Sony
Mobile announced yet another Xperia smartphone, the Xperia solo featuring the
Floating Touch navigation technology allows you to browse the web without
actually touching the screen. The Floating Touch allows uers to navigate the
web by hovering their finger above the screen so it acts like a moving curser,
without actually having to touch the screen.
The Xperia sola is powered by a
dual-core 1GHz STE U8500 processor. It sports a 3.7-inch 854×480 Reality
Display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine, a 5 Megapixel camera with auto focus and
flash, xLOUD and 3D surround sound audio technology, 8GB internal memory and a
microSD card slot. The phone is capable of 720p HD video recording and includes
2D and 3D Sweep Panorama shooting mode. In addition to Bluetooth and WiFi, the
sola also comes with DLNA certified and NFC enabled. Using the included two
Xperia NFC SmartTags, users can launch a re-configured profile in the
smartphone easily with a simple tap.
Sony Xperia sola will come with
Android 2.3 with future upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich during Summer
2012. It will be available in black, white and red, and will be released in
China as Sony Xperia MT27i.