If some of you will recall, several Xperia Arcs were shown at CES with a firmware version of Android 2.4. Well, before you get all excited and start running out to drop an arm and a leg on the device in hopes to have a secret version of Android unbeknown to the world, we hate to disappoint you, but there is no 2.4. Rikard Skogberg, who writes for Sony Ericsson’s product blog, has posted a few thoughts and details about the device after spending a week using it as his primary phone.
Regarding the Android version 2.4 sighting on the device, he states:
I’ve seen articles around higher numbers than 2.3 being seen in the display of Xperia arc phones – As I have been informed that is due to a misconfiguration in some samples and nothing to get too excited about really, sorry.
Another note worth mentioning regarding Skogberg’s post addresses future OS updates for their Xperia devices. He further states:
It’s too early to officially give detailed comments around specific later Android versions for XperiaTM arc during its lifecycle but the changes we have made to our way of working with Android puts us in a good position to make sure that Xperia arc will get later versions in a timely manner.
We applaud Sony for taking the initiative to address an obvious concern for most people, which are receiving timely updates for their devices. We hope that Sony will follow through on the promise and that current Xperia X10 users might see a slice of the pie soon as well. Below is a compilation of answers to questions that Skogberg received on the blog and answered for his readers. Let us know what you think in the comments below. Don’t forget to check out the video as well which Skogberg posted on the blog.
- The CPU and GPU specs are: MSM8255 at 1 GHz with Adreno 205.
- The music player does have an equalizer, my current software has 10 different genre based presets.
- It does not have a front facing camera.
- Mediascape is removed in its earlier form and has changed into a customizable widget based “media pane” (as shown briefly in the video)
- It’s too early to officially give detailed comments around specific later Android versions for XperiaTM arc during its lifecycle but the changes we have made to our way of working with Android puts us in a good position to make sure that Xperia arc will get later versions in a timely manner.
- I’ve seen articles around higher numbers than 2.3 being seen in the display of Xperia arc phones – As I have been informed that is due to a misconfiguration in some samples and nothing to get too excited about really, sorry.
- It does have two microphones which will be used for noise suppression during phone calls.
- The camera LED flash is possible to put in four different modes; Auto, Fill-flash, Red-eye Reduction & Off.
- It does have full multi touch support, I just tried a similar multi touch test app as I did in the video on the X10 and at least in that app it accepts 4 simultaneous touch points without any issues with X- and Y-axis or such things. I will try to get confirmation on final specs in regards to multi touch.
- It does support wi-fi up to the 802.11n mode.
[via sonyericsson]