Xperia ion white paper confirms MSM8260 chipset, 1900mAh battery and microSD card slot

by XB on January 9, 2012

in News,Xperia ion

Sony has released the white paper for the recently announced Xperia ion (LT28at). It confirms several details about the phone including that it will run the Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8260 chipset which features a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and Adreno 220 GPU.

The handset will come with 1GB RAM, 1GB of internal phone storage and 16GB of eMMc flash memory. Crucially, the white paper confirms that the handset will come with microSD memory card support. Rumours suggested that this was believed to be absent in some of the new Xperia handsets such as the Xperia S (Nozomi).

A 1900mAh embedded battery will provide juice to the 4.55-inch 720p display, providing up to 10 hours of GSM talk time, 3 hours of video or 12 hours of music. The Xperia ion will also have a number of sensors on board including gyroscope and magnetometer.

The Xperia ion utilises the Qualcomm MDM9200 modem chipset. This is the industry’s first 3G/LTE single-chip modem. It will support a number of network frequencies including UMTS [HSPA+ 850 (Band V), 1900 (Band II), 2100 (Band I)], GSM [EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900] and LTE [Band IV and Band XVII].


Xperia ion white paper.

Sony Ericsson LT28at pops up in benchmark; suggests 1.5GHz dual-core Xperia heading to AT&T

by XB on December 2, 2011

in News,Rumours

The Sony Ericsson LT28at model has appeared in the AnTuTu benchmark. This is interesting for several reasons. Firstly the ‘at‘ part in the model number suggests that this variant will run on the AT&T network in the United States. More than likely it will be compatible with AT&T’s 21MBps HSPA+ 4G network, much like the Xperia PLAY 4G (R800at).


Secondly, the performance numbers from the benchmark put it on a near identical level to the Sony Ericsson LT26i (Nozomi), which also appeared on AnTuTu recently. This probably means that it will come with a dual-core 1.5GHz chipset like Nozomi and could even be the US version of that handset. However, if that were the case we imagine Sony Ericsoon would have used model number LT26at.

Even more confusing is that that the Sony Ericsson LT28i delivered a much, much lower score on the same benchmark (2443 versus 6240 for the LT28at). If the LT28at and LT28i are very different phones (as the benchies suggest), why are the model numbers so similar? If you look at the Xperia PLAY it has a consistent model number (R800i, R800a, R800x, R800at) across variants. We’re still scratching our head on this discrepancy, but we hope it all becomes clear soon.

Via AnTuTu & Xperiablog