Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, the latest model to join the Xperia family, is a stylish, ultra-lightweight smartphone that will turn heads around. At first glance, you will be impressed by the slimness, 8.7mm and lightweight, 117gm. The sleek, super-slim Xperia Arc is so light that it makes the iPhone 4 feel bulky in comparison.
The smartphone boasts a 4.2” Reality display with Mobile BRAVIA® Engine makes the super-wide LED back-lit screen sharp and crisp. Equipped with the Exmor R™ for mobile CMOS sensor, Arc lets you capture high-quality, bright pictures and videos in poor light conditions powered by Sony.
Arc is Sony Ericson’s largest screen on a handset to date. The large screen takes up most of the front because the Home, Back and Settings buttons take up very little space at the bottom. If you take off the flexible plastic back cover and you will find the Li-ion BA750 battery, 8GB micro SD card and SIM card slot.
This sleek phone houses a 1Ghz Qualcomm MSM8255 processor (Snapdragon) and an Adreno 205 graphic processor which is the same pairing used in the Xperia Play, a model catered for gamers. The Arc comes with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and this will certainly excite almost any Android user as the latest version of Google’s OS comes with a slew of improvements.
The tight integration with Google Apps and native applications for Gmail, Google Talk and Calendar is impressive. You can easily manage your Gmail by adding and removing labels, just like you would do on your desktop PC. The Xperia Arc comes with an 8.1-megapixel camera that is comparable to any point-and-shoot camera phone. You can control exposure value, toggle image stabilizer, adjust white balance and even switch on geotagging to add location information to your photos.
Sony Ericson’s phone are generally known for their music playback capability and the Arc carries on this tradition by providing simple playback controls and comes with a wide selection of preset equalizer settings. The Arc is one of Sony Ericson’s most featured-packed smartphones and is worth checking out if you are looking for an Android phone running the latest version of the OS.
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