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Table of contents
Signature features .................................................................................................5
Device-to-device communications (local) ...........................................................10
Wi-Fi®...............................................................................................................11
Positioning – location based services .................................................................14
Provisioning (OMA CP) ........................................................................................14
Web browser .......................................................................................................17
Trademarks and acknowledgements ..................................................................18
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Product overview
Sony Xperia™ acro S – Experience everything in HD
Happy faces, remarkable places. Shoot them in 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. And
don’t keep all the fun to yourself.
See every detail
See every inch of that award-winning actor. Zoom in on every detail of your favourite TV show. Experience
videos and photos 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™ acro S keeps them
bright. Record it all in HD video with the 12.1 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 ™ acro 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.
*Sony Entertainment Network with Video Unlimited™ and Music Unlimited™ are not available in all
markets. Additional charges may apply.
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Signature features
The Sony Xperia™ acro S comes with a range of features as standard. Below is a summary of the key
signature features.
Xperia™ Timescape™
Communication made easy
The Timescape™ application manages all your communication with one person in one place. You can
effortlessly browse by category your Facebook™ and Twitter™ 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.
Xperia™ 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.
Xperia™ Local connectivity
More control over your media
Using Xperia™ Local connectivity, you can exercise more control over how media files get transferred and
stored. For example, you can select MTP mode to transfer files if you want to limit the risk of data corrup-
tion or select MSC mode if you want to have more control over the data storage.
Xperia™ 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™ 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
1.5 GHz Qualcomm MSM8260 Dual Core
Adreno™ 220
Size
126 x 66 x 11.9 mm
Weight
147 grams
Available colours
Black
White
Pink
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 12 key keyboard
Capacitive
Touch screen
Touch gesture
Memory
Yes – multi-touch, up to 10 fingers supported
Internal phone storage
RAM
16 GB*** (up to 11 GB user-accessible memory)
1 GB
Expansion slot
Camera
microSD™ card, up to 32 GB
Camera resolution
Digital zoom
Photo flash
12.1 MP
16x
Yes – Pulsed LED
Video recording
Front Camera
Sensors
Yes – HD 1080p
Yes – HD 720p for video chat and 1.3 MP for camera capture
Accelerometer
Proximity sensor
Ambient light sensor
Yes
Yes
Yes**
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Magnetometer
Gyroscope
Networks
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Yes
Yes
HSPA+ 850 (Band V), 900 (Band VIII), 1900 (Band II) and 2100
(Band I)
GSM 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 6 hours 40 min.*
Up to 290 hours*
Standby time (GSM)
Talk time (UMTS)
Up to 7 hours 10 min.*
Up to 310 hours*
Standby time (UMTS)
Music listening time
Video playback time
Embedded Battery
Up to 23 hours*
Up to 6 hours 30 min.*
1910 mAh typical
1840 mAh minimum
*** Some portion of the capacity may be used by pre-installed applications.
** There is no API for the light sensor.
* Values are according to GSM Association Battery Life Measurement Technique as performed in control-
led laboratory conditions. Actual time may vary.
NOTE: All performance metrics are measued under laboratory conditions.
NOTE: Battery performance may vary depending on network conditions and configurations, and phone
usage.
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Categorised feature list
Internet
Music
Camera
Bookmarks
Album art
3D Sweep Panorama™
12.1 megapixel camera
16x digital zoom
Auto focus
Google Maps™ for Mobile with
Google Latitude™ and Street
View*
Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
Music tones (MP3/AAC)
PlayNow™ service*
Walkman Player
Google Play™
Aperture f/2.4
Google™ search*
Google Voice™ Search*
Pan & zoom
TrackID™ music recognition*
xLoud™ Experience
Exposure value
Face detection
Flash/Pulsed LED
Front-facing camera (1.3 MP)
Geotagging
Web browser (WebKit™)
HD video recording (1080p)
Image stabiliser
Red-eye reduction
Send to web
Self-timer
Smile detection™
Sony Exmor R™ for mobile image
sensor
Touch capture
Touch focus
Video light
Video recording
Video stabiliser
White balance
Design
Communication
Call list
Google Talk2™ application*
Facebook™ application*
Noise Suppression
Polyphonic ringtones
SIP
Xperia™ Timescape™
Speakerphone
Twitter™ (Timescape™
integration)*
Messaging
Conversations
Email
Google mail™*
Instant messaging
Predictive text input
Sound recorder
Text messaging (SMS)
Auto rotate
Gesture input
Gyroscope
On-screen QWERTY keyboard
On-screen 12 key keyboard
HD Reality Display with Sony
Mobile BRAVIA® ENGINE
Screenshot capturing
Touch screen
Dustproof (IP5X) and Water resist-
ant (IPX5/7)
Vibrating alert
Wallpaper
Wet finger tracking
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Connectivity
Organiser
Alarm clock
Airplane mode
Calculator
Entertainment
3D games
Media browser
3.5 mm audio jack (CTIA)
aGPS*
Bluetooth™ wireless technology
DLNA Certified®
GLONASS*
Motion gaming
Contacts
PlayStation® Certified
Radio (FM radio with RDS)
Sony Entertainment Network*
TV launcher
Video streaming
YouTube™*
Document readers
eCompass™
Infinite button
OfficeSuite Pro
Setup guide
HDMI support
Media Transfer Protocol support
Micro USB support
Native USB tethering
NFC**
Widget manager
PC Companion
Synchronisation via Microsoft®
Exchange ActiveSync®
USB mass storage
USB High speed 2.0 support
Wi-Fi®
Wi-Fi® Hotspot functionality
* This service is not available in all markets.
