It was a long time Sony Experia Ion has unveiled by Sony Mobile, but not yet officially announcement When Xperia Ion will be relesed to the market. The latest news, Sony has officially introduced its Xperia Ion smartphone in Taiwan, where it should become available in the near future, for an unknown price.
As we told you earlier this week, the Xperia Ion for Taiwan has the model number LT28i, unlike AT&T’s version (LT28at). It doesn’t have LTE connectivity, but the rest of its features are unchanged from the North American edition, including: a 4.6 inch Reality Display with 1280 x 720 pixels, Wi-Fi, DLNA, 12MP rear camera with 1080p video recording, 1.3MP front-facing camera, 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of built-in memory. The Ion runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, with an update to Android 4.0 ICS being planned for later this year.
For the moment, we don’t know if the Xperia Ion will be introduced in other markets. But we’ll let you know as soon as we find more details on this.
The number of best apps for Xperia Ion and best Games for Xperia Ion available for the platform has rocketed. And that means more free Android apps and games for Xperia Ion. There's a lot of junk out there but, fortunately, there are gems among the junk.
We've worked our way through a whole load of Android games to reveal the ones you should download to your Xperia Ion. If we've missed your favourite free Android game, let us know in the comments.
1. Angry Birds
The amazingly popular iOS game moved to Android a while ago, earning over two million downloads during its first weekend of availability.
The Android version is free, unlike the Apple release, with maker Rovio opting to stick a few adverts on it rather than charge an upfront fee. The result is a massive and very challenging physics puzzler that's incredibly polished and professional. For free. It defies all the laws of modern retail.
Angry Birds for Android was first available to download from app store GetJar but is now available through Google Play.
2. Bebbled
Bebbled is your standard gem-shuffling thing, only presented in a professional style you wouldn't be surprised to see running on something featuring a Nintendo badge with an asking price of £19.99.
You only drop gems on other gems to nuke larger groups of the same colour, but with ever-tightening demands for score combos and scenes that require you to rotate your phone to flip the play field on its head, Bebbled soon morphs into an incredibly complex challenge.
3. Red Stone
There's an awful lot of square-shuffling games on Android and Red Stone is one of the best. And one of the hardest. You start off with a big fat 'King' square that's four times of the normal 'pawn' squares, then set about shuffling things so the fat King can get through to an exit at the top of the screen.
It's hard to accurately describe a puzzle game in the written word, but seriously, it's a good game.
4. Newton
Released a few months back in beta form, Newton is a maths/physics challenge that has you lining up shots at a target - but having to contend with the laws of nature, in the form of pushers, pullers, benders (no laughing), mirrors and traps, all deflecting your shot from its target.
The developer is still adding levels to it at the moment, so one day Newton might be finished and might cost money. But for now it's free and a great indie creation.
5. Sketch Online
Surprisingly free of crude representations of the male genitalia, Sketch Online is a sociable guessing game where users do little drawings then battle to correctly guess what's being drawn first. It's like Mavis Beacon for the Bebo generation. The version labelled "Beta" is free, and if you like it there's the option to pay for an ad-free copy. But Google can't make you. Yet.
6. Drop
Some might call Drop a game, others might classify it as a tech demo that illustrates the accuracy of the Android platform's accelerometer, thanks to how playing it simply involves tilting your phone while making a little bouncy ball falls between gaps in the platforms. Either way it'll amuse you for a while and inform you of the accuracy of your accelerometer - a win-win situation.
7. Frozen Bubble
Another key theme of the independent Android gaming scene is (ports of) clones of popular titles. Like Frozen Bubble, which is based around the ancient and many-times-copied concept of firing gems up a screen to make little groups of similarly coloured clusters. That's what you do. You've probably done it a million times before, so if it's your thing get this downloaded. 8. Replica Island
Replica Island is an extremely polished platform game that pulls off the shock result of being very playable on an Android trackball. The heavy momentum of the character means you're only switching direction with the ball or d-pad, letting you whizz about the levels with ease. Then there's jumping, bottom-bouncing, collecting and all the other usual platform formalities.
9. Gem Miner
In Gem Miner you are a sort of mole character that likes to dig things out of the ground. But that's not important. The game itself has you micro-managing the raw materials you find, upgrading your digging powers and buying bigger and better tools and maps. Looks great, plays well on Android's limited button array. Go on, suck the very life out of the planet.
