Sony Xperia Ion

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ion, or should Sony Xperia Ion, is a 4.6 inch screen touting Android smartphone coming to AT & T in the U.S..
Launched at CES in Las Vegas, Pocket-cloth on hand at the event to play with smartphone Sony's new high-end American to see if it should be on your shopping list.
Cutting to chase, the new handset will offer 4.6-inch screen with 1280 x 720 HD resolution, so it is up there with Galaxy Nexus just launched, and packs 12-megapixel camera capable of capturing a whopping R Exmor Full HD video. A front-facing camera will offer you good old 720p as well.

In the hands of a powerful phone design with a well built handset. The screen is up to ordinary company standards such as those found on Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and the quality of the camera, if the on-screen results are anything to go by, is amazing. Unfortunately we were unable to send any pictures from our own camera (with terrible lighting on the show probably will not tell us much anyway).
Internal you'll find a respectable 1.5GHz dual core processor and 16GB of internal memory. This is an LTE phone, so they are on AT & T will enjoy lightening fast speed of data moving. Pocket-lint loading in the browser must be fast, even on a tight network of the LVCC.
It also PlayStation Certified, so you'll get access to the games that Sony is pushing out to expand its line-up of PlayStation devices are happy and you'll get the beauty of the DNLA and HDMI as well - something we have to test with the optional dock. There is also the NFC on the board.

Plug the phone into the dock and the dock into your TV and you'll be able to really start to enjoy those 1080p movies at 46 inches, let alone 4.6 inches.
Like the Sony Xperia S, the Xperia Ion surprisingly still runs Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread, however Sony has confirmed that it will be getting an Ice Cream Sandwich update in good time. It seems to be a trait amongst phone and tablet makers at the moment unless you are Samsung with the Galaxy Nexus.
While the UK have the Xperia S, this larger screen device will sit nicely into the AT&T portfolio being powerful enough and spec heavy enough to last certainly longer that previous Sony Ericsson handsets have managed in the past.
No word on whether a non-LTE version will be heading to the UK. We will keep you posted.


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