Sony Xperia™ Sola

May 15, 2012

Xperia™ Sola – Get entertained with a sense of magic

Watch anything you want, anywhere you like. Highlight web links without touching the screen with floating
touch™. Just like magic. Or click on a flick from Video Unlimited for blockbuster movies in super-high
quality on the razor sharp Reality Display. Time for change? Touch a SmartTag and all your settings are
fine tuned to where you are: car, home, office. Seen a scene? Capture it in the blink of a lens with the 5
MP HD camera. Life in a snap you might say.

Add the magic touch. Without the touch
Experience web magic. Browse through the sport, the gossip or the best clips without even touching the
screen. With floating touch™ you just move your finger over links and they highlight. Find that show-off
site, touch it to open, and enjoy. You’ll never open the wrong link by accident again.

Simplify your everyday with SmartTags
Touch your home Xperia™ SmartTag to turn on Wi-Fi™. Launch news & weather app. Or turn phone
sound on. Bedtime? Touch the bedroom Xperia™ SmartTag to mute your phone. Turn on its alarm. Or
turn off Wi-Fi™. With ready-to-go profiles for home, office, car and bedroom, and the choice to set the
options you want with LiveWare manager, it’s so easy to use SmartTags wherever you are. Or simply
share your pictures with other NFC enabled smartphones.

Watch the show – on the go
Pick the latest Hollywood blockbuster from Video Unlimited and download it via Wi-Fi®, then start the
show on the bus. Take in a takeaway as you watch the action in true bright colours from the razor sharp
3.7” Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine. Add crystal clear tones with 3D surround sound audio
through your headphones and you’ll feel part of the picture.

Snap your shots in a second
Why miss the unmissable? Xperia™ sola’s 5 megapixel camera goes from sleep to snap in the blink of an
eye. Just over a second actually. So you can keep the magic from the moment, then share it super-quick
on Facebook™, Twitter™ or any screen using DLNA®. On holiday? You’re always on location. When the
action starts to roll, shoot it in HD video. In fact you get everything faster with the dual core 1 GHz
processor.

Sony Entertainment Network. Your ultimate source for digital entertainment
Feasts for film fans, masses of music. Enjoy millions2 of songs from Music Unlimited. Or download your
favourite hit movies from Video Unlimited. It’s all on Sony Entertainment Network. No trips to the store. No
late fees. Just pure entertainment.
The best tracks from Music Unlimited. The latest movies from Video Unlimited – enjoy everything with one
account. It’s the perfect fit for a life full of entertainment.

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Signature features

Xperia™ sola comes with a range of Xperia™ features as standard. Below is a summary of the key
signature features.

Xperia™ Timescape™
The place to meet your friends
The Timescape™ application manages all your communication with one person in one place. You can
effortlessly browse by category your Facebook™, Twitter™, as well as view your photos. Now everything
is all together and in chronological order, so you don’t have to open different applications to see what’s
going on.

Xperia™ Infinite button
Everything you want – from everywhere
Tap the infinite button in the Timescape™ application and smart filter each category of communication by
person. For example, when viewing a text message from a friend in Timescape™, tap the infinite button to
view a list of all chat messages with that friend.

Xperia™ Local connectivity
More control over your media
Using Xperia Local connectivity, you can exercise more control over how media files get transferred and
stored. For example, you can select MTP mode to transfer files if you want to limit the risk of data corruption
or select MSC mode if you want to have more control over the data storage.

Xperia™ Home screen application
The place you call Home
Customise your Home screen with widgets, shortcuts, folders, themes, wallpaper and other items.
Where’s best for you? Email top right? Music player bottom left? You decide. With four extensions to your
Home screen, you’ve got plenty of space to put things where you want. Just remember to flick left or right
to find them.

