Guest Paul Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Sony have announced the launch of two 12 Megapixel camera toting smartphones, the Xperia S and the Xperia Ion. The S is being marketed as Sony's flagship handset while the Ion is a US only LTE enabled handset. Both are initially running Android 2.3 but with upgrades to 4.0 coming later. The Ion is Sony's first foray into the LTE smartphone market. The specs from Sony for both are pretty similar with the only difference being the size of the displays: 1.5 GHz dual core processor with Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 Mobile Processor1 GB RAMIon - 4.6-inch, 720×1280 resolution reality displayS - 4.3-inch, 720×1280 resolution reality displayAdreno 220 GPUMobile BRAVIA Engine12 MP camera with Exmor R™ mobile sensorNFC The two devices have quite different looks - the Ion is a sleeker looking device, where the S has a few more design features. The Ion will be available in black, the Xperia S in black or white. The Ion is on the left, the S on the right - what do you think? Source: Sony This item was promoted to the News page - click here to view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 I think the Ion looks better... what's weird about this is no front hardware buttons it seems? How does that work on Gingerbread? P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mark Dearlove Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Agreed - does seem a bit odd that there are no hardware buttons. I would be surprised if they really do launch either with 2.3 and not ICS regardless of their press release Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rhyd Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 This picture makes the button situation clearer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mark Dearlove Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 That clears that up! Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hecatae Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 are you sure that the actual back cover, strange that it has the Sony Ericsson logo on a purely Sony product Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest everett_psycho Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) According to a leak from phones for you they have dibs on the white Sony xperia s but the rest of the range is for everyone. They are claiming a March release. I got it from electic pig but just noticed there's no source link to back it up Sent from my Optimus 2X using Tapatalk Edited January 10, 2012 by everett_psycho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mark Dearlove Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 All the images are direct from the articles on the Sony site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest subzer0wbb Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 the ion definitely looks better, shame its not available in the UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hecatae Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 32gb internal storage only :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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