consumers through high-quality entertaining content to inspire them to explore their Xperia phones in new ways. The Sony Ericsson's Xperia Studio invites creative thinkers, artists and intellectuals from collaborative artists in Denmark to astrophysicists in New York to take the range of Xperia handsets to their absolute limits and ultimately 'remake reality'. Content on the platform will be updated at regular intervals from the growing pool of contributors. The first phase of the project has seen collaborators from around the world use Xperia handsets to create content in unconventional and interesting ways – a flame-thrower camera flash, a view of the universe through the naked eye, capturing the perfect wave, creating a song from the ambient sounds of Paris and most recently capturing the extreme tricks preformed by a BMX crew in Brooklyn. Each project has been video-documented and can be viewed on the Xperia Studio platform. The project underlines Sony Ericsson's heritage as an innovator that continually strives to blur the boundaries between entertainment, technology and communications. The first round of collaborators involved in the Xperia Studio project includes:

• Illutron, a collaborative interactive art studio in Copenhagen
• Dr. Joshua Peek, a Hubble Fellow and astrophysicist at Columbia University, NYC
• Ed Sloane, a lifelong surfer and innovative surf photographer from Victoria, Australia
• Annabel Linquist – an artist and musician from New York
• Torey Kish – an extreme sports enthusiast from Brooklyn

Videos:

Go Wide Or Go Home: Joergen Geerds used Xperia neos to record Mark Sevenoff’s ride down Slickrock Trail in 360 degrees. You can use your keyboard to watch every angle of it.Watch the 360 video now


Scanned: Torey Kish rides with "Act Like You Know," a BMX crew known for their web videos, riding trailers, and interviews. But now they’re showing off in a whole new way.


The Invisible Universe: What color is the night sky? Black? Sure, to the untrained eye. But with Xperia arc and Dr. Peek’s latest app, you can view the heavens in all their invisible glory: X-rays, gamma rays, far infrared, and more.


A Boatload of Inventors: It’s not the set-up for a joke — Illutron’s Collaborative Interactive Art Studio is literally on a boat. Which is where they hosted a three-day Xperia Studio Hack-A-Thon for code crackers of all levels. With flamethrowers.


Patch A Signal: The sampled micro-beats made from everyday sounds arranged by Bel Linquist into an interactive music video. Enjoy this love song backed by the sounds of the City of Lights.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Play And Arc To Get Android 2.3.3 Update

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, Arc getting Android 2.3.3 update next week, Facebook integration in tow and that would seem to make them the first non-Nexus phones to get the update. Facebook inside Xperia promises to more deeply integrate your phone (including your calendar, contacts, and even music) with the social network……….


Sony Ericsson‘s Xperia Arc and Xperia Play will waltz into the land of Android 2.3.3 next week and assuming that UK mobile networks approve, users should see their handsets ready for upgrade very soon. Both the Xperia Arc and Xperia Play will get updated to Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread and gain the new deeper Facebook integration next week. Facebook inside Xperia will add a handful of new features to Xperia handsets. Liking music currently playing on your phone will send an update to your Facebook feed, which can be clicked through for more information via Sony Ericsson‘s TrackID, whilst photos can be uploaded and now downloaded and kept on your phone. Your Facebook calendar will also sync to the phone and your Google account, meaning we’ll have no excuse for missing birthdays ever again. Contacts on your phone can also be more deeply connected to Facebook profiles, and you’ll be able to see their status updates, interests, and more. Calum MacDougall, Head of Web Service Partnerships at Sony Ericsson told us that Facebook inside Xperia was not about making a ”Facebook phone” but “enriching the experience” of using the phone alongside Facebook’s features.



MacDougall also said that these embedded Facebook features would be an ongoing project- but that it would focus on Sony Ericsson’s strength in entertainment, and vowed they wouldn’t look to replicate features that already worked well on the original Facebook app. Any Facebook-phobes will be glad to hear that these Facebook features can be switched off, either individually, or all-together, although we’re waiting to hear back from Sony Ericsson on how much space your giant Facebook photo library will take on the phone. Facebook inside Xperia will come to all future Xperia models, and all phones released so far this year. Expect to find the new features on Xperia Neo, Xperia Mini and Xperia Mini Pro later this year.

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Details: http://thetechjournal.com/electronics/android/sony-ericsson-xperia-play-and-arc-to-get-android-2-3-3-update.xhtml#ixzz1N9ZrYOP0

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