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Purpose of this document
Sony Ericsson product White papers are intended to give an overview of a product and provide details in
relevant areas of technology.
Document history
Version
August 2011 Nineth released version Version 9
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Nineth released version (August 2011)
Publication number: 1246-7666
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Mobile Communications AB, without any
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information in this document.
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Table of contents
Product overview ........................................................................................................4
Sony Ericsson Xperia™ arc – Life just got more brilliant .......................................4
Sony Ericsson signature features ..........................................................................5
Facts – dimensions, weight, performance and networks ......................................6
Categorised feature list ..........................................................................................8
Technologies in detail ...............................................................................................10
Device-to-device communications (local) ...........................................................10
Bluetooth™ wireless technology ......................................................................10
Wi-Fi® ...............................................................................................................11
DLNA Certified™ (Digital Living Home Alliance) ...............................................12
Messaging ...........................................................................................................13
MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)..............................................................13
Email .................................................................................................................13
Positioning – location based services .................................................................14
Provisioning (OMA CP) ........................................................................................14
Multimedia (audio, image and video) ...................................................................15
Synchronisation (OMA DS, EAS, Google Sync™) ...............................................16
Web browser .......................................................................................................17
Trademarks and acknowledgements ..................................................................18
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Product overview
Sony Ericsson Xperia™ arc – Life just got more brilliant
See the Rio Carnival in vivid colours. The low sun in high contrast. Home videos. Professional stills.
Classic car chases. Sharp, crisp and clear on the 4.2” super wide multi-touch Reality display, driven by
the Sony Mobile BRAVIA™ Engine™. Show everything off to your friends, even outdoors, with less
reflection. For hours and hours thanks to low power consumption. It’s time to put the real back into life.
The centre of attraction. You
Pick up the phone. Now strike a pose. Slim, sleek and strong, Xperia™ arc adds a touch of sharp to your
smart. Take hands-on handsome. Add premium materials. Stir in some beautiful curvature. Squeeze down
to just 8.7 mm. And you’ve got a wafer thin smartphone that fits nicely in your hand. Designed for style
icons.
Shoot. Show. Shine
Document your dramas on YouTube™, your stills on Picasa™. Shoot it. Show it. In stunning HD direct on
your TV. Fancy the film without the noir? The Exmor R™ for mobile sensor captures movies and stills in
low light and turns them into shining epics.
Android. Even more in store
Need a co-pilot? Suggestions for dinner? Review the restaurant. Or find the petrol station with Google
Places™. Don’t know where it is? Get directions from Google Maps™. Or maybe getting fit is your thing?
Xperia™ arc is loaded with apps for Android™. But you can always pop in the store for more. Thousands
more actually. From Android Market™. Whatever you want for whatever makes you smile.
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Sony Ericsson signature features
Xperia™ arc comes with a range of Sony Ericsson features as standard. Below is a summary of the key
signature features.
Sony Ericsson Timescape™
The place to meet your friends
The Timescape™ application manages all your communication with one person in one place. You can
effortlessly browse by category your Facebook™, Twitter™, email and text communications, as well as
view your photos. Now everything is all together and in chronological order, so you don't have to open
different applications to see what's going on.
Infinite button
Everything you want – from everywhere
Tap the infinite button in the Timescape™ application and smart filter each category of communication by
person. For example, when viewing a text message from a friend in Timescape™, tap the infinite button to
view a list of all chat messages with that friend.
Sony Ericsson Sync
Your mobile life on the web
Synchronise your phone data using Sony Ericsson Sync so that you always have a backup. While you’re
at it, match your phone contacts with your Facebook™ contacts. All your synchronised phone data is right
at your fingertips and in your account on www.sonyericsson.com.
Sony Ericsson Local connectivity
More control over your media
Using Sony Ericsson Local connectivity, you can exercise more control over how media files get transferred and stored. For example, you can select MTP mode to transfer files if you want to limit the risk of
data corruption or select MSC mode if you want to have more control over the data storage.
Sony Ericsson Home screen application
The place you call Home
Customise your Home screen with widgets, shortcuts, folders, themes, wallpaper and other items.
Where’s best for you? Email top right? Music player bottom left? You decide. With four extensions to your
Home screen, you’ve got plenty of space to put things where you want. Just remember to flick left or right
to find them.
* Applications from the Android Market™ vary widely in size, from less than 100 KB for small utilities to 3-4
MB for full games, music player applications, or other major offerings. The average size, if a representative
selection of useful and fun applications is selected, is about 1 MB. This means that, on average, more than
100 applications can be downloaded and used on your device without negatively impacting performance.
