The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc Is Packed With Impressive Multimedia Attributes

Jan 27
08:38

2011

Chris Westley

Chris Westley

  • Share this article on Facebook
  • Share this article on Twitter
  • Share this article on Linkedin

Sony Ericsson is back with its latest instalment of the XPERIA series of Smartphones. The XPERIA X12 Arc is its most advanced yet, boasting a selection of key features which are sure to makes this a popular device upon its upcoming release. Its key features include an eight mega pixel digital camera, advanced touch screen as well as Wi-Fi Internet browsing and a whole host of multimedia features.

mediaimage

The handset measures 125x 63x just 8.7 mm,The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc Is Packed With Impressive Multimedia Attributes  Articles making it amongst the slimmest handsets available.  Despite its slimline profile and light weight of just 117 g, it is absolutely packed with features.  Its 4.2 inch LED-backlit LCD capacitive touchscreen is able to display up to 16M individual colours within its pixel setup of 480x 854 pixels.  This combined with the Sony Mobile BRAVIA engine ensures top notch display quality with perfect rendering of colours and extremely wide viewing angles.  The screen is made of scratch-resistant materials and comes with both proximity and accelerometer sensors and supports multi-touch input, allowing features such as pinch to zoom.

 

Both vibration and ringing are used to alert users to incoming calls, messages and other notifications.  Users also have the luxury of assigning their own MP3 and WAV music files as ring tones, meaning they can hear the song of their choice whenever the phone rings.  Handsfree conversations are carried out with ease thanks to both the built in speakerphone system and a 3.5 millimetre headset jack.

 

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc comes with 512 MB RAM as standard; however this is supplemented with a microSD card slot with a pre-installed 8 GB memory card.  This means users are able to store numerous music tracks, video clips or any other file types.  Should further storage be required, this can be replaced with a memory card of up to 32 GB meaning users can easily store their entire digital music collection within their phone, so they can keep it on them at all times and listen to music via the headset jack, using the versatile internal media player which supports numerous music as well as video file formats.

 

A fantastic Internet browsing experience is assured with the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc.  Both 3G and Wi-Fi provide speedy and reliable connections.  In areas with 3G coverage, an HSDPA connection takes care of Internet access with download speeds of up to 7.2 mega bytes per second.  A faster and more reliable connection can be enjoyed whenever users have the appropriate access to local wireless networks, be they in domestic, commercial or public locations.                 

 

One of the major selling points of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc is the eight mega pixel digital camera.  This comes with auto-focus, touch-focus, image stabilisation and face & smile detection.  These features combined with its pixel resolution of 3264x 2448 pixels mean that the resulting images are of superb quality, but also easy to take at the same time.  Users can also use this camera to shoot high definition video in 720p quality.

 

Android 2.3 Gingerbread is the operating system of choice.  In conjunction with a powerful 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a lightning fast user experience is guaranteed.  This combination also makes for a great platform for customisation and expansion, handling even demanding applications with ease.  Users can access the Android Market where they can browse thousands of apps which can be downloaded, infinitely increasing the handsets versatility in terms of both entertainment and productivity.

 

Whatever you are looking for in a new Smartphone, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc is definitely worth a closer look, as it ticks all the boxes in terms of both specifications and style.