Introduction
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc is back for a second round (not counting the Lorem Ipsum bit) and this time it will stay a while longer. The company's nw flagship did great in our preview and we would gladly have more of it.
The statement just could not have been stronger and clearer. The new BRAVIA screen and the impressively slim and fit body are exactly the way to treat a flagship. Android Gingerbread too is as good as it gets in the smartphone world these days.
Just months ago that combination would have equaled a license to kill - which the Arc would have used without second thoughts. But the completion is insanely instense today and no one is given a second to think.
It takes more than a few outstanding features these days, and they would better be backed by solid performance across the board. Omissions are not easily forgiven so the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc better stay focused.
Key Features
Main Disadvantages
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However, in-house competition is by far not the XPERIA Arc's biggest problem. Competitors have movd so much forward over the past year or so that the question really is whether Sony Ericsson have managed to keep the pace.
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LG and Samsung have already gone dual-core and got Full HD video recording, while Sony Ericsson -- and HTC -- are so far choosing to focus their efforts elsewhere. This review should help us answer - - among other things -- the question of who made the right call and who will have to play catch up.
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc is back for a second round (not counting the Lorem Ipsum bit) and this time it will stay a while longer. The company's nw flagship did great in our preview and we would gladly have more of it.
Just months ago that combination would have equaled a license to kill - which the Arc would have used without second thoughts. But the completion is insanely instense today and no one is given a second to think.
It takes more than a few outstanding features these days, and they would better be backed by solid performance across the board. Omissions are not easily forgiven so the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc better stay focused.
- Quad-band GSM /GPRS/EDGE support
- 3G with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
- 4.2" 16M-color capacitive LED-backlit LCD touchscreen of FWVGA resolution (480 x 854 pixel) with Sony Mobile BRAVIA engine
- Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread
- 1 GHz Scorpion CPU, Anreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 chipset
- 512 MB RAM
- 8 MP autofocus camera with LED flash and geotagging
- 720p video recording @ 30fbs with continuous autofocus
- Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA
- GPS with A-GPS
- microSD slot up to 32GB (8GB card included)
- Accelerometer and proximity sensor
- Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1
- Voice dialing
- Adobe Flash 10.2 support
- microHDMI port
- Ultra slim (8.7mm at its thinnest point)
- Display has poor viewing angles
- No front-facing camera
- Main competitors have dual-core CPUs and better GPUs
- No smart dialing
- microSD card slot is not hot-swappable
- Camera key is not particularly comfortable
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