With the ready availability of the Android Market™ application in the phone, it is also very easy to delete
and later reinstall infrequently used applications.
** Note: Some of the services mentioned above may not be available in all markets.
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Facts – dimensions, weight, performance and networks
Operating system Google™ Android™ 2.3 (Gingerbread)
Processor 1 GHz Qualcomm MSM8255
GPU Adreno 205
Size 125 x 63 x 8.7 mm
Weight 117 grams
Available colours Midnight Blue
Misty Silver
Main screen
Colours 16,777,216 colour TFT
Resolution 854x480 pixels
Size (diagonal) 4.2 inches
Scratch-resistant Yes – Shatter proof sheet on mineral glass
Input mechanisms
Text input On-screen QWERTY keyboard
Touch screen Capacitive (multi-touch)
Touch gesture Yes – multi-touch
Memory
Internal phone storage 1 GB (up to 320 MB user-accessible memory)
RAM 512 MB
Expansion slot microSD™, up to 32 GB
Camera
Camera resolution 8.1 megapixel
Smart zoom Up to 2x
Video zoom 16x
Photo flash Yes – LED
Video recording Yes – HD 720p
Sensors
Accelerometer Yes
Proximity sensor Yes
Ambient light sensor Yes
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Magnetometer Yes
Networks
LT15i UMTS HSPA 900 (Band VIII), 2100 (Band I)
GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900
LT15a UMTS HSPA 800 (Band VI), 850 (Band V), 1900 (Band II), 2100
(Band I)
GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900
Data transfer speeds
GSM GPRS Up to 86 kbps
GSM EDGE Up to 237 kbps
UMTS HSPA cat 6 (upload) Up to 5.8 Mbps
UMTS HSPA cat 8 (download) Up to 7.2 Mbps
Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC)
Variant M-Ratings T-Ratings
LT15 a M3 T1
LT15 i n/a n/a
Talk time (GSM) Up to 6 hours 55 min*
Standby time (GSM) Up to 430 hours*
Talk time (UMTS) Up to 7 hours*
Standby time (UMTS) Up to 400 hours*
Music listening time Up to 31 hours
Video playback time Up to 7 hours 25 min
Battery 1500 mAh
* Values are according to GSM Association Battery Life Measurement Technique.
NOTE: Battery performance may vary depending on network conditions and configurations, and phone
usage..
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Camera
3D sweep panorama
8.1 megapixel camera
2x smart zoom
Aperture f/2.4
Auto focus
Face detection
Flash/LED
Geo tagging
HD video recording (720p)
Image stabiliser
Red-eye reduction
Scene detection
Self-timer
Send to web
Smile detection
Sony Exmor R™ CMOS sensor
Sweep panorama
Touch capture
Touch focus
Video light
Video recording
Video stabiliser
Music
Album art
Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
Music tones (MP3/AAC)
PlayNow™ service*
Sony Ericsson Music Player
TrackID™ music recognition*
Internet
Android Market™**
Bookmarks
Google™ search*
Google Voice™ Search*
Pan & zoom
Web browser (WebKit)
Communication
Call list
Conference calls
Facebook™ application*
Facebook inside Xperia™ 2.0
Google Talk™*
Noise Shield
Polyphonic ringtones
Sony Ericsson Timescape™
Speakerphone
Twitter™ (Timescape™
integration)*
Vibrating alert
Messaging
Conversations
Email
Google Mail™*
Instant messaging
Multimedia messaging (MMS)
Predictive text input
Sound recorder
Text messaging (SMS)
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Design
Auto rotation
Keyboard (on-screen, QWERTY)
Live wallpaper
Picture wallpaper
Reality Display with Mobile
BRAVIA® Engine
Screenshot capturing
Swipe to write
Touch screen
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Entertainment
3D games
Accelerated Adobe Flash Video
Media browser
Motion gaming
Radio (FM radio with RDS)
Sony Entertainment Networks*
Video streaming
YouTube™*
Organiser
Alarm clock
Calculator
Calendar
Document readers
E-Manual
Flight mode
Google Calendar™*
Google Gallery 3D*
Infinite button
Phonebook
Setup guide
Widget manager
Connectivity
3.5 mm audio jack
aGPS*
Bluetooth™ technology
DLNA Certified™
Google Latitude™*
Google Maps™ with Street View*
HDMI support
Media Transfer Protocol support
Micro USB support
Modem
Native USB tethering
Synchronisation via Facebook™*
Synchronisation via Google
Sync™*
Synchronisation via Sony
Ericsson Sync
Synchronisation via Exchange
ActiveSync®
USB mass storage
USB High speed 2.0 support
USB OTG
Wi-Fi®
Wi-Fi® Hotspot functionallity
* This service is not available in all markets.