10. ConnecToo
Another coloured-square-based puzzle game, only ConnecToo has you joining them up. Link red to red, then blue to blue - then see if you've left a pathway through to link yellow to yellow. You probably haven't, so delete it all and try again. A brilliantly simple concept. ConnecToo used to be a paid-for game, but was recently switched to an ad-supported model - meaning it now costs you £0.00. 11. Titres
Once you're successfully rewired your brain's 25 years of playing Tetris in a certain way with certain buttons and got used to tapping the screen to rotate your blocks, it's... Tetris. It hinges on how much you enjoy placing things with your phone's trackball or pad. If you're good at it, it's a superb Tetris clone. Let's hope it doesn't get sued out of existence. UPDATE: While Titres seems to have been removed from Google Play, there's now an official Tetris app available to download.
12. Trap!
Not the best-looking game you'll ever play, with its shabby brown backgrounds and rudimentary text making it look like something you'd find running on a PC in the year 1985. But Trap! is good. You draw lines to box in moving spheres, gaining points for cordoning off chunks of the screen. That sounds rubbish, so please invest two minutes of your time having a go on it so you don't think we're talking nonsense.
13. Jewels
Coloured gems again, and this time your job is to switch pairs to make larger groups which then disappear. That might also sound quite familiar. The good thing about Jewels is its size and presentation, managing to look professional while packing in more levels than should really be given away for free. 14. OpenSudoku
We had to put one Sudoku game in here, so we'll go with OpenSudoku - which lives up to its open tag thanks to letting users install packs of new puzzles generated by Sudoku makers. It's entirely possible you could use this to play new Sudoku puzzles for the rest of your life, if that's not too terrifying a thought.
15. Abduction!
Abduction! is a sweet little platform jumping game, presented in a similarly quirky and hand-drawn style as the super-fashionable Doodle Jump. You can't argue with cute cows and penguins with parachutes, or a game that's easy to play with one hand thanks to its super accessible accelerometer controls.
16. The Great Land Grab
A cross between a map tool and Foursquare, The Great Land Grab sorts your local area into small rectangular packets of land - which you take ownership of by travelling through them in real-time and buying them up. Then someone else nicks them off you the next day, a bit like real-world Risk. A great idea, as long as you don't mind nuking your battery by leaving your phone sitting there on the train with its GPS radio on. 17. Brain Genius Deluxe Our basic legal training tells us it's better to use the word "homage" than to label something a "rip-off", so we'll recommend this as a simple "homage" to the famed Nintendo Brain Training franchise. Clearly Brain Genius Deluxe is not going to be as slick, but there's enough content in here to keep you "brain training" (yes, it even uses that phrase) until your battery dies. The presentation's painfully slow, but then again that might be the game teaching you patience.
18. Coloroid
Coloroid is aery, very simple and has the look of the aftermath of an explosion in a Tetris factory, but it works. All you do is expand coloured areas, trying to fill them in with colours in as few moves as possible - like using Photoshop's fill tool at a competitive level. 19. Cestos
Cestos is sort of a futuristic recreation of curling, where players chuck marbles at each other to try and smash everyone else's balls/gems down the drain and out of the zone. The best part is this all happens online against real humans, so as long as there's a few other bored people out there at the same time you'll have a real, devious, cheating, quitting person to play against. Great.
20. Air Control
One of the other common themes on the Android gaming scene is clones of games based around pretending to be an air traffic controller, where you guide planes to landing strips with a swish of your finger. There are loads of them, all pretty much the same thing - we've chosen Air Control as it's an ad-supported release, so is technically free.
21. GalaxIR
GalaxIR is a futuristic strategy game with an abstract look, where players micro-manage an attacking alien fleet. Pick a planet, pick an attack point, then hope your troops have the balls to carry it off. There's not much structure to the game as yet, but that's what you get when you're on the bleeding-edge of free, independent Android gaming development. 22. Graviturn
Graviturn is an accelerometer based maze game, where the aim is to roll a red ball out of a maze by tilting your phone around. Seems embarrassingly easy at first, until increasing numbers of green balls appear on screen. If any green balls roll off the screen you die and have to try again. It's abstract. It's good.
23. Alchemy Classic
There are a few variants on Alchemy out there, each offering a similarly weird experience. In Alchemy Classic you match up elements to create their (vaguely) scientific offspring, so dumping water onto earth makes a swamp, and so on. It's a brain teaser thing and best played by those who enjoy spending many hours in the company of the process of elimination.
24. ActionPotato
In ActionPotato you control three pots. Pressing on the pots makes them jump up into the air, where they harvest potatoes. See how many you can get in a row. That's the gist of it. And don't collect the rotten potatoes, else you die. That really is it. The Google Play stats say this is on well over 1,000,000 downloads, so it's doing something right.
