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Table of contents
Product overview ........................................................................................................4
Sony Xperia™ S – Experience everything in HD ...................................................4
Signature features .................................................................................................6
Device-to-device communications (local) ...........................................................11
Wi-Fi®...............................................................................................................12
Positioning – location based services .................................................................15
Provisioning (OMA CP) ........................................................................................15
Web browser .......................................................................................................18
Trademarks and acknowledgements ..................................................................19
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Product overview
Sony Xperia™ S – Experience everything in HD
Happy faces, remarkable places. Shoot them in full HD video and see them shine back from the crisp
clear HD display. Then move on to a wider world of entertainment. Movies, hit music, PlayStation®
games. A few clicks away with Xperia™ S and Sony Entertainment Network. And don’t keep all the fun to
yourself. Share it on your HD TV, straight from your smartphone.
See every detail
See every inch of that award-winning actor. Zoom in on every detail of your favourite TV show. Experience
videos, photos and TV in deep, vivid, colour on the large, bright 4.3” HD Reality Display with Mobile
BRAVIA® Engine. Sharp pictures. No jagged edges. Merely the terrific entertainment in HD.
Snap your shots in an instant
Some events are too good to miss. Now you don’t have to. Start your camera in just over a second.
Pointing and shooting takes one second too. And you can keep on shooting. No delays, no missing the
subject. Just you capturing that special moment forever. Then share it direct, on Facebook™ or in a
message.
Show it like it is
First day of the summer, last day at the beach. Memories may fade, but Xperia™ S keeps them bright.
Record it all in full HD video with the 12 megapixel camera, even in low light. The Exmor R™ for mobile
camera sensor lightens up any gloomy day.
Got it on your smartphone? Share it on your TV
Want to be entertained? Download a movie from Video Unlimited™*. Connect Xperia ™ S to an HD TV
with an HDMI cable and the TV launcher pops up automatically. Now use your phone to play, fast forward,
or enjoy your favourite scene again.
Get ready for that kick-down start
Brake late. Hug the chicane. Accelerate hard out of the turn. Packed full of roaring engines and superb
effects, Need for Speed™ Shift by EA™ Games comes free with Xperia™ S. Fingers itching for more? Buy
and download more games straight from this PlayStation® certified smartphone. With new games
released continuously, boredom is not an option.
*Sony Entertainment Network with Video Unlimited and Music Unlimited are not available in every market.
Additionale charges may apply.
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Sony Entertainment Network. Your ultimate source for digital entertainment
Feasts for film fans, masses of music. Enjoy a global catalogue of more than 10 million songs from Music
Unlimited™*. Or download your favourite hit movies from Video Unlimited. It’s all on Sony Entertainment
Network and exclusive to Sony Xperia™ smartphones. No trips to the store. No late fees. No monthly
subscriptions. 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.
*Sony Entertainment Network with Video Unlimited and Music Unlimited are not available in every market.
Additionale charges may apply.
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Signature features
The sony Xperia™ S comes with a range of Sony Ericsson features as standard. Below is a summary of
the key signature features.
Sony Ericsson 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™, email and text communications, 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.
Sony Ericsson 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.
Sony Ericsson Local connectivity
More control over your media
Using Sony Ericsson Local connectivity, you can exercise more control over how media files get trans-
ferred 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.
Sony Ericsson 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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Facts – dimensions, weight, performance and
networks
Operating system
Processor
GPU
Google™ Android™ 2.3 (Gingerbread)
1.5 GHz Qualcomm MSM8260 Dual Core
Adreno 220
Size
128 x 64 x 10.6 mm
Weight
144 grams
Available colours
Black
White
SIM card
Micro SIM
Main screen
Colours
16,777,216 colour TFT
1280x720 pixels
Resolution
Size (diagonal)
Scratch-resistant
Input mechanisms
Text input
4.3 inches
Shatter proof sheet on scratch-resistant glass
On-screen QWERTY keyboard
Capacitive
Touch screen
Touch gesture
Memory
Yes – multi-touch, up to 10 fingers supported
Internal phone storage
RAM
Up to 1.8 GB
1 GB
Flash memory
Camera
32 GB eMMC
Camera resolution
Digital zoom
Photo flash
12.1 MP
16x
No
Video recording
Video chat camera
Front Camera
Sensors
Yes – HD 1080p
Yes
Yes – HD 720p for video chat and 1.3 MP for camera capture
Accelerometer
Yes
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Proximity sensor
Ambient light sensor
Magnetometer
Gyroscope
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Networks
LT26i
UMTS HSPA 850 (Band V), 900 (Band VIII), 1900 (Band II),
2100 (Band I)
GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900
Data transfer speeds
GSM GPRS
Up to 86 kbps
Up to 237 kbps
Up to 5.8 Mbps
GSM EDGE
UMTS HSPA cat 6 (upload)
UMTS HSPA cat 10(download) Up to 14.4 Mbps
Talk time (GSM)
Up to 7 hours 30 min*
450 hours*
Standby time (GSM)
Talk time (UMTS)
Up to 8 hours 30 min*
Up to 420 hours*
Up to 25 hours
Standby time (UMTS)
Music listening time
Video playback time
Embedded Battery
Up to 6 hours 30 min
1750 mAh typical
1700 mAh minimum
* Values are according to GSM Association Battery Life Measurement Technique.
