Sony-Ericsson Xperia Arc gets revealed early

Sony Ericsson seems to be fond of using OUTDATED SOCs. The Qualcomm chip listed is the same one used for Sony Xperia X10 which at that time was already a full year outdated. Can they not use the more recent Qualcomm MSM8255 which offers performance closer to Samsungs Hummingbird processor?

I bet they are planning to price this as high as significantly more beefed up phones with better and more current hardware / software and rely on hype like they always do with their previous “flagship” phones.

A new generation for Xperia. @Lucien I agree with that, they should use the latest CPU available because it’s their latest unit.

DAMN! at last SE again packs some heat, hopefully most of their xperia phones will be updated to 2.2, then that would pretty much put them back to competing with the top.

I got confused too. According to this video from google, Honeycomb is built entirely for tablets
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/google-shows-off-android-3-0-the-entirely-for-tablet-honeycom/

It’s great to see a device coming out with Android 2.3 right off the bat, and an SE device at that! Now that SE has 2.3 maybe they can roll out 2.3 for the current Xperia users out there and skip 2.2 altogether? I’m sure a lot of their users wouldn’t mind.

regarding sa display, bago ang ginamit dito. X.LED or Reality display accdg. to GSMArena. Tsaka Camera nito feeling ko tatalo sa N8.Design, wala talaga tatalo sa SE. Panalo talaga.

@twisted_rubz

honeycomb was specially built to support tablets coz if you’re going to check the review of galaxy tab, android apps doesn’t really applicable to its resolution.

parang for both phone and tablet coz now pati resolution ng tablet halos nakikita na sa phone.

Although in general I really like Sony products, I’m staying away from their phones. Lots of users of other brands complain about their phone and slow updates, but SE seems to care very little about their phones after you’ve bought them.

If the following link is to be believed, Xperia X10 users are stuck at 2.1 forever. Can SE be trusted to update the Arc to 3.0? And when?

http://androidcommunity.com/no-android-updates-for-sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-beyond-2-1-20110106/

grabe sabog na utak ko… namamangha ako sa mga nakikita ko ngaun sa CES! sana andun ako haha para may hands-on.

ang ganda nitong xperia arc when it comes to design! grabe ang angas! ang nipis tapos ang kinis nakakatakot ilapag sa lamesa! kaso sana ung CPU nya ung medyo latest..eh ung ginamit nilang CPU 1st gen snapdragon pa eh… pero ung design talaga… pang – akit… panalo!

upgradeable to Honeycomb but given Sony’s track record in releasing updates, you’ll probably see it when Android 4.0 is available lol

@marco

u nailed it. that’s what I’ve been thinking all the time. but cant blame people.. they are so devoured by today’s commercialism.

basta for me, one can never go wrong with this phone. by the million-dollar look alone, this is worth all your hard money!! made me forget of drooling for ip4!

@gg
actually you can, just look at SE’s release schedule of android updates. They’re worse than Samsung. But then again if that’s not an issue…

On single-core and dual-core CPUs:

Agree with above comments. Single core is enough to get you by. Snapdragon has a good track record and stable. The iPhone 4 also is also powered by a single-core hummingbird variant from Samsung but it is still at par in terms of response time when compared side by side with the Tegra-sporting handsets.

I’d like to see how dual-core performs in the long run first. Although they are 20% faster and purportedly battery efficient, the letdown is it tends to heat up faster than single core chips.

Dual core CPUs will grace niche phones targeted for the really tech-hungry but Snapdragon will still be mainstream for years to come as long as Google Android maintains it as minimum requirement.

Limiting and shifting an OS/firmware to high hardware requirements hastily would result to fragmentation and shun small-time Android players and these would be counter-productive to Google’s goal of smartphone dominance. Manufacturer of Android devices pay Google the same price regardless of the OS version or market positioning of their handsets.

Im A sony ericsson user for the past years (from P800, P900, P910, P1) but suddenly switched to Apple because their mobiles are kinda “no match” to their competitors. Im planning o buy BB Torch / Iphone 4 but this ARC made me love SE again. im so excited to have this phone…. ;-) (hope its not too pricey)

does the XPERIA ARC supports flash player 10.1?

How much kaya ito dito sa Pinas?

my aunt have sony experia color white,from japan, and she will give it to me on january, im so excitedddd :) cant w8 to meet u sonyexperia :)