25. Scrambled Net
Scrambled Net is based around the age-old concept of lining up pipes and tubes, but has been jazzed up with images of computer terminals, high score tracking and animations. Still looks like something you'd have played on a Nokia during the last decade, but it's free - and looking rubbish hardly stopped Snake from taking off, did it?
We give you a Sony Xperia Ion Review first look at the upcoming Sony Xperia ion, the first Sony 4G LTE smartphone, in this episode. The Xperia ion features a 4.55-inch thigh definition ouchscreen display, 12 megapixel camera, and a 1.5 GHz dual core processor. It can shoot 1080p video with the rear camera, and 720p video using the camera up front. Hit the video for the full scoop on the Xperia ion!
Sony Xperia Ion Review
The latest Sony Xperia phone may have lost the word Ericsson from its title, thanks to some rebranding by the company, but it has also gained a lot in return.
For starters, its Sony's first ever handset to connect to an LTE 4G network, with AT&T already announced as a carrier in the US. On top of that, it has a large 4.6-inch, 720p screen, with 1,280x720 pixels delivering an impressive visual experience.
The Ion also boasts a 12-megapixel rear camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera. That 12-megapixels isn't just a meaningless number as the snaps we took on the show floor were vibrant and very detailed. Those looking to make more use of the camera will appreciate the dedicated hardware button and a fairly quick shutter speed, too.
Wandering around CES, it's easy to see the blurring of the lines between handsets as mobile entertainment on the go and phones being used as game and video players in the home.
The Xperia Ion seems to fit into those blurred boundaries nicely. As well as the obvious PlayStation certification for those game titles available on Android, it also has a micro-HDMI-out port, plus a compatible dock that enables viewing on larger displays. This means users can play music, view photos and even send SMS messages using the TV, while the phone itself can also apparently be controlled using any TV remote (although we weren't able to test that claim).
The Ion even uses a mobile version of Sony’s Bravia Engine, which as the name suggests is the same system Sony uses on its Bravia line of HD televisions. The effect is supposed to be more life like when it comes to colours and tones.
No complaints here then? Well, there is the little matter that the phone currently only snacks on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, like the other Sony handset unveiled at CES 2012, the Xperia S. Sony says the Ion will eventually move up the food chain to run Icecream Sandwich - aka Android 4.0 - but no date has been set for the update.
At least the Xperia Ion's current interface was quick in our tests. Overall, what the Ion might lack in looks it more than makes up for in functionality and it's a powerful device, thanks to a 1.5GHz dual core SnapDragon processor.
A set release date or price for the Xperia Ion is yet to be announced but Sony is expected to deliver the phone in the second quarter of 2012. We'll let you know when a price surfaces.
CES 2012 was a huge event for many mobile manufacturers showcasing their new products for this year. Many of them proved to be quite heavy contenders with their awesome line-up of smartphones, tablets, and accessories for the coming months. CES 2012 also marked the end of Sony Ericsson and the birth of Sony Mobile Communications.
At the same CES 2012, the previously rumored Sony Xperia Nozomi finally made its first official appearance, with Sony’s introducing the device as the Xperia Ion for AT&T in the U.S. and as the Xperia S for the rest of the world.
If you have been a loyal Sony Ericsson Xperia fan before, then you’ll surely love the way Sony has still kept the Xperia branding on their two new mobile phones.
Although the Sony Xperia Ion and Xperia S are two totally different devices, they are very much the same in terms of features and specifications. Read on and find out our first impressions of the Comparison Xperia S and Xperia Ion.
Design and Display
Both the Xperia S and Xperia Ion are nearly the same devices. Although they don’t look alike, the two phones share a lot of similar hardware specifications.
The two devices are almost of the same size, with only a few millimeters difference. The Xperia Ion is 133 mm tall and 68 mm wide, while the Xperia S is 128 mm tall and 64 mm wide. Both are also nearly of the same thickness, with the Xperia Ion measuring 10.8 mm and the Xperia S measuring 10.6 mm. They both weigh 144 grams.
The AT&T Xperia Ion features a 4.55-inch touchscreen display cramming up to 323 ppi while the international version, the Xperia S, sports a 4.3-inch touchscreen display with a larger pixel density of 342 ppi.
Both phones have an identical screen resolution of 720×1280 pixels and use the same Sony signature trademark display technology, the Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine.
