AT&T Launching Sony Xperia Ion on June 24 Discussion

[Ryan Punzalan]

Months after being unveiled at CES 2012, AT&T is announcing that it will release the Sony Xperia Ion 4G LTE smartphone on June 24. This will have some high-end features but a mid-range price.

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[weegie]

Pity they didn't use current chip tech to go with some of it's other great features, but that's typical for Sony, at least they're pricing it accordingly with this one

[Drillbit]

This is probably among the last phones Sony Ericsson designed. This is just an SE phone badged Sony. We are going to see the first true Sony designed phones soon enough.

Sony Ericsson appeared to have greatly delayed their dual core phones for 2011 due to an internal corporate argument whether to use Qualcomm's dual cores or ST Ericsson's. The former ended up in the Xperia S and Ion, the latter on the Xperia P and U devices. I don't think there is going to be another big argument with regards to chip choice under Sony's watch, although the question remains whether they will use Tegra3, Qualcomm S4 or the PS Vita chip (actually made by Samsung).

[weegie]

I guess those arguments went well back into the winmo days as well when Sony were bring out Qualcomm 72** devices when HTC, Toshiba, Acer had moved onto first gen snapdragons, then tried to sell their underpowered
devices at higher prices than anyone else.
Hopefully you're right though and we'll see some super competitive things out of them in the future

[Drillbit]

If I remembered, Sony Ericsson never launched another WinMo after the first two Xperia. The first sold miserably (Xperia X1, Feb. 2008) and the second did even worst. By the time the first WinMo Snapdragons came out, which was a Toshiba (May 2009) followed by the HTC HD2 (Oct 2009), SE has long given up on that market. In fact the first SE Snapdragon phone was the Xperia X10, which was also its first Android, and that was shortly after the heels of the HTC Desire, which was HTC's first Android Snapdragon that isn't the Nexus One. If I remember, some SE Symbian smartphones were ahead of Nokia's in terms of specifications, the Aino was already boasting a Cortex A8 type processor (similar to Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS) when Nokias were still sporting ARM11 type processors.

[weegie]

If I remembered, Sony Ericsson never launched another WinMo after the first two Xperia. The first sold miserably (Xperia X1, Feb. 2008) and the second did even worst. By the time the first WinMo Snapdragons came out, which was a Toshiba (May 2009) followed by the HTC HD2 (Oct 2009), SE has long given up on that market. In fact the first SE Snapdragon phone was the Xperia X10, which was also its first Android, and that was shortly after the heels of the HTC Desire, which was HTC's first Android Snapdragon that isn't the Nexus One. If I remember, some SE Symbian smartphones were ahead of Nokia's in terms of specifications, the Aino was already boasting a Cortex A8 type processor (similar to Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS) when Nokias were still sporting ARM11 type processors.

Not quite, there was the X2, it did poorly because it was expensive, and super sluggish like all MSM72** devices, beginning of 2010 it was available.

[Drillbit]

The X2 was introduced in the summer of 2009. But it took forever for Sony Ericsson to start shipping them.

[weegie]

Yeah, forever, like I said 2010, January to be exact e.g. after toshiba, acer, HTC had moved on to better things AVAILABLE in 2009.

[Drillbit]

The problem with Sony Ericsson is that they can be very slow. BTW, all sorts of previews and reviews of the X2 were already being shown by blogs in the summer of 2009.

This kind of lateness --- slow product and marketing cycle - is typical of Sony Ericsson and its legacy, and the Xperia Ion, P and U are the legacies of SE. It would take at least six months to design a phone up to its launch, and the Ion was already shown in January of 2012, which means it was already on the boards long before Sony took over.

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[Ed Hardy]

This device was scheduled to launch over the weekend, but I checked yesterday and this morning and it is not yet listed on this carrier's website.