We’ll be honest, we’re scratching our heads at the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray, just announced today. Never mind the fact that it sounds a bit too much like the Xperia Play PlayStation phone, it’s almost identical to the Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo – which by sheer coincidence has just arrived at Electricpig towers for review. Read on to see it. Is a new coat enough to make this one stand out?
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread installed, and Sony Ericsson’s new Facebook Inside Xperia integration that’s just hit the Xperia Arc. It’s a fair bit smaller, with a 3.3-inch touchscreen, but it still packs an 8.1 megapixel camera and the same sharp 854×480 resolution, and measures just 9.4mm thin. Sony’s Reality Display and Mobila Bravia engine also return, although the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray is missing its bigger brothers’ HDMI connection.
Sounds curious right? As far as we can tell, its smaller 3.3-inch screen makes it a replacement for last year’s fast-selling Xperia X8. It’s out in Q3 in black, white, gold and pink shades, and we’ll have more details on it ASAP.
Out Q3 2011 | £TBC | Sony Ericsson
