rigelt: Sony Xperia GX announced

There are so many likers of the Xperia Arc design out there... I believe the Xperia GX will be better accepted as a 'true' successor than the cool Xperia S. Specs and Design come in a pleasant package, it's not surprising that the phone announcement was received well so far.

Please bear in mind, that most Sony Japan releases don't make it over to europe, but I have the feeling that this will not hold true for the Xperia GX, because there are so few negative critics in the forums at this point - it would be dumb to not wide-release the phone. Might be the model LT29i, codenamed ‘Hayabusa’ - scheduled for July/August.

But then again the specs are so close to the Xperia S' ones, we just have to wait and see.

notable Specs
(taken from sonymobile japan)

Japan June release with Android 4.0
screen: 4.55" / 1280*720 / LCD / 319ppi
camera: 13MP back illuminated sensor, LED flash, coming with the very very handy fast startup functionality. Good: the flash was moved away from the lense (reducing a bit the chance for red-eye effect). sample pictures here
front facing camera has 1.3MP
video full HD video recording of course (let me tell you that it works surprisingly well on Xperia S)
1 GB RAM, 16 GB inbuilt (?) Storage plus microSD slot... see picture below
lack of native hdmi port > coming with microUSB MHL instead
supporting Bluetooth 3.1 / not 4.0 as required by upcoming gadgets
supporting nttDocomo's 75Mbps high speed connectivity Xi（クロッシィ） LTE down 75Mbps, LTE up 25Mbps max. (theoretical stuff)
with 127g a bit lighter than the Xperia S (144g)
dual core cpu @1.5GHz (S4 Qualcomm MSM8960), fed by a removable 1700mAh battery
btw: Felica is their wireless wallet, doesn't matter to us folks in europe