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TECHINICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Operating system	Google™ Android™ 2.3 (Gingerbread)
Processor	1 GHz STE U8500 Dual Core
GPU	DB8500
Size	116 x 59 x 9.9 mm
Weight	107 grams
Available colours	Black White Red
Main screen
Colours	16,000,000 colour TFT
Resolution	854×480 pixels
Size (diagonal)	3.7 inches
Scratch-resistant	Yes – hard coated shatterproof sheet on scratch-resistant glass
Input mechanisms
Text input	On-screen QWERTY keyboard
Touch screen	Capacitive
Touch gesture	Yes – multi-touch, up to 4 fingers supported
Floating touch™	Yes
Memory
Internal phone storage	8 GB (up to 5 GB user-accessible memory)
RAM	512 MB
SD card	microSD™, up to 32 GB
Camera
Camera resolution	5 megapixel
Digital zoom	16x
Photo flash	Yes – LED
Video recording	Yes – HD 720p
Sensors
Accelerometer	Yes
Proximity sensor	Yes
Ambient light sensor	Yes
Magnetometer	Yes
Networks
MT27i	Quad EDGE/GSM/GPRS 850, 900, 1800, 1900 W-CDMA Band I, II, V and VIII
Data transfer speeds
GSM GPRS	Up to 100 kbps (download). Up to 80 kbps (upload)
GSM EDGE	Up to 296 kbps (download). Up to 236.8 kbps (upload)
UMTS HSPA cat 6 (upload)	Up to 5.6 Mbps
UMTS HSPA cat 10(download)	Up to 14.4 Mbps
Talk time (GSM)	Up to 6 hours*
Standby time (GSM)	Up to 470 hours*
Talk time (UMTS)	Up to 5 hours*
Standby time (UMTS)	Up to 475 hours*
Music listening time	Up to 40 hours
Video playback time	Up to 6 hours
Battery	1320 mAh (built-in), typical 1265 mAh, minimum

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Categorised feature list

Camera 3D Sweep panorama™ 5 megapixel camera 16x digital zoom Auto focus Face detection Flash/Photo flash   Geotagging HD video recording (720p) Red-eye reduction Self-timer Send to web Video light Smile detection Video recording	Music 3D surround sound Album art Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP) Clear bass Clear stereo Music Player PlayNow™ service* SensMe™ TrackID™ music recognition* xLoud™ Experience	Internet Android Market™ Bookmarks Google™ search* Google Voice™ Search* Google Maps™ for Mobile with Street view and Latitude™* NeoReader™ barcode scanner Web browser (WebKit™) Pan & zoom Floating touch™
Communication Call list Conference calls Facebook™ application* Facebook inside Xperia™ Google Talk™ application* Noise suppression Xperia™ Timescape™ 2 Speakerphone Twitter™ (Timescape™ integration)*	Messaging Conversations Email Google Mail™* Instant messaging Multimedia messaging (MMS) Predictive text input Sound recorder Text messaging (SMS)	Design Auto rotation Keyboard (on-screen, QWERTY) Picture wallpaper Reality Display with  Sony Mobile BRAVIA® Engine Screenshot capturing Touch screen Live Wallpaper Voice input Gesture input
Entertainment 3D Album Accelerated Adobe Flash Video Media browser Motion gaming Radio (FM radio with RDS) Sony Entertainment Network* Video streaming YouTube™*	Organiser Alarm clock Calculator Calendar Airplane mode 3D Album Contacts Document readers Notes Setup guide Stopwatch Tasks Timer	Connectivity 3.5 mm audio jack (CTIA) aGPS* Bluetooth™ wireless technology DLNA Certified® Micro USB support Media Go™* Media Transfer Protocol support Modem Native USB tethering NFC PC Companion Synchronisation via Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® USB High speed 2.0 support USB Host Wi-Fi® Wi-Fi® Hotspot functionality Wisepilot™ turn-by-turn navigation*

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Device-to-device communications (local)

Bluetooth™ wireless technology

 

Bluetooth™ profiles supported	Advanced Audio Distribution Profile v1.2 Audio/Video Remote Control Profile v1.0 Handsfree Profile v1.5 Headset Profile v1.1 Object Push Profile v1.1 Phonebook Access Profile v1.0
Core version and supported core features	Advanced Audio 2.1 + EDR
Connectable devices	Products which support at least one of the profiles above.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wi-Fi®

 

Supported standards	IEEE 802.11b/g/n and Wi-Fi®
Connectable devices	Wi-Fi access points
Frequency band	2.4 GHz
Data transfer rate	Up to 72 Mbit/s
Security	WEP 64 bit WEP 128 bit TKIP CCMP (AES) Open Authentication Shared Authentication EAP-SIM EAP-TLS EAP-TTLS/MSCHAPv2 PEAPv0/EAP-MSCHAPv2 PEAPv1/EAP-GTC WPA Personal and WPA2 Personal WPA Enterprise and WPA2 Enterprise
Encryption	WEP, TKIP and AES
Power save	WMM-UAPSD QoS, WMM

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DLNA Certified® (Digital Living Network Alliance)

 

Supported Device Classes	M-DMS – Mobile Digital Media Server Media Types: Image, Video and Music Summary: The digital media server exposes the media files in your phone to a Wi-Fi® network. The files can then be accessed from other DLNA Certified® clients. +PU+ Media Types: Image, Video and Music Summary: Play media saved in the phone on another device, such as TV orcomputer, using 2 box push technology. The feature +PU+ is integrated in Gallery application and Music application. M-DMP – Mobile Digital Media Player Media Types: Image, Video and Music Summary: Play content stored on another device, for example a server or a PC, directly on the phone.
Supported Bearers	Wi-Fi®
DRM Support	The Sony DLNA Certified® implementation does not support DRM-protected content.

