Xperia family getting bigger and smaller

Submitted by Android UK on May 5, 2011 – 6:30 pm 

 

Sony is without doubt pushing ahead of the pack with the great line up of handsets.  The Sony Pro is for business, the Sony Play is for gamings and the Arc is the flaship for Premier market. The only thing that has be left behind is the popular X10 mini line- good news is that this soon to change.

 

With a lot of the major handset manufacturers producing larger and larger screens- Sony has answered the consumer need for the smaller screen by releasing an update

 

The original Sony Ericsson x10 Mini and Mini pro, have been a massive success and this looks set to be beaten by the next set of xperia minis.

 

Xperia Mini HD

The Xperia mini HD is the Smallest HD smart phone on the market today. Like its the Sony Xperia Play and Arc big brothers it comes with the Sony Bravia Engine – with reality display which enhances the the quality, colour and contrast of pictures and video.  Unlike its previous incarnation, this is equipped with the latest Android Gingerbread 2.3 release and a 1GHZ SnapDragon Processor. The Battery has also been suped up to the tune of 30% whilst maintaining its original superbly small form factor.

This update will also be rolling out a new Xperia HD mini pro- with its slide out QWERTY keyboard.

In  terms of Software enhancements, Sony have expanded their mini custom ui, by turning the the 4 corner icons into their own retractable drawers which can contain up to 4 individual icons.

The big show piece for this release is that Sony will be launching even better Facebook integration into their custom UI.

Partnered closely with facebook, Sony are rolling out Facebook inside Xperia which is coming out to all Sony handsets by Q2 and will be released to Sony Arc and Play handsets via an OTA update.

The aim of the update is to further embed Facebook into the phone specifically into its media gallery, music player, calendar, and contacts.

In the Music section users can like music and then can add like function in player.  Then go straight to the sony Track Id page which lets them play, buy or watch music videos direct from the Track ID webpage.



There is a media discovery page in the app which lets you see what your friends like which you can comment on.  There is also a media discovery widget which will give easy access to see whats current.

The Gingerbread standard gallery  has also been enhanced to allow users to find all content within the gallery.  Using gallery and HDMI output you  can do a slide show of your favourite photos on your telly, or even browse your tagged photos or photos uploaded to facebook.  You can even “like” and add comments to it.

The enhanced integration with the Sony Contacts app is also much improved.  Not only do you get your contact information you can see their status updates, photos tagged and even browse your friend’s interests.

Finally the calendar will now automatically sync birthdays and events direct to your phones.

Sony is now the most popular Android platform on facebook, with the most number of fans.  By giving its users good priced handsets which offer better integration with facebook, will be a first for android and a first for any other platform accross the mobile market.

Link to Sony Ericsson’s main page with Xperia HD Mini Pro info is here
Link to Sony Ericsson’s main page with Xperia HD Mini info is here