What do you do, when you can’t find enough camera sensors for the cameraphone which you was manufacturing? Well, it seems that this was the question that went through the minds of engineers at Sony Ericsson some time before .They went close to shutting down its production but in the end they came up with a new model, the Xperia Neo V.
The Neo V is not an upgrade of its earlier version, the Neo, But actually it is a downgrade forced by some special circumstances. According to a company insider, the deadly Japan earthquake took lives and brought the local electronics industry to a halt. Sony was affected too and, with a shortage of 8 megapixel camera sensors looming, someone had to take the hit. That someone was the Xperia neo. So they simply took away the 8MP camera replaced it by a 5MP one and introduced a new android version. All this meant the price tag went down.
Features:
- Quad-band GSM /GPRS/EDGE support
- 3G with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
- 3.7″ 16M-color capacitive LED-backlit LCD touchscreen of FWVGA resolution (480 x 854 pixels) on Sony Mobile BRAVIA engine
- Android OS v2.3.4 Gingerbread
- 1 GHz Scorpion CPU, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 chipset
- 512 MB RAM
- 5 MP autofocus camera, LED flash, geo-tagging, 3D Sweep Panorama
- 720p video @ 30fps, continuous autofocus with continuous autofocus and stereo sound
- Front facing VGA camera, video chat (Google, Skype)
- Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA
- GPS with A-GPS
- microSD slot (32GB supported, 2GB card included)
- Accelerometer and proximity sensor
- Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1
- Voice dialing
- Adobe Flash 11 support
- microHDMI port
- Deep Xperia Facebook integration
Although it posts some disadvantages like the poor viewing angles for the display or Loudspeaker with average performance and very limited video codec support, How it stages itself in the market is something not to be predicted