Sony Xperia™ go –Sneak Peak

The Sony Xperia go is a mid range Smartphone. The Xperia Go is IP Code IP67 certified with water and dust proof (up to 1 meter for 30 minutess) and has a 3.5-inch HVGA display with capacitive multi-touch support and uses Sony Mobile Bravia engine. It's equipped with a 5 mega pixel rear facing camera with autofocus and an LED flash which is capable of shootomg up to HD 720p videos and also capturing high-resolution stills. The Xperia go is powered by a STE NovaThor U8500 chipset with 1 GHz Dual-core processor and uses a Mali 400 GPU. Additionally, it comes with 8 GB of internal storage, (4 GB system reserved + 4 GB usable) and it can be further expandable up to 32 GB using micro-SD cards.

The Sony Xperia go will be launched in US under the name of Xperia Advance

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Specifications

This is a listing of Xperia go´s main features and functions

Camera and video

• 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and Auto focus
• 16x digital zoom
• HD video recording (720p)
• 3D Sweep Panorama
• Image capture, supported format: JPEG
• Video playback, supported formats: 3GPP, MP4, Matroska, AVI
• Video recording, supported formats: 3GPP, MP4
• Face detection and Smile detection
• Fast Capture

Connectivity and communication

• USB High speed 2.0 and Micro USB support
• WiFi and WiFi Hotspot functionality
• DLNA Certified
• Synchronisation via Exchange ActiveSync and Google Sync
• aGPS
• WebKit web browser with Pan & zoom
• Bluetooth technology
• Native USB tethering
• Noise Suppression
• Handwriting recognition
• Type & Send widget

Memory

• Internal phone storage: 8GB (up to 4GB user-accessible memory)
• RAM: 512 MB
• Flash memory: 8GB eMMC
• Expansion slot: microSD™, up to 32GB

Networks

• GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900
• UMTS HSPA 900, 2100 (Global except Americas)
• UMTS HSPA 850, 1900, 2100 (Americas)

Entertainment

• TrackID music recognition
• xLOUD Experience – audio filter technology from Sony
• FM Radio with RDS
• 3.5 mm audio jack for headphones
• Audio playback, supported formats: MP3, 3GPP, MP4, SMF, WAV, OTA, Ogg vorbis
• Audio recording, supported formats: 3GPP, MP4, AMR
• Motion gaming
• Timescape with Twitter integrated
• Facebook inside Xperia 2.0
• Sony Entertainment Network (selected markets only)
• Clear stereo and clear bass
• 3D surround sound
• SensMe™

Display

• 3.5”, 480x320 pixels 16,777,216 colour TFT
• Reality display with Mobile BRAVIA® Engine
• Scratch-resistant, anti-reflection coating on mineral glass
• Capacitive touchscreen with wet finger tracking and on-screen QWERTY keyboard
• Screenshot capturing
• Dust and water resistant (IP67) [2]

Pre-loaded applications

• Google Voice Search
• Google Talk
• Google Mail
• Google Maps with Street View and Latitude
• Micoach
• Walk Mate