** Not available for payments.
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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 Mobile 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 v.1.0
Handsfree Profile v1.5
Headset Profile v1.1
Object Push Profile v1.1
Phonebook Access Profile v1.0
Serial Port Profile v1.1
Personal Area Network Profile v1.0
Human Interface Device Profile v1.1
Health Device Profile v1.0
Core version and supported
core features
BT3.0
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
Auto setup
WPS
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DLNA Certified® (Digital Living Home Alliance)
Supported Device Classes
M-DMS – Mobile Digital Media Server
Media Types: images, video and music
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 into the Gallery and Music applica-
tions.
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.
+DN+
Media Types: image, video and music
Summary: Download content stored on another device,
for example, a server or a PC, and play the downloaded
content directly on the phone.
Supported Bearers
DRM Support
Wi-Fi®
The Sony DLNA Certified® implementation does not sup-
port DRM-protected content.
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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 (including 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), MP4 (.mp4)
SMF (.mid)
WAV (.wav)
OTA (.ota)
Ogg vorbis
Ogg vorbis (.ogg)
PIFF (.isma)
PIFF
FLAC
FLAC (.flac)
Audio Recording
Image Playback
Encoder format
AMR-NB, AMR-WB
Supported in file format
3GPP (.3gp)
AAC-LC stereo, sample rate 48 kHz 3GPP (.3gp, .3gpp)
bit rate up to 384 kbps
MP4 (.mp4, .m4a)
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
Image Capture
Video Playback
Encoder format
Supported in file format
Joint Photographic Experts Group
Decoder format
JPEG (.jpg)
Supported in file format
MPEG-4 Visual Simple Profile Level 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
6, Advanced Simple Profile Level 5
H.264 Baseline/Main/High Profile
Level 4
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
H.263 Profile 0, Profile 3 Level 70
3GPP (.3gp)
WebM (.webm)
PIFF (.ismv)
VP8
PIFF
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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
features the rights and copy
protection of downloaded content
Marlin DRM
PlayReady™
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 4.0 Browser (Based on WebKit™)
Browser Application
Bookmark synch
Desktop mode
Full-page PC rendering
Internet search
Landscape/portrait rendering
Off-line reading
Pan & Zoom
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
SVG 1.1
Supported Device API
Protocol compliancy
Geo-location API
Device orientation API
File reader API
Touch events API (including multi-touch)
Gzip
HTTP/1.1
OMA Download 1.0
TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0
Related information:
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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,
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 is under licence. TrackID is powered by Gracenote Mobile MusicID. Gracenote and Gracenote
Mobile MusicID are trademarks or registered trademarks of Gracenote, Inc.
Google, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Latitude, Google Maps, Google Places, Google Talk, Google
Search, Google Sync, Google Mail, Picasa, YouTube, Google Voice, Android and Googl Play 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, PlayReady, and ActiveSync are either registered trademarks or trademarks of
Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
3GPP™ is a trademark of ETSI.
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
regulations, and may be subject to export or import regulations in other countries. Customer agrees to
comply strictly with all such regulations and acknowledges that it has the responsibility to obtain licenses
to export, re-export, or import Software. Software may not be downloaded, or otherwise exported or re-
exported (i) into, or to a national or resident of, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Sudan, Syria (as such
listing may be revised from time to time) or any country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods; or (ii) to
anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nations or the U.S. Commerce
Department's Table of Denial Orders. 3. Restricted Rights: Use, duplication or disclosure by the United
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, Adreno, and GPSOneXTRA are trademarks or registered trademarks of Qualcomm, inc.
WebKit is a trademark or registered trademark of Apple, 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 service.
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