Sony or the Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation has announced yet another affordable smartphone along with their flagship, Xperia Z2 to the countryside carrier, NTT DoCoMo.
The new mobile from the company is named as the Xperia A2, which almost resembles the company's previously announced handset, Xperia Z1 Compact in it's industrial design, with matte finished plastic back. The new phone will have IP 5X and IP X5 certifications, proving dust and water resistance, on board. The new smartphone is also said to have the same internals as seen from a Xperia Z1 Compact, coming to the store shelves in new color options, starting from Lavender, Orange, Grey Black to White. The carrier will take pre-orders for Xperia A2 from today, where the phone will arrive in middle of next month.
As far as it's internal specifications are concerned, the Sony made Xperia A2 will come out of the box with a Quad-Core Qualcomm MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 chipset, clocked at 2.2GHz with an Adreno 330 Graphics Processing Unit, 4.3-inches High Definition screen of 1280 x 720 resolution display, 16 gigabytes of internal mass storage (expandable via microSD card slot), two gigabytes of Random Access Memory, 20.7 megapixels Exmor RS main camera on the back with back-illuminated CMOS sensor and LED flash light and a 2.2 megapixels Exmor R front facing snapper. From connectivity department, there is Bluetooth 4.0, Near Field Communication and 4G LTE networks support, a 2,300mAh powered battery and runs Android's version 4.4.2 KitKat with Sony's proprietary User Interface over the hood. The smartphone is measured at 128 x 65 x 9.7 millimeters in dimensions and 138 grams on mass.
Source: Sony, XPERIA blog