Storage and Processor
The Xperia S and Xperia Ion come packed with 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage. The only downside of the Xperia S is that it doesn’t feature a microSD card slot. The Xperia Ion has one that can support up to 32 GB of external storage. Powering both devices is a 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260 processor with Adreno 220 GPU.
Camera
In the camera department, both phones feature an impressive 12 MP camera that can take shots up to a maximum of 4000×3000 pixels and a 1.3 MP shooter on the front side for video calls. Previous Xperia handsets are known for their impressive Sony cameras. It will be little surprise if the ones on the Xperia Ion and the Xperia S would be anything less than great in quality.
Operating System
Both the Xperia Ion and Xperia S run on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and both are slated for upgrading to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich within the year. Previous owners of Sony Ericsson Xperia devices will not need to learn their way around the interface, as the two devices sport the same familiar Timescape UI of its predecessors.
Conclusion
With Sony already owning Ericsson’s shares, it’s about time that the company shook up the competition. Both the Xperia Ion and Xperia S are Sony’s first dual-core offerings promising better performance in terms of speed and functionality. It’s too early to say whether Sony will succeed with its latest Xperia offerings, but it’s good to know that Sony is integrating its expertise in consumer electronics to the company’s pioneering smartphones.
This is a demo video showing the all new Xperia ion, which will be available on the US market, and carried exclusively by AT&T. Xperia™ ion is the first Xperia™ LTE smartphone, and it features a 1.5 GHz dual core processor with Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 Mobile Processor, 1 GB RAM, a 4.6-inch, 720x1280 resolution reality display, 12 MP camera with Exmor R™ mobile sensor, NFC, and much more!
The Ion has a 4.6-inch, 1280-by-720 pixel HD that looked absolutely gorgeous in person. And because the design of the phone itself is so pared down and trim, it didn't feel unwieldy like some other phones with 4.5-inch+ displays can. There's a built-in HDMI-out port, which means you easily view the content of your phone over an HDTV. The phone is also capable of sharing content via DLNA and Bravia Sync.
The Ion is sporting some impressive specs under the hood, as well. It's powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor, and comes with 16GB of built-in memory. There's also an empty microSD card slot, which allows you to add up to 32GB of additional memory. The phone is running Android 2.3.7 (Gingerbread), and Sony has pledged to upgrade its devices to Ice Cream Sandwich. It felt super swift and responsive as we swiped between home screens and loaded apps.
Sony Xperia Ion Specifications :
Available colors
Black
Platform
Android 2.3
Size
133.0 × 68.0 × 10.6 mm / 5.2 × 2.7 × 0.4 inches
Weight
144.0 gr / 5.1 oz
Memory
Flash memory: 16GB eMMC RAM: 1 GB Memory card slot: microSD™, up to 32GB
Actual free memory may vary due to phone pre-configuration
Screen
4.55" 16M colour TFT / 1280x720 pixels
Battery performance
Battery performance may vary depending on network conditions and configuration, and phone usage.
Networks
Talk time (up to)
Standby time (up to)
Video call (up to)
LTE Band IV and Band XVII
10 hours
400 hours
UMTS/HSPA 850/1900/2100
4 hours
350 hours
GSM /EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
10 hours
400 hours
A Standby time specification is an industry standard. The only intention is to allow comparison of different mobile phones under the same circumstances. Factors including - but not limited to - network, settings, location, movement, signal strength and cell traffic strongly effect standby power consumption. Therefore, Standby time specification comparisons of different mobile phones can only be done in a controlled laboratory environment. When using any mobile phone in real life - ie, under circumstances for which the mobile phone is intended - the actual standby time could be considerably lower and will be strongly dependent on factors as mentioned above.
Xperia Ion Features : Entertainment at the speed of delight
Why wait to be entertained? Browse the web and download apps at incredible speeds. Snap, shoot and share your best pics and videos super quick with the LTE network and a 1.5Ghz dual processor.
Xperia Ion Features : 4.6” HD Reality Display* with Mobile BRAVIA® Engine
Enhanced contrast. Richer colors. Less image noise. The Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA® Engine makes the super-wide, LED back-lit screen sharp and crisp. And through reduced light reflection, the picture stays clear when you're outdoors too.
Xperia Ion Features : Snap your shots in an instant
Some events are too good to miss. Now you don't have to. Start your camera in just over a second. Pointing and shooting takes one second too. And you can keep on shooting. No delays, no missing the subject. Just you capturing that special moment forever. Then share it directly, on Facebook™ or in a message.