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Messaging

MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)

According to OMA Multimedia Messaging Service v1.0 + SMIL

 

Email

Bearer type (IP)	GPRS, EGPRS, UMTS
Character sets	BIG5 Traditional Chinese GB18030 ISO-2022-JP Japanese ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-2 Eastern Europe ISO-8859-5 Cyrillic ISO-8859-7 Greek ISO-8859-9 Turkish ISO 8859-11 KOI8-R Cyrillic Shift_JIS Japanese USASCII UTF-16 UTF-8 Windows® 874 Windows® 1251 Cyrillic Windows® 1252 Windows® 1254 Turkish Windows® 1258 Vietnamese
Protocols	POP3 and IMAP4
Push email	Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® (EAS)
Secure email	SSL/TLS, both port methods (POPS/IMAPS) and STARTTLS
HTML mail	Yes (read only)

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Positioning – location based services

 

Supported standards:

• OMA Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) v2.0
• 3GPP™ Control Plane location (incl. Emergency location)

Supported satellite systems:

• GPS

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Provisioning (OMA CP)

• OMA CP version 1.1

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Multimedia (audio, image and video)

 

Audio Playback	Decoder format Audio decoding MPEG-1/2/2.5, audio layer 3 AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ AMR-NB, AMR-WB General MIDI (GM) Linear PCM 16bit OTA Ogg vorbis	Supported in file format MP3 (.mp3) 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4, .m4a) 3GPP (.3gp) SMF (.mid) WAV (.wav) OTA (.ota) Ogg vorbis (.ogg)
Audio Recording	Encoder format AMR-NB, AMR-WB AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AAC-LC stereo, sample rate 48 kHz bit rate 128 kbps	Supported in file format 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4), AMR (.amr) 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
Image Playback	Decoder format 1, 4, 8, 16, 24 and 32 bpp and RLE encoded formats Single and multi-frame, bitmap mask support (GIF87a format and GIF89a format) Joint Photographic Experts Group Portable Network Graphics Bitmap mask support Wireless Bitmap	Supported in file format BMP (.bmp) GIF (.gif) JPEG (.jpg) PNG (.png) WBMP (.wbmp)
Image Capture	Encoder format Joint Photographic Experts Group	Supported in file format JPEG (.jpg)
Video Playback	Decoder format MPEG-4 Visual Simple Profile Level 6, Advanced Simple Profile Level 5 H.264 High Profile Level 3.2 H.263 Profile 0, Level 70	Supported in file format 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4) 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4) 3GPP (.3gp)
Video Recording	Encoder format Video H.263 Profile 0, H.264 Baseline Profile Audio: AAC-LC stereo, sample rate 48 kHz bit rate 128 kbps, AMR-NB	Supported in file format 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
Audio/Video Streaming	Streaming transport	RTSP according to 3GPP™ HTTP streaming
DRM	DRM (Digital Rights Management) – features the rights and copy protection of downloaded content	OMA DRM 1.0

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Synchronisation (OMA DS, EAS, Google Sync™)

• OMA Data Synchronisation protocol versions 1.1.2 and 1.2
• OMA Data Formats: vCard 2.1, vCalendar 1.0
• Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol version 2.5
• Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol version 12
• Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol version 12.1
• Google Sync™

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Web browser

 

Browser version	Android 2.3 Browser (Based on WebKit)
Navigation/rendering	Adobe™ Flash™ 11* Full page PC rendering Landscape/portrait rendering Pan & Zoom
Search	Internet Search
Browser compliancy	CSS 2.0 CSS 2.1 CSS 3.0 DOM 2.0 DOM 3.0 HTML version 4.0 HTML version 5.0 JavaScript 1.7/ECMA-script 262 3rd edition WebGL 1.0 XHTML Basic version 1.0 XHTML 1.1
Supported Device API	Geo-location API
Protocol compliancy	Gzip HTTP/1.1 OMA Download 1.0 TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0

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