La famille Xperia passe à la 4G avec le nouveau smartphone Xperia Ion de Sony présenté au salon CES 2012 de Las Vegas et distribué par l'opérateur AT&T.

Sony Tablet P SGPT212DE - Tablet - Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) - 4 GB - 13.9 cm ( 5.5" ) TFT ( 1024 x 480 ) + 13.9 cm ( 5.5" ) TFT ( 1024 x 480 ) - Kamera auf Rück- und Vorderseite - microSD-Steckplatz - Wi-Fi, Bluetooth - 3G - Schwarz

CPU: ARM Cortex-A9, 2x 1.00GHz (nVIDIA Tegra 2) • RAM: 1GB • Festplatte: 16GB Flash • Grafik: nVIDIA GeForce ULP (IGP) • Display: 9.4", 1280x800, kapazitiv Multi-Touch, LED • Anschlüsse: 1x USB 2.0 (Micro-USB) • Wireless: WLAN 802.11bgn, Bluetooth, UMTS/HSDPA, A-GPS • Card reader: SD • Webcam: 0.3 Megapixel (vorne), 5.0 Megapixel (hinten) • Betriebssystem: Android 3.1 (Android 4.0 Update verfügbar) • Akku: Li-Ionen, 5000mAh • Gewicht: 0.62kg • Abmessungen: 241.2x174.3x10.1mm • Besonderheiten: keine Angabe • Herstellergarantie: 12 Monate

The international version of Sony’s Japanese Xperia GX has been suffering a crisis of identity, being known as the LT29i and also by the codename Hayabusa. But it has yet to get an official, consumer-friendly name. A leak from sources at Xperia Blog claims the phone has a name: the Sony Xperia TX. This would fit in with Sony’s new naming convention, which uses single and double letters to designate the relationship between high-end and mid-level phones. So the Xperia TX would clearly be a higher-end Xperia T.

It is said to sport a 4.6-inch HD reality 720p screen, a dual-core Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU, 1GB RAM, Android 4.0 ICS, a whopping 13MP camera with HDR video, a thin 7mm profile, and a nice size battery. This is certainly shaping up to be Sony’s latest flagship model. We’re expecting to see this phone, along with the Xperia T and Xperia Tablet at IFA in Berlin later this month.

Who’s waiting for this one?

Alexander Black just sent us an email with a HTC concept that he designed, once again a device that runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Meet the HTC Pyro, a fire red devil with a 2GHz quad core Snapdragon processor and a 12 megapixel camera at the back.

Its design reminds me of a combo between the Nokia N9 and the HTC Incredible S. HTC Pyro comes with 4.8 inch Super AMOLED display, an 8 megapixel front camera, that will generate some HD video calls and Beats by Dr. Dre headphones. Considering I’ve been hearing so much about HTC quad core phones for 2012, this handset will come from concept phase to real life pretty fast, that’s for sure.

I just hope that HTC will get over the handicap of using so little RAM (768MB), so little internal memory (1GB) and poor cameras. It’s a known fact that HTC doesn’t create the best cameras on smartphones, although I have to admit that the HTC Sensation XE cam was decent. However, they’re still far from the level of Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy Note. Megapixels aren’t the solution here…