The Sony Xperia acro S (known as the Sony Xperia acro HD in Japan) is a dust- and water-resistant
Android smartphone
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produced and developed by
Sony Mobile Communications
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.
Hardware
The phone has a
capacitive touchscreen display that measures 4.3 inches with a resolution of 1280 x 720 at 342
ppi with Sony's Mobile
BRAVIA
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Engine reality display. It supports multitouch and is capable of displaying 16,777,216 colours. The camera has 12
megapixels
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with autofocus and also
Exmor R
Exmor is the name of a technology Sony implemented on some of their CMOS image sensors. It performs on-chip analog/digital signal conversion and two-step noise reduction in parallel on each column of the CMOS sensor.
Exmor RS is the world ...
for low-light capturing. It is capable of recording video at 1080p with continuous autofocus, video stabilizer and the phone also features a front-facing camera with 1.3 megapixels capable of recording video at 720p. The device features a 1.5 GHz dual-core
Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with 1GB
RAM
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, 16 GB of internal memory, which also supports 32 GB external memory with NFC (
Near Field Communication
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) enabled which can be used with Xperia SmartTags, or for low-value financial transactions, as NFC becomes more widespread in use, with the appropriate applications from
Google Play
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. The device also features a micro USB connector with USB on the Go support and a HDMI port for viewing photos and videos on a TV screen. As a dust- and water-resistant device, it is equipped with a scratch-resistant and shatterproof glass and with a dust- and water-resistant rating of
IP57.
The Acro S has a widely known problem of turning off and on at random.
Software
The phone was released with
Android 4.0 ''Ice Cream Sandwich'' and is Facebook integrated with the Timescape UI skin added on top of Android. The browser supports HTML, HTML5, XHTML and CSS 3. The phone is also integrated with stereo FM radio with RDS,
which allows users to play PlayStation Suite games, and is connected to the Sony Entertainment Network, allowing users to access Music & Video Unlimited. The device has WiFi and WiFi hotspot functionality with 4.0 Bluetooth connectivity and is also DLNA certified. Sony has made Android 4.1.2 ''Jelly Bean'' firmware available for users to download via Sony PC Companion.
See also
*
Xperia S
*
Xperia acro
References
External links
SonyMobile – acro SSony Xperia SP & L
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Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2012
acro S