NOTE: Battery performance may vary depending on network conditions and configurations, and phone
usage.
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Categorised feature list
Internet
Music
Camera
Android Market™**
Bookmarks
3D surround sound
Album art
3D Sweep Panorama™
12.1 megapixel camera
16x digital zoom
Aperture f/2.4
Google™ search*
Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
Clear audio
Clear bass
Music tones (MP3/AAC)
PlayNow™ service*
Music player
TrackID™ music recognition*
xLoud™ Experience
Google Voice™ Search*
Google Maps™ for Mobile with
Street view and Latitude™*
Pan & zoom
Auto focus
Face detection
Face recognition
Flash/Pulse LED
Front-facing camera (1.3 MP
720p)
Web browser (WebKit)
Geotagging
HD video recording (1080p)
Image stabiliser
Red-eye reduction
Scene recognition
Self-timer
Send to web
Smile Shutter™
Sony Exmor R™ for mobile image
sensor
Sweep Panorama™
Touch focus
Video light
Video recording
Design
Communication
Call list
Messaging
720p HD display
Auto rotation
Conversations
Facebook™ application*
Google Talk™ application*
Noise suppression
Polyphonic ringtones
Sony Ericsson Timescape™
Speakerphone
Email
Gmail™*
Gesture input
Keyboard (on-screen, QWERTY)
Reality Display with Sony Mobile
BRAVIA® ENGINE
Screenshot capturing
Touch screen
Instant messaging
Multimedia messaging (MMS)
Predictive text input
Sound recorder
Text messaging (SMS)
Twitter™ (Timescape™
integration)*
Wallpaper
Vibrating alert
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Connectivity
Organiser
Airplane mode
Alarm clock
Calculator
Calendar
Entertainment
3D games
Accelerated Adobe Flash Video
Media browser
3.5 mm audio jack (CTIA)
aGPS*
ANT+ sports fitness
Bluetooth™ wireless technology
DLNA Certified®
GLONASS*
HDMI support
Media Transfer Protocol support
Micro USB support
Native USB tethering
NFC
USB High speed 2.0 support
Wi-Fi®
Motion gaming
Contacts
PlayStation® Certified
Radio (FM radio with RDS)
Sony Entertainment Networks*
TV launcher
Video streaming
YouTube™*
Document readers
eCompass™
Infinite button
Notes
Setup guide
Stopwatch
Tasks
Timer
Wi-Fi® Hotspot functionallity
* This service is not available in all markets.
** Applications from the Android Market™ vary widely in size, from less than 100 KB for small utilities to 3-
4 MB for complete games, music player applications, or other major offerings. The average size, if a
representative selection of useful and fun applications is selected, is about 1 MB. This means that, on
average, more than 100 applications can be downloaded and used on your device without negatively
impacting performance. With the ready availability of the Android Market™ application in the phone, it is
also very easy to delete and later reinstall infrequently used applications.
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Technologies in detail
NOTE: The information outlined below is general and levels of compliance to standards and specifications
may vary between products and markets. For more information, contact Sony Ericsson Developer World
or your Sony contact person where applicable.
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 supporting at least one of the profiles above.
More information:
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Wi-Fi®
Supported standards
Connectable devices
IEEE 802.11b/g/n and Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi® access points
2.4 GHz
Frequency band
Data transfer rate
Security
Up to 72 Mbit/s
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
Power save
WEP, TKIP and AES
WMM-UAPSD
QoS, WMM
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DLNA Certified® (Digital Living Home Alliance)
Supported Device Classes
M-DMS – Mobile Digital Media Server
Media Types: images
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 in the phone on another device,
such as a TV or computer using 2 box push technology.
+PU+ is integrated in the Gallery and Music applications.
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
DRM Support
Wi-Fi®
The DLNA Certified® implementation does not support
DRM-protected content.
NOTE: Only M-DMS/M-DMP/+PU+ for image is used for DLNA Certification.
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Messaging
MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)
According to OMA Multimedia Messaging Service v1.0 + SMIL
Email
Bearer type (IP)
Character sets
GPRS, EGPRS, UMTS
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
Secure email
Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® (EAS)
SSL/TLS, both port methods (POPS/IMAPS) and START-
TLS
HTML mail
Yes (read only)
More information:
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Positioning – location based services
Supported standards:
• OMA Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) v1.0
• 3GPP™ Control Plane location (incl. Emergency location)
• Qualcomm® GPSOneXtra™
Supported satellite systems:
• GPS
• GLONASS*
* NOTE: GPS and GLONASS are used together to calculate the position. Positioning is more robust and
accurate in most conditions, if both systems are active. The benefits of using GLONASS are automatically
available for all applications using the Satellite Positioning API ("GPS Provider" in Android terminology).
