The Powerful and Compact Sony Ericsson XPERIA Ray

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Ray is a powerful but compact mobile phone. It is extremely thin mobile phone with a svelte, sleek design.

The Good:

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Ray measures 9.4mm thick and is 111mm long. It weighs only 100g, making it a very compact device.

To please the fashionable users there is a variety of colors to choose from, like black, gold, white or pink.

The XPERIA Ray offers a3.3 inch LED backlit LCD capacitive touchscreen with 480 x 854 resolution and 16 million colors. To protect the screen while you carry it in pocket or purse, there is a scratch resistant covering. The screen also offer multi touch input and auto rotate.

The XPERIA Ray offers an impressive 8 mega pixel camera. The camera supports image stabilization, face detection and geo-tagging. If you are a fan of face to face video calling, there is also a front facing camera for video calls either with 3G network or by using a third party video calling app.

The camera is also capable of recording videos at 720p.

For your entertainment pleasure the XPERIA Ray offers a full media player that supports formats for music and video including MP3,MP4, eAAC and H.264. The device also includes TrackID. This app allows the user to tag music by recording only snippets which are then uploaded online and identified by the digital signature of the track. This information is then sent back to the device telling the user the track name, the band or artist and a link to where they can purchase it online. You get all this and an FM radio too.

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Ray is powered by a 1.0 GHz processor and support the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. This means you get all the usual Google apps like Google Maps, Gmail, GoogleTalk, Google Search and Google Calendar.

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Ray uses the Timescape interface.

This makes it easy to keep in touch with friends online by collating information and updates from emails and social networks and sending them to the standby screen.

For connectivity this device offers Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS, EDGE and a micro USB port.

The XPERIA Ray comes with a 1500 mAh Ion battery. This will give the user up to 440 hours of stand-by and 7 hours of talk time along with 36 hours of music playback without have to charge up.

The Bad:

Yes, this amazing mobile phone technology is extremely thin unfortunately this type of device is not for everyone especially when you are trying to type on the tiny screen. This is fine for younger users and dainty women, but it could be a problem for others.

Also it would be nice if it was a little more powerful than 1GHz, especially with all the live wallpapers out there.

All in all the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Ray is a pleasure to use most of the time. Kudos to Sony for squeezing all those features into such a compact unit. However, in order to make the best of this very tempting mobile phone offer, make sure that you look for Sony Ericsson XPERIA Ray deals that best fit your needs and budget.