Xperia Ion Features : Sharp chatting in HD
Chat away. Sharper than ever. Xperia™ ion has a 720p front-facing camera perfect for video calls with Google™ Talk or Skype™*.
*Skype™ for Android available for free from the Android™ market
Xperia Ion Features : Sony Entertainment Network
12 million songs. Thousands of movies. From the major music labels and film studios. Enjoy it all on your Xperia™ ion with the Sony Entertainment Network services Video Unlimited and Music Unlimited.
The number of tracks available varies by country and may be less.
Xperia Ion Features : PlayStation™ certified
Fingers itching? Head to the PlayStation® Store for titles specially optimized for this PlayStation® certified smartphone.
Xperia Ion Features : Your life in brilliant HD
Vacation videos, baby's first steps…record it all in brilliant HD video with one touch of a button.
Xperia Ion Features : Facebook inside Xperia™
See, share, like and comment on tracks and photos on Facebook™ straight from your music player or gallery. Share and recommend the apps you like, and like the music you love. Even directly from the FM radio. Check out what your friends are recommending with the Music & Videos app.
Xperia Ion Features : Connect to your TV via HDMI
Connect your Xperia™ ion to your TV and cuddle up in the sofa. The HDMI connection lets you view pictures and videos from your phone on your TV screen using your TV remote control.
Sony Xperia Ion is one of latest phone by Sony Mobile. The Ion has a 4.6-inch, 1280-by-720 pixel HD that looked absolutely gorgeous in person. And because the design of the phone itself is so pared down and trim, it didn't feel unwieldy like some other phones with 4.5-inch+ displays can.
There's a built-in HDMI-out port, which means you easily view the content of your phone over an HDTV. The phone is also capable of sharing content via DLNA and Bravia Sync.
Sony Mobile has kept the US release of the AT&T-bound Xperia ion (LT28at) close to its chest. A release date has been nowhere to be found, yet a Google ad may have given the first indication that the handset is indeed on its way. When searching for the Xperia ion on Google, one of the paid searches showed that the Xperia ion was “Coming Exclusively to AT&T in June”.
Whilst this is towards the end of the Q2 launch date originally given, it’s great that we at least have a vague launch date. So Sony Xperia Ion Availability In USA is at June 2012.
The US launch would tie in with what we are hearing about the launch date for the international version of the Xperia ion (LT28i). Taiwan Mobile will start taking pre-orders for the Xperia ion on 15 May, with the phone going on sale at the end of May.
Sony Xperia Ion Price
Sony Xperia Ion the sim-free price in Taiwan will be NT$19,900 ($678, €522, £420). We’re still to hear when the international version of the Xperia ion will launch outside of Taiwan.
The first day of world's largest international consumer technology tradeshow appeared to be quite fertile for Sony Electronics (yes, SE is rebranded as Sony), with its President and COO, Phil Molyneux unveiling their most recent Android smartphone, the Sony Xperia Ion.
Promising to experience pure entertainment in brilliant HD, Sony Xperia Ion is quite easy to fall in love with! The phone hooks up into the 4G LTE network of AT&T, being available this spring. The 12MP camera to capture your memories in less than a second and an extremely thin design grabbed the attention of many, without a hands-on look at the device.
Other noteworthy specs include a 4.6-inch HD touchscreen, HDMI-out, plus an interface for a TV launcher and a 1280×720 display that makes use of Sony’s Mobile Bravia Engine – suspected to be the same technology as to Sony’s line of Bravia TVs.
A compatible dock, the Xperia Ion comes with, enables larger display viewing, and when attached to a TV, users have the ability to play music, view photos and even send out SMS messages from the Xperia Ion to the TV- controlled using any TV remote!
As for the external appearance - Xperia Ion comes housed in an aluminum shell that's promoted as "thin, lightweight, and durable" and the screen is one of Sony's so-called Mobile Bravia Reality Display modules — a technology offering a laminated, gapless appearance.
A release date and price on the Xperia Ion is yet to be announced by Sony, but look for it to launch on AT&T this spring, and don't worry — an Android Ice Cream Sandwich is already in the works!
The Sony Xperia Ion will be the first Sony-branded phone to grace the U.S. market. Coming to AT&T, it packs in 4G LTE speed and a 12-megapixel camera, along with a guaranteed upgrade from Android 2.3.7 to version 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich."
Sony Ericsson is in the middle of becoming Sony; while Sony bought out the Ericsson part of the partnership, the transaction still hasn't legally closed. That means a firm still technically called Sony Ericsson is introducing smartphones with the Sony name on them.
