Sony Xperia J features review: A gorgeous remake of Xperia Arc

The long anticipated Sony Xperia J finally arrived. Being mentioned mostly as a trimmed-down version of the Bond phone or a remake of the Xperia Arc, this new smartphone has its own power to attract people’s eyes. As the most concerned point, the smartphone offers a large 4.0" 16M-color TFT capacitive touchscreen with up to FWVGA resolution (480 x 854 pixels) at 245ppi, which makes it the No. 1 choice for people to watch HD movies on Xperia J. As for other specs, the Sony Xperia J also doesn't let people down. You can check the below detailed features to know more about Sony Xperia J:

Key features

* Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and dual-band UMTS support

* 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA

* 4.0" 16M-color TFT capacitive touchscreen of FWVGA resolution (480 x 854 pixels) at around 245 ppi

* Android OS v4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich

* 1 GHz Cortex-A5 CPU, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227A chipset

* 512 MB of RAM

* 4GB of inbuilt storage (2GB user available)

* microSD slot (32GB supported)

* 5 MP autofocus camera, single LED flashlight, geotagging, touch focus

* VGA video @ 30fps

* Secondary VGA front-facing camera

* Wi-Fi b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot

* GPS with A-GPS

* Accelerometer and proximity sensor

* Standard 3.5 mm audio jack

* Stereo FM radio with RDS

* microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1

* 1750 mAh Li-Ion battery

Main disadvantages

* Noticeable lag

* Non-hot-swappable microSD slot

* Image quality a bit of a letdown

* No hardware shutter key

* No DivX/XviD support

* Feeble loudspeaker

4.0” Sony Xperia J pictures leaked with a probable August shipment

News about Sony cell phones continues, not only about the release or shipping of new phones, but also the leaked pictures of many mysterious cell phones. Besides the much concerned Sony flagship smartphone LT30, Sony ST36i again got its leaked pictures with an official name Sony Xperia J online. And according to the leaked news online about Xperia J, it seems that the official release date of Xperia J is not far.

Viewing from the leaked pictures from micro blogs, Sony Xperia J has very simple appearance, straightforward phone body with physical buttons on the bottom. The Xperia J is not in the NXT series, but a product for mid and low-end market users.

Even so, Sony Xperia J has very excellent hardware configuration. It features a 4.0 inches touchscreen display with FWVGA (854×480 pixels with 16:9 aspect ratio) resolution, which makes it quite suitable to watch HD videos on Xperia J. It also provides 512MB RAM and 8GB ROM storage. Other features of Sony Xperia J include: HSDPA/WCDMA network connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS navigation, Bluetooth and memory card expansion. Meanwhile, Xperia J also features 1GHZ Qualcomm MSM7627A processor. The details about the built-in camera is still to be confirmed.

As for the official release date, as reported the Sony Xperia J ST26i would be ODM product and released this summer. If the Sony Xperia J is the new phone for Olive I, the release date is most probably to be July at308. But if it’s for Lotus, the release date then should be this August at277.

The below are some more leaked pictures of Sony Xperia J, just take a look:

The below table shows the detailed release date: