Xperia SL

Product Description

Colors: Grey, Black, White, Pink

From the Manufacturer:

Experience everything in HD

A super fast experience

Don’t like waiting? The Xperia SL is powered by a super fast dual core 1.7 GHz processor. Enjoy Face Unlock – wave goodbye to passwords and use your face to unlock your phone. You can also easily keep track of your data consumption and set limits or warning levels.

12 megapixel camera

With the 12 megapixel fast capture camera, you’ll never miss another shot again. It goes from sleep to snap in just over a second. Low light? No worries. The Exmor R™ for Mobile camera sensor lightens up any gloomy day. Make the most of your pictures – you’ll love Xperia SL’s photo effects found in Sony’s Album application.

Shoot HD video

First day of the summer. Last day at the beach. Memories may fade, but the Sony Xperia SL’s camera keeps them bright, recording everything in full HD video. And to remember where it all took place, geo-tag your videos and photos so they’ll be arranged by location in Sony’s Album application.

Razor sharp HD display

View everything in razor sharp clarity on the stunning, 4.3” Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA® Engine. The Xperia SL HD screen has the highest PPI – pixels per inch – of any Sony smartphone.

Easy connectivity and sharing

Great song. Move your music wirelessly with One-touch connectivity to NFC-ready headphones and speakers. And to view your pictures on a big screen, just swipe the display and you’re ready to enjoy it all on your tablet, TV or laptop via DLNA. Or simply plug your smartphone into your HDTV’s HDMI port to mirror everything on your smartphone screen to your TV.

Key Features

• Google Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
• 4.3-inch Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine
• 1080p HD video recording
• Fast capture with 12 MP camera
• 1.7 GHz dual core processor
• xLOUD and 3-D surround sound
• HDMI, Wi-Fi and DLNA

Vital Statistics

The Xperia SL weighs 5.1 ounces and measures 5.0 x 2.5 x 0.4 inches.

Android Ice Cream Sandwich Operating System

The Sony Xperia SL runs the Android 4.0 operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing while improving on the best Android features: easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable home screens, resizable widgets, and more.

The new Ice Cream Sandwich interface features an onscreen navigation bar that replaces the hardware buttons for Back, Home, and Menu found with older Android-powered phones. And with Google+ integration, you can video chat with groups of up to 9 friends as well as easily upload and share photos and videos. Other features include:

You can now unlock your phone with just your face using the Face Unlock option. It takes advantage of the front-facing camera and state-of-the-art facial recognition technology to register a face during setup and then to recognize it again when unlocking the device. Just hold your phone in front of your face to unlock (or use a backup PIN).

And the lock screen now lets you do more without unlocking. From the slide lock screen, you can jump directly to the camera for a picture or pull down the notifications window to check for messages. When listening to music, you can even manage music tracks and see album art.

Quickly access related apps right from the home screen by organizing apps and shortcuts into folders--just drag one app onto another to create a folder.

Multitasking is even easier and more visual in Android 4.0. The Recent Apps button lets you jump instantly from one task to another using the list in the System Bar. The list pops up to show thumbnail images of apps used recently--tapping a thumbnail switches to the app.

The new voice engine in Android 4.0 lets you dictate the text you want, for as long as you want, using the language you want. You can speak continuously for a prolonged time, even pausing for intervals if needed, and dictate punctuation to create correct sentences. As the voice input engine enters text, it underlines possible dictation errors in gray. After dictating, you can tap the underlined words to quickly replace them from a list of suggestions.

Unlocked Phone

This phone is not locked to any specific carrier, and is sold as an unlocked smartphone. It can be used with a GSM network service provider. It does not come with a SIM card, and it requires that you provide a SIM card from your selected service provider.

This phone is compatible with cellular networks that support GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSPA Bands 1/2/5/8. In areas not served by a 3G data network, you'll continue to receive 2G data service (depending on network compatibility).

Note that the downloading of maps, games, music and videos and uploading of images and videos involves transferring large amounts of data. Your service provider may charge for the data transmission, and the availability of particular services and features may vary by carrier.

This phone comes with a standard 1-yr manufacturer's warranty for the U.S. included with original purchase.