Sony Xperia Acro S

Today we’ll be taking a look at the Sony Xperia Acro S. This is a fairly powerful phone with a lot of features to its name. Of, and speaking of name, the Sony Xperia Acro S is also known as the Sony LT26w, for those of you who might have heard of it that way.

Since I don’t want to bore anyone with any long intros, let’s begin this little review of the Sony Xperia Acro S.

GENERAL

We’ll start off by taking a look at some of the more general aspects of the Sony Xperia Acro S. Here you can find out a bit about the supported networks and the announcement and release dates. The Sony Xperia Acro S uses both 2G and 3G networks. Those networks are as following : GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900 ( the 2G ones ) and HSDPA 850, HSDPA 900, HSDPA 1900 and HSDPA 2100 ( the 3G ones ). The Sony Xperia Acro S was announced in May 2012 and is expected to come out world-wide somewhere around Q3 of 2012. That’s about it for the general stuff, let’s move on now.

BODY

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the body of the Sony Xperia Acro S. Here you can find out a bit about the size and weight of the device as well as see whether or not the Sony Xperia Acro S has any particularities related to the body of the device. The Sony Xperia Acro S is around 126 x 66 x 11.9 mm big and it weighs somewhere around 147 grams. The Sony Xperia Acro S also has Touch-Sensitive Controls instead of frontal buttons. That’s all I can say about the body, so let’s move on now to the next part.

DISPLAY

Next we’ll be taking a look at the display of the Sony Xperia Acro S. Here you can find out a bit of info about the type of screen of the Sony Xperia Acro S, the screen size, the screen’s resolution and pixel density as well as see whether or not the Sony Xperia Acro S has any particularities related to the display and any screen protection. The Sony Xperia Acro S has an LED-backlit LCD capacitive touchscreen with around 16 million colors. The screen is around 4.3 inches big and can house a resolution of approximately 720 x 1280 pixels. The pixel density of the Sony Xperia Acro S is an astounding one – 342 ppi ( which is a bit excessive by my standards considering that the human eye can only perceive up to 300 ppi ). The Sony Xperia Acro S also has an Advanced Multitouch which can support up to 10 simultaneous fingers on it. This phone also has a very special means of protection : Scratch-Resistant Shatter Proof Glass. The Sony Xperia Acro S also has the Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine on it. Also, this phone is IP67 certified to be dust and water proof. It is water proof for up to 1 meter depth or 30 minutes of submersion.

SOUND

Next we’ll be taking a look at the sound of the Sony Xperia Acro S. Here you can find out a thing or two about the Alert Types, the Loudspeaker and the Audio Jack as well as find out whether or not the Sony Xperia Acro S has any sound enhancement whatsoever on it, be it software-based or otherwise. The Alert Types of the Sony Xperia Acro S are as following : Vibration and MP3 ringtones. This phone also has a Loudspeaker and a 3.5 mm jack on it. Sadly, the Sony Xperia Acro S has no sound enhancement whatsoever on it. One may be right if one calls this phone “basic”, at least as far as sound goes. That’s about everything I’m going to say about the sound of the Sony Xperia Acro S, so let’s move on.

MEMORY

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the memory of the Sony Xperia Acro S. Here you can find out a bit about the Sony Xperia Acro S’s internal storage space and ways of expanding it and the RAM memory. The RAM of the Sony Xperia Acro S is around 1 GB, which is pretty damn good considering that’s the current maximum amount of RAM. The internal storage space of the Sony Xperia Acro S is around 16 GB, however, only 11 GB out of those 16 is user-available. The rest is dedicated to the use of the system. Should 11 GB not be enough for you, the Sony Xperia Acro S has a Micro SD card slot capable of using any card of up to 32 GB. That’s all I’m going to say about the memory, so let’s move on now to the next part.

