Sony has announced their first Xperia smartphone that will be produced under their Sony brand rather than the Sony Ericsson brand, the Sony Xperia Ion and it features a 4.6 inch HD Reality display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.

The Sony Xperia Ion is powered by a dual core 1.5GHz processor and it features 16GB of built in storage, there is also a 12 megapixel rear camera which can record full HD video in 1080p, and the camera uses Sony’s latest Exmor R sensor.

The Xperia Ion comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, although Sony has said it will get an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, it also features  LTE, NFC, HD sharing with DLNA, HDMI and Sony’s Bravia Sync.

The Sony Xperia Ion will be available in the US with mobile carrier AT&T in the second quarter of 2012.

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As well as announcing the new Sony Xperia Ion, Sony also announced another new Android smartphone, the Sony Xperia S, which features a 4.3 inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.

The Sony Xperia S features a dual core 1.5GHz processor and comes with 32GB of built in storage, there is also a 12 megapixel camera on the back which comes with Sony’s Exmor R sensor and can record full HD video in 1080p.

Up front there is a 1.3 megapixel camera which is capable of 720p video and it also feature NFC, DLNA, HDMI and Sony’s Bravia Sync, out of the box it will come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but Sony have said it will be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

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