Leaked: Sony Ericsson’s Upcoming Android Phone

by admin July 5, 2009 at 2:30 pm

We know for some time now that Sony Ericsson (SE) is working on a Google Android based mobile phone, but the company has been keeping mum on details. However, pictures leaked by a Danish site appear to reveal Sony Ericsson’s upcoming Android phone, and it looks like a good one.

Code-named Rachael, Sony Ericsson’s Android phone will be announced later this year, according to information obtained by the Danish Mobil magazine. The phone will part of SE’s XPERIA series, which so far includes the Windows Mobile-based X1 model.

And as SE joined the Open Handset Alliance in December last year, it was shaping out quite clearly that the Swedish company would join the Android-running smartphone army. Mobil says that the Android-loving SE Rachel is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform (QSD8250), wich would give the phone processor speeds of up to 1GHz and 7.2Mbit per second HSPA downlink speeds.

Read more: pcworld.com