Sony Xperia U: First Look

Sony has recently launched their mid-range smartphone Xperia U in the country.

Sporting a 3.5-inch display, the smartphone feels good to hold in the hands.

Sony Xperia U comes with a 5 MP rear camera.

The right panel of the device features the power button, volume rocker and a dedicated camera key.

On the left is a Micro-USB cum charging port.

The top panel is pretty clean except for a 3.5 mm jack.

It comes with an exchangeable bottom caps. These caps are available in white, black, pink and yellow colours.

Xperia U also features a front-facing VGA camera.

The transparent bar over the bottom cap lights up for notifications and alerts. The LED also changes colours while browsing photographs or listening to music.

Xperia U is powered by a 1320 mAh battery.

It comes with 8GB of internal memory and there is no microSD card support to increase its capacity.

With 1GHz dual-core processor and 512 MB RAM on-board, Sony Xperia U seems quite responsive.

The smartphone runs on Android 2.3 and is expected to get an upgrade to Android 4.0. (Pictured along with Xperia sola)

Sony has priced Xperia U at Rs. 17399.

The display of Xperia U is powered by Sony's proprietary Mobile BRAVIA Engine.

With Sony expanding its Xperia line-up, Xperia U is yet another addition in the mid-range Android league.