Sony Ericcson Xperia Arc S Review, Specifications and Price

Review:

Arc S is the upgraded version of Xperia Arc. The design of Arc S is similar to Xperia Arc. Arc S consists of embedded Adreno 205 GPU. Disadvantages include: mismatched widgets, the power button and camera buttons are very small. Advantages include: amazing bright and sharp screen, sleek and light in weight, good battery life than its predecessor, fast processor. The mobile comes in various vibrant colors.

Specifications or features:

Display: The size of the display is 4.2 inches LED-backlit LCD capacitive touchscreen and the resolution of the screen is 480*854 pixels, multi- touch. The display is protected by scratch-resistant glass.

Dimensions: The dimensions of the device are 125*63*8.7 mm and the weight of the phone is 117 g.

Operating System: The operating system on which this device runs is Android v 2.3.4 GingerBread, Android v 4.04 operating system and cannot be upgradable to Android v 4.1 OS and consist of Timescape User Interface, Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine. The processor installed in this device is 1.4 GHz Scorpion processor and Qualcomm MSM8255T Snaprdragon chipset. RAM is 512 MB.

Connectivity: The data connectivity features include GPRS, EDGE, 3G, GPS, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, EDR for file sharing, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n for browsing, Wi-Fi hotspot and microUSB v2.0 for sync between pc and device.

Camera: The primary camera is 8 Mega Pixels; the resolution of the camera is 3246*2448 with auto focus, LED flash and provides video recording 720p@30fps, continuous auto focus, video light and video stabilizer. There is no secondary camera. The features of camera are Geo-tagging, image stabilization, face detection and 3D sweep panorama.

Multimedia: Video formats supported are H2.64, H2.63, AVI, WMV and MP4 and audio formats supported are MP3, eAAC+, WMA, AAC and WAV player

Memory: The internal storage memory is 1GB where 320 MB is made available to the user and includes 8 GB memory card which can be expandable up to 32GB using a microSD memory card slot

Battery: The battery is li-Po 1500mAh powered battery and offers 7 hours 35 minutes of battery life for talk time and 460 hours of battery life for standby mode.

Features: Arc S consists of predictive text input, voice dialing, adobe flash, stereo FM radio with RDS, document viewer, neo reader barcode scanner, trackID music recognition

Applications: Yahoo mail, Google talk, Google search, Maps, yahoo messenger, Facebook, You Tube, and Google Mail, Facebook and twitter integration

Color: This device comes in several colors pure white, midnight blue, misty silver, gloss black and sakura pink.

Sensors: Accelerometer, compass and proximity

Price of Sony Ericcson Xperia Arc S:
The cost of Arc S is MRP Rs. 24, 500. The Arc S set comes with the device, charger, USB cable, user manual and headset.