The latest innovative smartphone from Sony has been unveiled namely the Sony Xperia Sola. This phone carries one notable feature called Floating Touch which indicates the advancements made by the vendor to compete with other advanced smartphones in the market. So now, let’s take a closer look at the follwoing specs overview of Sony Xperia Sola.
In terms of design, Sony Xperia Sola comes with a bit different style than the other Xperia phone. At the front side, you will see the 3.7 inches capacitive touchscreen with 16 million colors, 480x854 pixels and the higher pixel density of 265 ppi as compared to the Xperia Neo L. The display has been added with Floating Touch, multi-touch, and scratch-resistant glass. With the Floating Touch, user doesn’t need to touch the screen while navigating the web browser and also playing around with the live wallpaper. The handset measures 116 x 59 x 9.9 mm and weighs about 107 grams. With this size and weight, the phone is comparable with other Android smartphones like LG Spectrum and Pantech Burst.
For the overall performance, Sony Xperia Sola sports the dual-core 1 Ghz processor along with the 512 MB of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage with the microSD card slot for memory expansion. Towards the main system, the phone comes packed with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) combined with the custom user interface made by the company. There will be also the Bravia mobile engine which can deliver the excellent image quality.
For the needs of photography, the phone provides the 5 MP camera with the maximum image resolution of 2592Ñ…1944 pixels along with the autofocus, single-LED flash, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, 3D sweep panorama and image stabilization. This camera can be used as HD video recorder with the 720p quality @30fps along with the continuous autofocus and video light features.
To access the web, Sony Xperia Sola runs on quad-band GSM network to access the 2G network and quad-band HSDPA network to access the 3G network. For the wireless network, there will be the Wi-Fi (hotspot), Bluetooth 2.1, NFC and SmartTag feature. The web browser supports for HTML5 and Adobe Flash so that user can perform the full web browsing experience. There will be also the SNS integration, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Google Talk and YouTube app.
The standard battery of Li-ion 1320 mAh has been added which can deliver the stand-by time of up to 470 hours (2G) or up to 475 hours (3G). The battery will also provide the talk-time of about 6 hours (2G) or up to 5 hours (3G). For the music playback, user will be given nearly 40 hours of music playing (continuously).
The price of Sony Xperia Sola is about €300 or $399. The benefits of this phone are the sleek design, high pixel density, spacious internal storage, NFC, SmartTag and Floating Touch feature. However, the phone still uses the Android 2.3 rather than the 4.0, and also it lacks digital compass and front-facing camera. [IS]