DATA CONNECTION

Next we’ll be taking a look at the connectivity of the Sony Xperia Acro S. Here you can find out a bit about the GPRS and EDGE of the device, the Speed and WLAN as well as the Bluetooth, USB and other ( if any ) connections. The Sony Xperia Acro S has both GPRS and EDGE. While it isn’t mentioned what Class they both are, we do know what speed they can reach, which is way better in my opinion. The GPRS cand go all the way up to 86 KB/s and the EDGE to 237 KB/s. The Speed of the Sony Xperia Acro S can be measured in both HSDPA and HSUPA and is as following : 14.4 MB/s ( HSDPA ) and 5.8 MB/s ( HSUPA ). The WLAN of the Sony Xperia Acro S is a Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA and Wi-Fi hotspot. the Bluetooth of the Sony Xperia Acro S is a v3.0 one with A2DP and EDR. This phone also has NFC and its USB port is a Micro USB v2.0 one with USB on-the-go support. That’s enough said about the connectivity of this device, so let’s move on now to the next part.

CAMERA

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the camera of the Sony Xperia Acro S. Here you can find out a thing or two about the main and secondary cameras as well as their features and capabilities. The main camera of the Sony Xperia Acro S is a 12 MP one and it is capable of photographing at resolutions of approximately 4000 x 3000 pixels. The features of the main camera are as following : autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, 3D sweep panorama and image stabilization. The Sony Xperia Acro S’s camera can record in 1080p full HD at around 30 frames per second. The features of the Sony Xperia Acro S’s video recorder are as follows : continuous autofocus, video light and video stabilizer. The Sony Xperia Acro S also has a secondary frontal 1.3 MP camera which can record in 720p HD at around 30 frames per second. That’s about it for the camera, so let’s move on now.

BATTERY LIFE

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the battery of the Sony Xperia Acro S. Here you can find out a bit about the battery type of the  Sony Xperia Acro S and how long it can function. This phone has a Standard Li-Ion 1910 mAh battery on it. This battery can work for around 290 hours of stand-by in 2G and 310 hours of stand-by in 3G, 6 hours and 40 minutes of talk-time in 2G and 7 hours and 10 minutes in 3 G and up to 23 hours of music play. That’s about it for the battery, so let’s move on.

HARDWARE

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the hardware of the Sony Xperia Acro S. Here you can find out a bit about the three main hardware components of the Sony Xperia Acro S : processor, motherboard and graphics card. The processor of this phone is a Dual-Core 1.5 GHz Scorpion processor. The Sony Xperia Acro S also has a Qualcomm MSM8260 Snapdragon chipset and an Adreno 220 GPU. All and all, a relatively strong hardware spec. Not one of the best, but it can hold its own in a scuffle. That’s it for the hardware, let’s move on.

SOFTWARE

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the software of the Sony Xperia Acro S. Here you can find out a bit about the OS version of the phone and whether or not it can be upgraded to a better one. Since the Sony Xperia Acro S has Android OS v4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on it, I see no reason for any upgrade for at least the next 6 months. Since there’s no more to be said here, let’s move on now to the final part of the review.

FEATURES

Last but not least, we’ll be taking a look at some of the features and capabilities of the Sony Xperia Acro S. The sensors of the Sony Xperia Acro S are as following : Accelerometer, Gyro, Proximity and Compass. The messaging on this phone can be done via : SMS ( with threaded view ), MMS, E-Mail, IM and Push Mail. The browser of this device uses HTML5 and has integrated support for Adobe Flash. This phone also has a Stereo FM radio with RDS. The GPS of the Sony Xperia Acro S has integrated support for A-GPS and GOLNASS. This device also has Java via Java mIDP emulation. The Sony Xperia Acro S is available in the following colors : White, Black and Pink.

Here is a brief list of what this phone can do :

• SNS integration
• HDMI port
• Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
• MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
• MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player
• TrackID music recognition
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
• Document viewer
• Voice memo/dial/commands
• Predictive text input

This concludes our little review of the Sony Xperia Acro S. If you feel that anything is lacking from this review feel free to leave your suggestions in the comment section below for things which should be added and I will be sure to take them into consideration when writing my future projects. In the meantime, I sincerely hope you had as much fun reading my little review as I had writing it.