Provisioning (OMA CP)
OMA CP version 1.1
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Multimedia (audio, image and video)
Audio Playback
Decoder format
Supported in file format
Audio decoding MPEG-1/2/2.5,
audio layer 3
MP3 (.mp3), 3GPP (.3gp),
MP4 (.mp4, .m4a)
AAC, AAC+, eAAC+
AMR-NB, AMR-WB
General MIDI (GM)
Linear PCM 16bit
OTA
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
3GPP (.3gp)
SMF (.mid)
WAV (.wav)
OTA (.ota)
Ogg vorbis
Ogg vorbis (.ogg)
Supported in file format
Audio Recording
Image Playback
Encoder format
AMR-NB, AMR-WB
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4),
AMR (.amr)
AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AAC-LC
stereo, sample rate 48 kHz bit rate
128 kbps
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
Decoder format
Supported in file format
1, 4, 8, 16, 24 and 32 bpp and RLE BMP (.bmp)
encoded formats
Single and multi-frame, bitmap
mask support (GIF87a format and
GIF89a format)
GIF (.gif)
Joint Photographic Experts Group
JPEG (.jpg)
Portable Network Graphics Bitmap PNG (.png)
mask support
Wireless Bitmap
WBMP (.wbmp)
Image Capture
Video Playback
Encoder format
Supported in file format
JPEG (.jpg)
Joint Photographic Experts Group
Decoder format
Supported in file format
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
MPEG-4 Simple Profile Level 6,
Advanced Simple Profile Level 5
H.264 High Profile Level 3.2
H.263 Profile 0 Level 70
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
3GPP (.3gp)
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Video Recording
Encoder format
Supported in file format
Video H.263 Profile 0, H.264
Baseline Profile
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
Audio: AAC-LC stereo, sample rate
48 kHz bit rate 128 kbps, AMR-NB
Audio/Video Streaming
DRM
Streaming transport
RTSP according to 3GPP™
HTTP streaming
DRM (Digital Rights Management) – OMA DRM 1.0 Marlin DRM
features the rights and copy
protection of downloaded content
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™
Related information:
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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
Sharing links using NFC
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
Protocol compliancy
Geo-location API
Gzip
HTTP/1.1
OMA Download 1.0
TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0
* Updates are distributed via Android market™.
Related information: www.sonyericsson.com/developer
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Trademarks and acknowledgements
The Liquid Identity and Liquid Energy logos, PlayNow, TrackID, Xperia and Timescape are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. Sony, "make.believe", Exmor R,
Smile Shutter, xLoud, Sweep Panorama, Music Unlimited, Video Unlimited and Mobile BRAVIA ENGINE
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Corporation. Ericsson is a trademark or registered
trademark of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson. PlayStation and PlayStation Certified are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
The Bluetooth word mark and logos are owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by
Sony Ericsson is under licence. TrackID is powered by Gracenote Mobile MusicID. Gracenote and
Gracenote Mobile MusicID are trademarks or registered trademarks of Gracenote, Inc.
Google, Google Calendar, Google Gallery 3D, Google Latitude, Google Maps, Google Places, Google
Talk, Google Search, Google Sync, Gmail, Picasa, YouTube, Google Voice, Android and Android Market
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Google, Inc. Facebook is a trademark or registered trademark
of Facebook, Inc. Twitter is a trademark or a registered trademark of Twitter, Inc.
Wi-Fi is a trademark or registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. DLNA and DLNA Certified are
trademarks or registered trademarks of the Digital Living Network Alliance. microSD is a trademark or
registered trademark of SanDisk Corporation. XHTML is a registered trademark of the W3C. eCompass is
a trademark or registered trademark of Genoptix, Inc.
Microsoft, Windows, ActiveSync are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation
in the United States and/or other countries.
Adobe Flash is a trademark or registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States
and/or other countries. 3GPP™ is a trademark of ETSI.
EA, the EA logo, Need for Speed, the “N” icon and the Need for Speed logo are trademarks of Electronic
Arts Inc.
Java, JavaScript and Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Oracle America, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. End-user license agreement for Oracle Java
Platform, Micro Edition. 1. Restrictions: Software is confidential copyrighted information of Oracle and title
to all copies is retained by Oracle and/or its licensors. Customer shall not modify, decompile,
disassemble, decrypt, extract, or otherwise reverse engineer Software. Software may not be leased,
assigned, or sublicensed, in whole or in part. 2. Export Regulations: Software including technical data, is
subject to U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Act and its associated
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States government is subject to the restrictions as set forth in the Rights in Technical Data and Computer
Software Clauses in DFARS 252.227-7013(c) (1) and FAR 52.227-19(c) (2) as applicable.
Qualcomm and GPSOneXTRA are trademarks or registered trademarks of Qualcomm, inc.
All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.
Some features described herein require supporting services. Usage charges may apply for such services.
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