Sony Xperia S

[Wilt]

Sony announced the Xperia S (http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/xperia-s?cc=gb&lc=en#a) this year at CES.

I think it looks quite nice - I will certainly think about it when my contract comes up for renewal in July. I think SE/Sony have one of the only Android skins that I can stand - the timescape UI on my girlfriends Xperia Neo is fairly nice.

However, I think the processor might struggle to keep up (1.5Ghz Dual core) with some of the things HTC etc. are rumoured to be cooking up for MWC.

Also, the clear antenna design they have might throw up some 'death grip' issues...as Apple found out, if you point out exactly where to hold the phone and have to lose signal, people will do it.

[Ben]

I remember seeing a picture of this the other day - it's pretty! Android isn't going to pull me away from iOS any time soon, but sure, this looks like a credible handset from Sony.

[hecatae]

cant see Dual Core struggling anytime soon, I think this will be the year that ARMv5 and ARMv6 handsets will be killed off by ICS and the subsequent release, and I believe Single Core will be good enough until the end of 2013