Along with Sony Xperia arc s, the company has also revealed another Smartphone named as the Sony Xperia go which is also called as Xperia advance as this handset will be showcased in the US market. The device meets the IP67 rating thereby making it a real survivor. This handset is facilitated with the protection against water drops as it is a waterproof one as well as dust proof. This Xperia series Smartphone is available in black, white and yellow colors. This handset is featured with 3.5” Reality display, 1 GHz dual-core processor and lots more others. You can have the entire details related to the features and availability of the device discussed below.
The Sony Xperia go or Xperia advance Smartphone is enabled with a 3.5 inches (~165 ppi pixel density) Touch-sensitive controls LED-backlit LCD, capacitive touchscreen reality display that resembles a display resolution of 320 x 480 pixels and 16M colors. The display has Multitouch features up to 4 fingers, protection of Scratch-resistant glass, implemented with Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine and is IP67 certified – dust and water proof (up to 1m for 30 mins). This handset has 512MB of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage and up to 4 GB are user-accessible.
This Smartphone runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread Operating System but later on it is to be upgradeable to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The device is equipped with a 5 MP primary shooter having 2592 x 1944 pixels of camera resolution and the other camera details are like autofocus, LED flash, etc. This camera which has been equipped in the device also features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, 3D sweep panorama, Video at 720p@30fps, continuous autofocus, video light and video stabilizer but the secondary camera is absent.
It is powered by NovaThor U8500 Chipset as well as carries CPU Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9 Processor along with GPU Mali-400 and sensors as accelerometer, proximity, compass. This handset is provided with a microSD card up to 32 GB and is offered with GPRS up to 107 kbps, EDGE up to 296 kbps, Speed of HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP, EDR, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go support.
Additionally, it is facilitated with many of the other advanced features like HTML5 Browser, Adobe Flash, Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS, GPS with A-GPS support, Java via Java MIDP emulator and many more. The Xperia go is empowered with standard Li-Ion 1305 mAh battery that ensures a stand-by of up to 520 h (2G) / up to 460 h (3G) & talk time of up to 6 h 30 min (2G) / up to 5 h 30 min (3G). It measures 111 x 60.3 x 9.8 mm and the weight is 110 g. The Xperia go is set to be available worldwide starting from Q3 2012.