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Today we announced the new Xperia™ S, our new flagship smartphone and the first of the new Xperia NXT series. This stunning Android™ smartphone boasts a 1.5 GHz dual core, 1 GB RAM, 4.3-inch 720×1280 resolution reality display, 12 MP camera with Exmor R™ mobile, NFC, and much more! Read more after the jump.
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The Xperia™ S is the first in our new global line of Xperia™ phones called the Xperia NXT series. Launching on the Android™ 2.3 (Gingerbread) platform, Xperia™ S will be upgraded to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) during the second quarter of 2012. It has a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8260 dual core processor for stunning, fluid graphics, plus long battery life. You’ll also find the Adreno™ 220 GPU for an enhanced level of 3D graphics performance, and allows for support of a number of APIs, including OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenVG 1.1. For more information on OpenGL, see our previous OpenGL blog post.
And as Sony’s flagship smartphone, Xperia™ S makes for easy connectivity to the Sony Entertainment Network and across multiple screens, whether it’s TV, smartphone, laptop or tablet. You can watch content from Video Unlimited, listen to songs, personal playlists and radio stations from Music Unlimited, and access the PlayStation® Network for PlayStation-certified content to guarantee high-quality smartphone gaming and access to the PlayStation Store.
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The Xperia™ S is also NFC enabled, allowing you to share content with other NFC devices and enjoy an increasing number of NFC applications and services, as well as Xperia™ SmartTags. Xperia™ SmartTags are a new kind of accessory that can launch a number of pre-configured profiles in the phone. It’s also GLONASS capable, allowing the device greater positioning accuracy when using navigation-related applications, and ANT+ enabled, which is an interoperability function that enables the collection, automatic transfer and tracking of sensor data for monitoring of personal wellness. For more in depth information on NFC, GLONASS and ANT+, stay tuned to Developer World going forward! For our current information on ANT+, check out these ANT+ blog posts.
Xperia™ S will be available to consumers globally from the first quarter 2012, and will come in 2 colors – black and white.
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By Siddhu Varma
10th January 2012.
06:09
xperia s ….just super ,smart mobile …now with1.5 gmz..and 1gb ram…what about NFC???????????????
Hot debate. What do you think? 
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By Joe Padre
20th January 2012.
01:36
Hi Siddhu, NFC is supported. You can check out the white paper for the full specs. http://developer.sonyericsson.com/wportal/devworld/downloads/download/xperiaswp1?cc=gb&lc=en
Thanks,
Joe from Developer World
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By Otem Power
10th January 2012.
08:21
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By Ilya Panasenko
10th January 2012.
10:43
Sony bought Ericsson’s party of Sony Ericsson in October
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By Aleksander Rus
10th January 2012.
11:18
Is there confirmation that this is a HSDPA Quad-Band phone? (850/900/1900/2100Mhz capable) and not 2 seperate models like previous phones?
White Paper & official website suggests its quad-band but there has been confusion on this for previous models before.
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By Joe Padre
25th January 2012.
22:24
Hi Alexander,
According to the Xperia S white paper, it is 850/900/1900/2100 capable. The white paper also states LT26i and no other model IDs.
Thanks and best regards,
Joe from Developer World
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By Anonymous
10th January 2012.
13:56
Maaan is this phone sexy hot and smart! Makes me sell my Arc 
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By Carlos Sanchez
10th January 2012.
20:29
100% agree :/ i´ll miss my ARC =(
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By Azwan Mustaffa
10th January 2012.
14:18
no external memory?
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By Cesar Suarez
10th January 2012.
19:20
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By Codrin Maleş
10th January 2012.
22:03
Great phone, nice design and maybe a success, but please do your self a favor and name the phone properly, write his name on the casing so when people ask me what phone i have to be possible for me to prove it is a Xperia S, no offense but Xperia is a family of products not a stand alone product.
Thank you.
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From Sony unveils Xperia NFC phones and tags • NFC World
11th January 2012.
01:53
[...] Xperia S is the first of a new generation of NXT series smartphones and includes a 4.3-inch HD screen, 12MP [...]
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By Michael Schroeder
11th January 2012.
19:07
What makes me wondering a bit is: you give users a 720p display, a 12MP cam with Full HD camcorder but you don’t give ‘em a card-slot. Why is this? Of course 32GB of build-in memory are a lot, but especially on your high-end device you should think of all those geeks that always want to have all their music with them + a lot of videos, from self-taken cam vids to full movies. Plus all those 12MP photos taken with the Xperia S. And in this case 32GB are used up very quick. And cloud is not an answer to that.
For me personally 32GB are enough, but again I don’t see a reason to not give a high-end device a card-slot. Or at least a version with 64GB of memory integrated.
Nevertheless I’m really looking forward for getting a Xperia S into my own hands. Maybe this will be my 1st Android device ever as it is the most appealing Android smartphone right now. If Sony doesn’t blow it all up with a bad update support (like all the other manufacturers) they can have a big piece of the Android cake with devices like the Xperia S, I guess.
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By umedmal jain
12th January 2012.
07:46
You make great music & camera phones; but your after sales service in India is hopelessly inadequate. I have a W960i whose resistive touchscreen is almost unusable; for last over an year; &
inspite of my best efforts; I could not get a suitable replacement of the touchscreen from Sony Ericsson service centre in Kolkata, India. I have therefore vowed never to buy a sony Ericsson mobile phone again. Umedmal Jain
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