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May 30, 2012

Is This Finally a Toughphone Worth Buying?

Sony has just announced that it's launching a new toughphone, called the Xperia Advance. Unlike previous examples of hardy handsets, though, this one actually looks normal—and its specs aren't too shabby either.

It packs a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 display, dual-core 1GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera and runs... well, it runs a Gingerbread version of Android. Android 4.0 will, apparently, find its way to the device soon though. One excellent little feature is something called "wet finger tracking" which means that the screen is still useable when it's raining or when your hands are covered in water. More here.

3 comments:

Outcast said...

The last feature you mentioned sounds particularly interesting to me. I'd only heard of tough phones very recently but now I have to say that I'm sorely intrigued.

wizardOZZ said...

that sounds quite interesting, but i had sony phones and they never really convinced me...

Adam said...

I wish I had a 5 MP camera on my phone