We played with it a bit at the CES trade show. Slim, sleek, and ultra-sharp, the Ion was among the nicest devices we handled at CES.
The Ion has a 4.6-inch, 1280-by-720 pixel HD that looked absolutely gorgeous in person. And because the design of the phone itself is so pared down and trim, it didn't feel unwieldy like some other phones with 4.5-inch+ displays can. There's a built-in HDMI-out port, which means you easily view the content of your phone over an HDTV. The phone is also capable of sharing content via DLNA and Bravia Sync.
The Ion is sporting some impressive specs under the hood, as well. It's powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor, and comes with 16GB of built-in memory. There's also an empty microSD card slot, which allows you to add up to 32GB of additional memory. The phone is running Android 2.3.7 (Gingerbread), and Sony has pledged to upgrade its devices to Ice Cream Sandwich. It felt super swift and responsive as we swiped between home screens and loaded apps.
Xperia Ion Picture
The Xperia Ion also features an impressive 12-megapixel rear-facing camera that captures 1080p video at 30 frames per second. The camera uses Sony's Exmor R sensor, which Sony said greatly improves low-light performance. The camera was especially fast when we tried it out, snapping clear photos almost instantaneously. There's also a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video chat that is capable of recording 720p video at 30 frames per second.
The Ion will be PlayStation certified, running at least some PlayStation games. Sony's Playstation-everywhere strategy has been a little muddled. The Xperia Play phones have about 200 optimized games, but the Sony Tablet S only had a few dozen when I looked at it, and many well-known PS2 (not to mention PS3) names are missing. Sony execs said that over time, the Ion will gain more PS1 and PS2 games.
It's also unclear whether the Ion will better integrate Sony's media services than the Sony Tablet S ($399, 3 stars) does. Sony owns a lot of great content, but its Crackle, Ustream, Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited services didn't connect with each other at all, requiring multiple sign-ins.
The Ion doesn't have a release date or pricing info yet, other than that it will be available in the "second quarter" of the year. By then it will go up against the HTC Titan II, which sports a 16-megapixel camera (albeit one which might not be as high quality as the Ion's) and the Nokia Lumia 900, with a high-quality 8-megapixel shooter sporting a Carl Zeiss lens.
Sony has taken to the company’s Facebook page to tease a “big announcement” coming at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show. Keen-eyed readers suggest that the teaser images, pictured above, could depict the sequel to the Xperia Arc, though nothing has been confirmed.
Over the past few weeks we have seen various Sony leaks suggesting that the company will soon announce a mega-phone set to launch on AT&T, code-named the LT28at. Sony Ericsson also recently registered a new trademark for the name Xperia Ion, and rumors have suggested that the “Nozomi” smartphone may land at this year’s show as well. Whether it is an Xperia Ion, Arc HD or the Nozomi, Sony looks to be gearing up for something big at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.
We have been reporting about the possible Sony Ericsson smartphone launches at Consumer Electronics Show and now company has started teasing the same. SE today posted on its official Google Plus page – “Something big is coming! Stay tuned for some exciting news next week.”
So, what is this ‘something big that is coming at CES,’ probably Xperia arc HD or Xperia Ion, two of the leaked smartphones that are expected to be officially announced at CES. According to leaks and rumors till now, Xperia Ion aka LT28at features a 4.55 inch HD display, 13MP rear camera, front camera with 720p recording, and LTE connectivity. On the other hand Xperia arc HD aka LT26i Nozomi will feature 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 12MP camera, 4.3-inch HD display (720 x 1280 pixels), 1GB of RAM, 32GB of ROM, and 1750mAh battery.
Just a few more days of wait, Sony Ericsson has a press conference scheduled on January 10 and we expect these devices to be launched the same day.
Image Credit : SE Fans Page Facebook
Update: Sony Ericsson has posted a similar message on its Facebook Page and it has a photograph of group of friends (photo above) and one of them is holding an unreleased smartphone. Any guesses guys?
Sony Xperia Ion (LT28at), The phone is rumored to be using the 1.5 GHz dual core processor. Regarding the OS, probably Sony Ericsson will choose Android because they use the name that has become a trademark Xperia Android phones from Sony Ericsson.
Other specs, this phone comes with 4.5 inch screen with a resolution of 720 × 1280 pixels. at the back there is a back-illuminated 13MP camera with LED flash feature, and a camera on the front for video calling.There has been no official information released by Sony Ericsson linked the existence of this phone.
Not close the possibility of this phone will be introduced in the CES event, or even in the Mobile World Congress. So just wait for further news.
