Sony Xperia Ion Available in India – Price Rs 35,999

Sony Xperia Ion is now available in India. Snapdeal has now listed the phone for sale at a price of Rs. 35,999, even though Sony Mobile India website still says Coming Soon. This smartphone runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, powered by a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Dual Core processor and  1GB of RAM. It has 16GB of storage memory along with a microSD card slot.

The Xperia Ion comes with a 4.55-inch 1280×720 pixel TFT display. It has 12.1-megapixel camera and a 1.3-megapixel front camera. The 1900 mAh battery provides stand-by time of up to 400 hrs. Ion is packed with FM Radio with RDS, multiple format support for audio and video, 3D and motion gaming and integration with Facebook and Twitter. Pre-loaded applications such as Google Voice Search, Google Talk application, Google Mail, Google Maps with Street View and Latitude.

Sony Xperia Ion Features:

Camera and video

•    12.1 megapixel camera with photo light and Auto focus[advt]
  
•     Sony’s Exmor R for mobile CMOS sensor
•     16x digital zoom
•     HD video recording (1080p)
•     3D Sweep Panorama
•     Image playback, supported formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WBMP
•     Image capture, supported format: JPEG
•     Video recording, supported formats: 3GPP, MP4
•     Front-facing camera (1.3 megapixel, HD 720p)
•     Face detection
•     Video playback, supported formats: 3GPP, MP4, Matroska, AVI, WebM

Entertainment

•     xLOUD Experience – audio filter technology from Sony
•     FM Radio with RDS
•     3.5 mm audio jack for headphones
•     Audio playback, supported formats: MP3, 3GPP, MP4, SMF, WAV, OTA, Ogg vorbis
•     Audio recording, supported formats: 3GPP, MP4, AMR
•     3D and motion gaming
•     Timescape with Twitter integrated
•     Facebook inside Xperia 2.0
•     Sony Entertainment Network
•     TV launcher
•     PlayStation Certified
•     TrackID music recognition

Display

•    4.6”, 1280 x 720 pixels 16M color TFT
•     Reality display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine
•     Scratch-resistant, shatter proof sheet on mineral glass
•     Capacitive touchscreen with on-screen QWERTY keyboard
•     Screenshot capturing

Networks

•     GSM EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900
•     UMTS HSPA+ 850, 900, 1700, 1900, 2100