Photos and information about the smartphone Sony ST21i Tapioca appeared on the Internet for quite some time, but the unit has not yet been announced. Novelty refers to the category of low cost smartphones, and should fill up the line Xperia.
Today we learned the commercial name of the smartphone and some specifications.The device goes on sale under the name Sony Xperia Tipo and budget smartphone will be the first Japanese company with the operating system Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich. Novelty equipped small 3.2-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 320x480 pixels. The smartphone is based on the chipset Qualcomm MSM7227. Responsible for the performance of single-core smartphone Snapdragon processor with 512 megabytes of RAM and a graphics accelerator Adreno 200 GPU. The basic 3-megapixel camera equipped with a LED flash unit. Battery capacity was 1450 mAh, and it should be enough for such a "feeble" device.
Price Xperia Tipo will be known only after the official announcement, scheduled for July-August 2012.