Sony Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:SNE) Has 8.2% Smartphone Growth, As Releases Xperia UL


Sony Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:SNE) seen aggressive in smartphone market, it has announced a new smartphone code name of Xperia UL, in the Japanese market with carrier KDDI.

Just similar to the currently released Xperia A and Xperia ZR, this phone is as well water, dust resistant, and can endure 1.5M of still water for 30M. The phone is in line with Sony’s new design attitude that they have seen in phones like the Xperia Z, Xperia SP, Xperia A and Xperia ZR and has the similar signature aluminum power button that resembles a watch crown.

As the features is concern that a thin strip towards the bottom, which is fundamentally an LED light that lights up in dissimilar colors immediately, like the Xperia SP.

While the hardware specifications, the Xperia UL sports a 5-inch Reality display with a resolution of 1080×1920 pixels packing in 443P a inch incorporating Sony’s mobile Bravia engine 2 for improved expecting images and videos.

It’s powered by a 1.5GHz QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM)’s Snapdragon S4 APQ8064 quad-core processor and has 2GB of RAM. The phone is powered by Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

The smartphone attributes a 13.1MP rear camera with Exmor RS for mobile in addition to a VGA front facing camera. It proposes 16GB of internal storage expandable to 64GB by means of memory card. The phone features with NFC, 3G, Bluetooth 4.0, Infrared and 4G LTE connectivity options.

It has a 2300mAh battery. The phone will be obtainable in White, Pink and Black colours and will be accessible starting May 25 in Japan. There’s no word on the phone’s worldwide availability as of now.

Few days back, the phone had leaked in pictures on a Chinese website, whereas rumors of its existence had emerged in March.

The previous week, the Sony Xperia A was formally released by Japanese carrier NTT Docomo as part of its Summer 2013 compilation. The water in addition to dust opposed to phone has a 720p display and is powered by a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 quad-core processor. Other requirements are alike to the Xperia UL.

The smartphone sales in the country stood at 15.2M in 2012 beside 11.2M in 2011, a growth of 35.7%, according to Cybermedia Research.

As the Samsung traced the pack with 43.1% share, on second number have Nokia 13.3% and Sony has 8.2%.


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