Available
now 13th June 2012
The Sony Xperia miro is a step up from the newly announced Xperia
tipo, and is an Android 4.0 device aimed at social networking fans
who are looking for a relatively low cost smartphone with a reasonable
feature set.
On the front of the Xperia miro is a 3.5" 320 x 480 pixel
scratch-resistant display which is small by Android standards, but
still the same size as the iPhone 4S (although a much lower resolution).
On the back is a 5 megapixel camera capable of VGA resolution video
capture, and there's also a secondary camera on the front for video
calling.
Inside
is an 800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with 512MB of RAM (the
same as on the Xperia tipo). Internal memory is 4GB of flash (with
2.2GB available to the user) and there is also a microSD slot.
Shipping with Android 4.0 out of the box, the Xperia miro does
everything that every other Android phone will do and includes WiFi,
3.5G support, Bluetooth and GPS. There are some Sony multimedia
enhancements too, and one key selling point is something Sony called
"Deep Facebook Integration".
The Xperia miro weighs 110 grams, measures 113 x 59 x 9.9mm and
the 1500 mAh battery is quoted as giving up to 6 hours talktime
and 22 days standby time. Available colour schemes are black, black/pink,
white and white/gold.
Whether or not the Xperia miro makes an attractive proposition
to customers will depend on price, and Sony aren't saying how much
this will cost. Our guess is that it should retail for less than
€200 when it hits the markets during Q3 2012.
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