Sony announces Xperia acro HD and Xperia NX Android smartphones

Sony has bought Ericsson's half in the 50/50 joint-venture company Sony Ericsson. EU and other authorities will have to approve the transaction before things are finalized. This has caused some confusion about the names used on the devices announced at CES this week. The future full name of the company will be Sony Mobile Communication. The new devices was announced by Sony and all of them got the Sony name printed on them. The Japanese press releases still uses the Sony Ericsson name on the new smartphones. As you can see on the images in this article, some models are still named Sony Ericsson. We will refer to the Japanese company as Sony in this article and also drop the Ericsson part from the model names.

Sony announced four Android smartphones during CES. The Sony Xperia S with a 4.3 inch display and the Xperia Ion for the U.S operator AT&T with a 4.6 inch display. We have introduced these smartphones before here and here. The two devices covered in this article are probably designed by the same design team as it is close to impossible to distinguish them from each other. 

Japan has always got its own range of Sony Ericsson models. These are mainly for the two larger operators NTT Docomo and AU. Have you ever heard of Urbano Mond clamshell model or the S005 maybe? Most likely not. Two more will soon be available to Japanese customers only.

Both Xperia Acro HD and Xperia NX are water-resistant. The Xperia Acro HD also has a IPX57 rating. The IPX-5 rating means that the Xperia Acro HD will resist water intrusion from a water jet stream for 3 minutes. The number 7 stands for protection against water when immersed down 1 meter in water for 30 minutes. It is the first Xperia model with IPX-rating.

From looking at the specifications alone, it seems like the Xperia Acro HD is the most powerful of the two smartphones. The Xperia NX for Japan and Xperia S for the rest of the world seems to have close to identical specifications

Shared specifications between the Xperia acro HD and the Xperia NX are:

• 4.3 inch Reality display, 16.7 million colours
• 720 x 1280 HD resolution
• Android 2.3 Gingerbread
• 1.5 GHz dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 processor. MSM8260 chipse
• Adreno 220 GPU
• Bluetooth 2.1
• HSPA 14/5.7Mbps
• 1 GB RAM. Expandable with microSDHC card
• 12 megapixel camera, Exmor R CMOS sensor. Camera start-up time is 1.5 second from standby mode
• 1080p HD video capture
• 1.3 megapixel front camera
• HDMI out for Full HD
• ANT+
• aGPS - GLONASS capable for better position accuracy

Sony Xperia NX

• Weight: 144 gram
• Size: 128 x 64 x 10.6 mm
• Colours: Black and white
• Available in February 2012
• Talk time: 390 minutes
• Standby time: 400 hours

 

Sony Xperia Acro HD

Sony Xperia Acro HD colour variants 

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