Sony Ericsson just announced their newest Android smartphone. Called the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, the handset packs some serious camera and multimedia features inside its slim, curvy frame.
By curvy, we're talking about a pronounced concave-curve at the rear of the phone that gives it a decidedly elegant feel, apart from making the body look slimmer (8.7mm around the middle) than it actually is. Frankly, we're loving the design -- it's a nice break from the barely identifiable form factors many of today's smartphones come with.
Details of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc include a 4.2-inch capacitive touchscreen (854 x 480 resolution), an 8.1 megapixel camera module (with 720p video recording), aGPS, WiFi, 3G with HSPA, Bluetooth, DLNA, an FM tuner and microSD card expansion (up to 32GB). Action is controlled by a 1GHz Qualcomm CPU, housed inside the 125 x 63 x 8.7 mm frame. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, the latest iteration of Google's mobile platform.
The camera sounds sweet -- a wide maximum aperture of 2.4, paired with the Exmor R sensor, which is the same setup included in some of Sony's dedicated digicams. They're also making a big deal of the Mobile BRAVIA Engine that come with the handset, which we're guessing is a software layer for enhancing multimedia viewing on the phone's display.
If you're looking for an Android smartphone with some serious photography talents, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc might just be what you've been waiting for. It will launch across different markets during the first quarter in two colors: midnight blue and misty silver. No word on pricing.
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