Sony Launches Xperia SP and Xperia L

Photo credits-The Verge

Sony had a hard time competing in the high-end mobile market segment after it parted ways with Ericsson for the past two years, but its new smartphones were among the most attractive offerings to the market. Sony Xperia U and Xperia GO, were mid range phones which provided customers with some fragments of the features of a high end phone. Sony had always been known for its design, but now it has mixed design with latest features and the most promising part is that this package costs comparatively low. Recently it had launched Sony Xperia Z, which lead to a great success, which the company is looking to keep going. In order to fulfill this requirement Sony has launched two new mid-range Xperia smartphones, the Xperia SP and Xperia L. 

Photo credits-NDTV

The Sony Xperia SP is the more interesting of the pair with a 4.6-inch 720p display, 1.7GHz Qualcomm MSM8960 Pro Dual Core processor, Adreno 320 GPU and an 8-megapixel camera with Exmor RS sensor.It has an onboard memory of 8GB which can be further expanded up to 32GB via miroSD card. The phone supports 1080p HD video recording and a VGA front facing shooter.For connectivity it is equipped with LTE and NFC and comes with a 2370mAh battery, which is claimes to offer a talk time of up to 10 hours and 25 minutes and standby time of up to 635 hours.The phone will be available in white, red and black colour variants.

Photo credits-GSM Arena

The Sony Xperia L is a precision engineered feature mix, making it a true successor to last year's Xperia U. It is claimed to have a 1GHz Snapdragon dual-core processor, Adreno 305 GPU, 4.3-inch display with resolution of 854 x 480, 8GB of internal storage (expandable via microSD), an 8-megapixel rear camera with Exmor RS sensor  that supports 720p HD video recording and a VGA front facing shooter. The phone supports NFC functionality and comes with a 1750mAh battery, which is claimed to offer a talk time of up to 8 hours and 30 minutes and standby time of up to 498 hours. The phone will be available in white, red and black colour variants.

Photo credits-The Verge

Sony Xperia SP key specifications

• 4.6-inch TFT display(Tempered glass) with a resolution of 720x1280 pixels
• 1.7 GHz Qualcomm MSM8960Pro Dual Core processor
• 8GB internal memory expandable up to 32GB via microSD
• 8-megapixel Exmor RS autofocus camera with LED flash
• VGA front camera
• 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, EDGE, GPRS, GPS, LTE
• Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
• 2,370mAh battery

Sony Xperia L key specifications

• 4.3-inch TFT display(Scratch-resistant touch panel cover glass) with a resolution of 480x854 pixels
• 1 GHz Qualcomm MSM8230 dual-core processor
• 8GB internal memory expandable up to 32GB via microSD
• 8-megapixel Exmor RS autofocus camera with LED flash
• VGA front camera
• 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, EDGE, GPRS, GPS, LTE
• Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
• 1,750mAh battery

Both the Xperia SP and L will be available in Asia and Europe by the end of June.

Source-NDTV

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"Lyrics Music Extension" This App Let's You Know The Lyrics Of Currently Playing Song.

No doubt android market has plenty of apps but there are certain apps which are really good by small developers but go unrecognized and people are not aware of it and that's where we come in play.So,today i will tell you about a app called Lyrics Music Extension developed by VOICHE .I came through this app in One of the forums of Xda-developer.

This is a really awesome app mainly for Sony Xperia users.This app lets you know the lyrics of the currently playing music on your player.Now No more searching for lyrics on the web or using other apps.The new update also brings support for Indian songs.

As soon as install the app you can see an infinite button just click on that and then select view lyrics and there it is .

Currently it is available only for following devices-:

Smartphones :

• Sony Ericsson Arc S
• Sony Xperia SL
• Sony Xperia Ion
• Samsung Galaxy S II

Tablet :

• Sony Xperia Tablet S
• Sony Xperia Z & Galaxy Note 2 Coming SooN :)

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Mod for increasing Camera Quality of Sony Xperia Ray, Active, Mini, and Mini Pro

By-Rustam Ali

Mobile companies while manufacturing a device restrict the features of the hard wares to a certain limit so the customers are not able to make use of their devices to its full capacity. Their have always been tweaks for increase the performance via some softwares or tweaks which include overclocking the smartphone's CPU , Modding camera to its full capacity to get high quality pictures and videos. 

Today i will tell you how to mod your Sony Xperia Ray, Active, Mini, and Mini Pro's Camera quality. 

Sony Xperia Active

Sony Xperia Ray

Sony Xperia Mini Pro

Photo Credits- Sony

Some of the features that this tweak includes:
-Camera Mod Fast Capture
-Smooth HD Recording
-HQ Stereo Audio Video Recording
-Improved HD Video Audio to 256kbps From 128kbps
-Format HD Video Recording changed to MPEG4 from H264 for better performance Smooth
-100% JPEG Quality


The tweak that has to be used for this process is Cybershot 4.0, which you can get from here.
This update has to applied via CWM (ClockWorkMod), if you do not know how to use CWM you can refer to my last post. Just do not forget to backup your phone before performing this process and do "WIPE CACHE PARTITION" then reboot your device and after installing please clear data camera & force stop in setting>applications>all . Then you are good to go and enjoy your camera with high quality pictures and smooth HD video recording. 

Note: We are not responsible if your device gets bricked during this process.

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Sony Xperia to receive jelly bean updates,know here when ??

By Harkirat Singh(Twitter)(Google+)

                              People have been waiting for Jelly bean update for a long time and there's some good news for the Sony-Xperia fans but its not great,they have to wait for a long time before they get this update :(

As said in the community forum of  sony offcial blog it said it will be updating sony phones in the first quater of 2013

They said:

"Hello everyone,

There’ve been a fair few questions here on the blog, our support forum and our social media channels, regarding upgrade plans for Android 4.1 (also known as Jelly Bean). Today we are happy to give you a bit of an update. Our latest models, Xperia T and Xperia TX are shipping across global markets as you read this post, and Xperia V is on the way shortly – these smartphones will begin to receive the upgrade to Jelly Bean from mid-Q1 2013.

                                                                   Next up, we can confirm the global versions of Xperia S, Xperia acro S, Xperia ion, Xperia P, Xperia go and Xperia J will be upgraded to Android 4.1* – we will be back with detailed timings for these in due course.

We were glad to provide the Android 4.0.4 upgrade for our 2011 Xperia portfolio across most markets and the majority of models but, after thorough evaluation, we have concluded they will not be upgraded beyond Ice Cream Sandwich.

                                                        As we have compared Jelly Bean comes with new features like offline voice typing, auto arranging of icons, and a predictive keyboard. It also sports Google Now, a richer use of the company's Knowledge Graph. Google Now can memorize your normal commute from home to work and back, then provide alternate routes if it detects traffic.

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A new way of touching your touchscreen "Floating Touch" !

By-Rustam Ali

                    Want to experience touch screen without even touching the screen?

                                 Floating Touch is the feature that allows you to just give a gesture above the screen and the screen will sense it as a touch, this is done by overriding the sensitive  capacitive touch panels now majorly used in smartphones.This feature was initially developed for just some live wallpapers and applications then it was embedded for the whole user interface, Sony Xperia Sola was the first phone to use this feature.

                                                              Photo credits- Google

                         Successful porting of this feature has been carried out on Samsung Galaxy S Plus and Samsung Galaxy SL. So if you too want to try out this feature on your Samsung Galaxy S Plus or Samsung Galaxy SL then just download the application attached below and install in your device.

You can get the application here.

Hackinthus is not aware of any other side-effects, and take no responsibility for this application at all.

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