The Sony Xperia miro is a mid-range

Android Android may refer to: Science and technology * Android (robot), a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to imitate a human * Android (operating system), Google's mobile operating system ** Bugdroid, a Google mascot sometimes referred to ...

smartphone A smartphone is a portable computer device that combines mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, whic ...

manufactured and developed by

Sony Mobile Communications 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 ...

. The device was released globally during the third quarter of 2012. The device is available in colours black, pink, white with silver and white with gold. However, not all colours are available in all countries.

Availability

The phone was officially announced with the Sony Xperia tipo by

on 13 June 2012 and is using the concept of a fun social and entertainment phone to promote the device. The device is slated for a global release during the third quarter of 2012. The Xperia miro was released on 19 September 2012.

Hardware

The device has a TFT scratch resistant

capacitive touchscreen A touchscreen or touch screen is the assembly of both an input ('touch panel') and output ('display') device. The touch panel is normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an information processing system. The display is often ...

display which measures 3.5 inches with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels at 165 ppi. It supports multitouch and is capable of displaying 16,777,216 colours with a layer of anti reflective coating. The Sony Xperia miro has a 5

megapixel In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest point in an all points addressable display device. In most digital display devices, pixels are the smal ...

camera featuring an LED flash, auto focus, panorama mode, red-eye reduction, and more. It is capable of recording video at 30 frames per second with continuous auto focus, video light and with video stabilization. The phone also features a front facing camera with VGA resolution. The phone charges it's 1500mAh Li-Ion battery with a micro USB port. The phone has an internal memory of 4 GB, which has only 2.2 GB available to the user, a

Qualcomm Qualcomm () is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It creates semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology. It owns patents critical to the 5G, 4 ...

MSM7225A 800 MHz Cortex A-5 processor with 512 MB of RAM and an external

microSD Secure Digital, officially abbreviated as SD, is a proprietary non-volatile flash memory card format developed by the SD Association (SDA) for use in portable devices. The standard was introduced in August 1999 by joint efforts between SanDis ...

/HC card slot that supports up to 32GB.

Software

The device is released with the latest Sony

4.0

Ice Cream Sandwich An ice cream sandwich is a frozen dessert consisting of ice cream between two biscuits, skins, wafers, or cookies. The ingredients are different around the world, with Ireland and Israel using wafers, and North America using chocolate cookies. ...

operating system with Facebook and Timescape with Twitter integrated in the software. It also has an on-screen QWERTY keyboard with a browser that supports HTML5 and

Adobe Flash Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a multimedia Computing platform, software platform used for production of Flash animation, animations, rich web applications, application software, desktop applications, mobile apps, mo ...

and also an integrated stereo FM radio with RDS. As an entertainment phone by Sony, the Xperia miro is capable of 3D and motion gaming and is connected to the

Sony Entertainment Network Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) was a digital media delivery service operated by Sony. SEN provided access to services, including PlayStation Network for games, Video Unlimited for film and television, Music Unlimited for music, and PlayMemo ...

, allowing users to access Music & Video Unlimited. It also features xLOUD Experience, an audio filter technology from Sony, with TrackID music recognition, Walkman music app and also a manual equalizer. The phone supports WiFi and WiFi hotspot, with

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs). In the most widely used mode, transmission power is limi ...

2.1 and is

DLNA Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA; originally named Digital Home Working Group, DHWG) was founded by a group of PC and consumer electronics companies in June 2003 (with Intel in the lead role) to develop and promote a set of interoperability ...

certified. It has no Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine enabled by default, but it could be enabled with some tweaks which require root access from the device's forum thread in XDA Developers On 17 December 2012, Sony confirmed that the Xperia Miro would not be updated beyond Ice Cream Sandwich due to hardware incompatibility. ROM Developers of community forum XDA Developers and CyanogenMod Free Xperia Developers later challenged this statement by releasing stable rom versions of

Jellybean Jelly beans are small bean shaped sugar candies with soft candy shells and thick gel interiors (see gelatin and jelly). The confection is primarily made of sugar and sold in a wide variety of colors and flavors. History It has been claimed ...

4.1.2 for the device which could be flashed to the device by rooting the device which comes at a cost of voiding the device's warranty. On 23 December 2013 TamsuiCM11 CyanogenMod developer team on XDA Developers forum released beta rom version of CM11 Kitkat 4.4.2 but it has some bugs, like camera. the bugs couldn't be solved until now.

References

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sony Xperia miro Android (operating system) devices Mobile phones introduced in 2012 miro