Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo new droid lineup

The is part of Sony Ericsson’s new droid lineup and takes advantage of all the new features – the LED-backlit Reality display with Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine, an 8 megapixel Exmor R camera sensor, 720p video with continuous autofocus and the latest Android – 2.3 Gingerbread.
Key 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 Gingerbread
* 1 GHz Scorpion CPU, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 chipset
* 512 MB RAM
* 8 MP autofocus camera, LED flash, geotagging
* 720p video @ 30fps, continuous autofocus
* Front facing VGA camera, video calls
* Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA
* GPS with A-GPS
* microSD slot (32GB supported, 8GB 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 10.2 support
* microHDMI port

Main disadvantages

* Display has poor viewing angles
* The competition has dual-core CPUs, 1080p video
* No smart dialing
* Loudspeaker has below average performance
* No DivX/XviD support
* Memory card slot under the battery cover

The Neo benefits from new technology but it does well to focus on the important stuff: imaging. It’s not the 3.7 touchscreen that makes this phone, nor is it the 1 GHz CPU or the latest Android Gingerbread. And hey, these are all fine features to have. But in the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Neo the HD-enabled cameraphone comes before the all-round droid smartphone.