The Sony Ericsson

Xperia Xperia () is the brand name of smartphones and tablets from Sony. The name Xperia is derived from the word "experience", and was first used in the Xperia X1 tagline of "I Xperia the best". Sony Mobile was previously known globally as Sony E ...

ray (ST18i) is an Android

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from

Sony Ericsson Sony Mobile Communications Inc. ( ja, ソニーモバイルコミュニケーションズ株式会社) was a multinational telecommunications company founded on October 1, 2001, as a joint venture between Sony Group Corporation and Ericsson. I ...

. It was unveiled on 22 June 2011 in Singapore during

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2011. It was announced that the Xperia ray would be released globally in select countries from Q3 2011.

Specifications

Design

Sony Ericsson Xperia ray has a 3.3 inch display; there is a "Xperia" logo, a physical home button that can be illuminated with four different colors (white, red, green and blue), and two capacitive buttons (menu and back buttons) on the lower bezel of the display while there is a "Sony Ericsson" logo, a front-facing camera, an earpiece and sensors on the upper bezel on the display. The display is protected by a scratch-resistant glass. On the side frame, there is a microUSB port at the left, there is a volume rocker at the right, there is a headphone jack and a power button at the top, and there is a microphone hole and a groove to remove the back cover at the bottom.. The back cover is made of plastic, and includes a "Xperia" logo and the liquid energy logo of Ericsson. There is a rear camera, an LED flash and a loudspeaker at back, Sony Ericsson Xperia ray measures 111 x 53 x 9.4 mm and weighs 100 grams. It is available in Black, Gold, White and Pink.

Hardware

Sony Ericsson Xperia ray contains similar hardware specifications to other 2011 Xperia phones but in a considerably smaller package. As a result, the display has a higher

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compared to other 2011 Xperia phones. Sony Ericsson Xperia ray is powered by

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with 1 GHz Scorpion CPU and

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205 GPU. It has 512 MB

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and 300 MB internal storage expandable up to 32 GB through the

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card slot under the battery; the device comes with a 4 GB microSD card. The rear camera is a Exmor R backlit (BSI) CMOS sensor with a resolution of 8

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and capable of shooting in

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at 30

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. There is also a VGA front-facing camera. It has an LED flash for the camera. It has a 3.3 inch LCD Reality Display with Mobile

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Engine, 480x854 pixels (FWVGA) resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio and 297 ppi

. It has a 1500 mAh removable battery.

Software

Sony Ericsson Xperia ray comes with Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread but is upgradeable to Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).

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aftermarket custom firmwares are available. Sony began the process of updating the ray to Android 4.0.4 "Ice Cream Sandwich" in April 2012 via their PC Companion application, instead of by an OTA (Over the Air) update. The smartphone got an honourable mention in the 2012 Red Dot design awards 2012

References

External links

Sony Ericsson Xperia ray specifications

ST18i, ST18a white paper, June 2011

Xperia ray information at CyanogenMod
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