In the coming year, Sony Ericsson plans to have more of an Android presence in the United States. Earlier rumors suggested that Sony is planning a high-end smartphone that will land on AT&T, code-named “LT28at.” Additionally, another high-end device code-named “Nozomi” is currently being tested by carriers in Hong Kong and could possibly make its way stateside. According to a recently filed trademark with the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office, Sony is looking to market a new device as the “Xperia Ion.” The trademark was filed shortly before the holidays on December 13th for use in connection with “mobile phones.” With the Consumer Electronic Show just around the corner, we could certainly see this new Xperia device revealed at the show in just over a week.
Sony Ericsson has been a regular in the headlines in the last couple of days when it was reported that the manufacturer is getting ready to launch a new flagship device in the form of the LT28at. In addition to that, there have been leaks as well about the Sony Ericsson Nozomi, a handset that could very well be running for the flagship title as well.
Sad to say, we are currently lacking with details about the two handsets. In addition to that, it hasn’t been ascertained yet if the LT28at and the Nozomi are one and the same and not two distinct smartphones. What we can be certain of though is that there is a possibility that Sony Ericsson will release a device that will have the name “Xperia Ion”.
This development came up when the company reserved the Xperia Ion name via the USPTO and filed for a trademark with serial number 85493863 for the said model name. due to this, there is a fair chance that the handset that Sony Ericsson will be unveiling at CES 2012 could very well have this name for that matter.
If it turns out to be the Nozomi that gets the Xperia Ion branding, here are the details of its specs sheet to give you an idea of what the handset brings to the table.
The Nozomi will come with a circuitry based on the SnapDragon platform and this handset is expected to pack a QualComm Snapdrago chipset with an SoC architecture. This type of chipset will give the Nozomi a dual-core 1.5GHz Scorpion processor in addition to a dedicated Adreno 220 graphics processing unit.
The Nozomi is also expected to pack a full gigabyte of RAM and would be available in either 16GB or 32GB version when it comes to its storage capacity. It is also expected to show up with a massive 4.3-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen display with a 1280 x 720 resolution and pixel density of 342 ppi. The display of the Nozomi is said to made of scratch-resistant glass while the shooters of the handset will be a rear-facing 12MP shooter and a front-facing video call camera. The rear unit of the Nozomi is said to be capable of capturing 1080p clips at 30fps.
When talking about the LT28at on the other hand, this device is said to be headed AT&T’s way once it becomes officially announced. Not much is known about the handset at this point but certain leaks point to the device as having a dual-core processor running at 1.5GHz. it also comes with a bigger 4.55-inch Reality Display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.
In addition to that, the LT28at is also expected to come with LTE support in addition to the whopping 13-megapixel shooter that graces its back panel. The front shooter of the LT28at on the other hand is rumored to be capable of capturing 720p clips. All in all, Sony Ericsson is said to be breaking into the superphone category with the LT28at.
Whichever way the Xperia Ion name gets used, we are pretty sure that Sony Ericsson has got some rather exciting smartphones up its sleeve just waiting to be released. With that in mind, we just can’t wait for the company to make the announcements.
Will Sony (once dropping the Ericsson bit becomes final) be adding a model to its Xperia line of Androids called the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ion? That's the latest theory going around, thanks to the discovery of the product name in a trademark filing with the USPTO. Just what might this hardware end up being?
What is Sony Ericsson Xperia Ion ?
For the moment, at least until we learn something else that helps to narrow-down the field any, the Xperia Ion is a potential name for any of the Sony Androids we've learned of being in development. We recently saw some pictures snapped by the thirteen-megapixel LT28at (Sony Ericsson Xperia Ion), and its Bluetooth SIG paperwork claimed the phone would see a release in North America, presumably continuing the Xperia name. While nothing specifically ties it to the Ion, it's as good a possibility as any.
There's also the possibility that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ion will be a new name for some hardware we've already heard identified, like the Nozomi. This seems like a less likely possibility than something like the LT28at (Sony Ericsson Xperia Ion) taking the name, but it's still one to consider.
Android-maker Sony Ericsson has filed for the XPERIA Ion trademark for what is speculated to be a variant of the company’s codenamed Nozomi smartphone, which boasts high-end specs. The LT28at model is believed to be a variant of the rumored Nozomi phone with a 4.55-inch display with a 1280 X 720-pixel 720p HD resolution screen.
The trademark was originally filed on December 13, and it’s unclear what name the phone may be released under. Previous speculations had it that the Nozomi phone would be branded as an XPERIA Arc HD handset.
The device may be introduced by the handset maker as early as CES this year, or a year after the XPERIA Arc was introduced at CES 2011.
In addition to the high resolution screen, the LT28at is believed to have a 13-megapixel camera, giving it the most megapixel of any phone released so far in the U.S. The previous title went to Nokia with its large 12-megapixel camera sensor and Carl Zeiss optics on the Nokia N8, which also had a Xenon flash.
The LT28at is rumored to also support 4G LTE alongside HSPA+ on AT&T’s carrier network.
Sony Xperia Ion specifications showed up on the Official Bluetooth SIG site, The Verge reports. So what else can we expect from this 'super phone'? Sony Ericsson Xperia Ion specs will run Android, and while there's no mention of which version, the fact it has a 720p screen (the native resolution for Ice Cream Sandwich) hints it could be ICS.
Bluetooth 2.1 EDR will come as standard, as well as a 720p front-facing camera, LED flash on the rear 13-megapixel effort, Wi-Fi, and dual microphones. It'll also have LTE for super-fast web browsing, but that doesn't mean diddly for us Brits, seeing as we won't get 4G till around 2015.
It's listed as "Coming later" with availability listed as North America, but fingers crossed we'll see a UK release. The Xperia Arc HD isn't even out yet, and already looks like it has a successor.
A couple of images of the Xperia Arc HD leaked earlier this month. It'll have a 4.3-inch screen, with a specs resolution of 720x1,280-pixels, matching the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Though apparently it'll come with Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread instead of Ice Cream Sandwich, which is a bit of a disappointment. Sony Ericsson Xperia Ion specifications also expected to have a 12-megapixel camera.
The new mobile phone Sony Xperia Ion specs is expected to arrive on shelves with a 4.55-inch Reality display that can Sony Ericsson Xperia Ion specs deliver a HD 720p resolution (1280 x 720 pixels).
Moreover, the new high-end smartphone Sony Xperia Ion specs should pack a fast 1.4 or 1.5GHz dual-core application processor, which translates into great performance capabilities specs.
On the back, the new device is expected to feature a 13-megapixels BSI (backside illumination) photo snapper, which should feature LED Flash and auto focus, as well as HD 720p video recording. It will be accompanied by a front camera with video calling features.
When it comes to connectivity, the new handset will sport WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1 capabilities, along with 4G LTE and 3G. It will also include a built-in GPS receiver.
One thing that has not been detailed for the time being is the platform version that the smartphone will arrive on shelves with. All that we know at the moment is that it packs Google’s Android operating system.
The Sony Xperia Ion is set to land on shelves on the North American continent sometime next year and should be included in the company’s popular Xperia series.
The Sony Ericsson LT28at, that is described as an Xperia “super phone”, may have a name according to a recent trademark filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. On December 13, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB filed a trademark for “Xperia Ion”.
The goods and services covered under the application (Serial Number: 85493863) include nothing more than mobile phones, similar to its trademark filings for the Xperia Play and Xperia Arc.
Earlier this month a number of sites reported that Sony will likely unveil its new Xperia smartphones at CES 2012. CES 2012 is taking place in Las Vegas, from January 10-13, 2012. The Xperia Arc, one of the newest models in the Xperia line, was revealed at CES 2011.
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Sony Ericsson is expected to launch several Android phones at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month and one of the devices being launched might be called Xperia Ion. This name was recent spotted in a trademark filing at USTPO under goods and services (mobile phones) by SE.
Filing has not revealed any other details, but it is being rumored that the recently leaked LT28at superphone will get this name.
Sony Ericsson (soon going to be Sony) LT28at is expected to feature 4.55-inch 720p Reality display, 13MP rear camera with LED flash, front camera with 720p recording capability and a 1.5GHz dual-core processor.
We are just weeks again from CES, so it won’t take long before we get an official confirmation about this. Stay tight and we will be bringing you all the CES news right here.
Sony Ericsson has filed a trademark for Xperia Ion, a name that could eventually find its way to the recently uncovered LT28at smartphone. The trademark, which was filed on December 13th, is associated with a serial number of 85493863.
The Sony Ericsson LT28at looks to be the manufacturer’s flagship device of 2012 with a 4.55-inch 720p display and 13MP camera. The Xperia Ion name has not been definitively linked with the LT28at, but it is safe to assume we might see a device appear under the branding at CES 2012. Sony is set to kick off their week of gadgety goodness on Monday, January 9th with a special presentation for show attendees.