** Applications from the Android Market™ vary widely in size, from less than 100 KB for small utilities to 34 MB for full games, music player applications, or other major offerings. The average size, if a
representative selection of useful and fun applications is selected, is about 1 MB. This means that, on
average, more than 100 applications can be downloaded and used on your device without negatively
impacting performance. With the ready availability of the Android Market™ application in the phone, it is
also very easy to delete and later reinstall infrequently used applications.
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Technologies in detail
NOTE: The information outlined below is general and levels of compliance to standards and specifications
may vary between products and markets. For more information, contact Sony Ericsson Developer World
or your Sony Ericsson contact person where applicable.
Device-to-device communications (local)
Bluetooth™ wireless technology
Bluetooth™ profiles supported Advanced Audio Distribution Profile v1.2
Audio/Video Remote Control Profile v.1.0
Handsfree Profile v1.5
Headset Profile v1.1
Object Push Profile v1.1
Phonebook Access Profile v1.0
Core version and supported
core features
Connectable devices Products supporting at least one of the profiles above.
More information:
www.sonyericsson.com/developer
www.bluetooth.com
Advanced Audio 2.1 + EDR
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Wi-Fi®
Supported standards IEEE 802.11b/g/n and Wi-Fi
Connectable devices Wi-Fi access points
Frequency band 2.4 GHz
Data transfer rate Up to 72 Mbit/s
Security WEP 64 bit
WEP 128 bit
TKIP
CCMP (AES)
Open Authentication
Shared Authentication
EAP-TLS
EAP-TTLS/MSCHAPv2
PEAPv0/EAP-MSCHAPv2
PEAPv1/EAP-GTC
WPA Personal and WPA2 Personal
WPA Enterprise and WPA2 Enterprise
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Encryption WEP, TKIP and AES
Power save WMM-UAPSD
QoS, WMM
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DLNA Certified™ (Digital Living Home Alliance)
Supported Device Classes M-DMS – Mobile Digital Media Server
Media Types: Images
Summary: The digital media server exposes the media
files in your phone to a Wi-Fi® network. The files can
then be accessed from other DLNA Certified™ clients.
Supported Bearers Wi-Fi®
DRM Support The Sony Ericsson DLNA Certified™ implementation
does not support DRM-protected content.
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Messaging
MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service)
According to OMA Multimedia Messaging Service v1.0 + SMIL
Bearer type (IP) GPRS, EGPRS, UMTS
Character sets BIG5 Traditional Chinese
GB2312 Simplified Chinese
ISO-2022-JP Japanese
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-2 Eastern Europe
ISO-8859-5 Cyrillic
ISO-8859-7 Greek
ISO-8859-9 Turkish
ISO 8859-11
KOI8-R Cyrillic
Shift_JIS Japanese
USASCII
UTF-16
UTF-8
Windows® 874
Windows® 1251 Cyrillic
Windows® 1252
Windows® 1254 Turkish
Windows® 1258 Vietnamese
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Protocols POP3 and IMAP4
Push email Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® (EAS)
Secure email SSL/TLS, both port methods (POPS/IMAPS) and START-
TLS
HTML mail Yes (read only)
More information:
www.sonyericsson.com/developer
www.openmobilealliance.org
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Positioning – location based services
Supported standards:
• OMA Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) v1.0
• 3GPP™ Control Plane location (incl. Emergency location)
• Qualcomm® GPSOneXtra™
Supported satellite systems:
GPS
GLONASS*
* NOTE: GPS and GLONASS are used together to calculate the position. With both systems active, the
accuracy and robustness of the positioning is better in most conditions. The usage of GLONASS as an
additional system is transparent both to users and developers, and the benefits are automatically available
to applications currently using the Satellite Positioning API (“GPS Provider” in Android terminology).
Provisioning (OMA CP)
OMA CP version 1.1
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Multimedia (audio, image and video)
Audio Playback Decoder format Supported in file format
Audio decoding MPEG-1/2/2.5,
audio layer 3
AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
AMR-NB, AMR-WB 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
General MIDI (GM) SMF (.mid)
Linear PCM 16bit WAV (.wav)
OTA OTA (.ota)
Ogg vorbis Ogg vorbis (.ogg)
Audio Recording Encoder format Supported in file format
AMR-NB, AMR-WB 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4),
AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AAC-LC
stereo, sample rate 48 kHz bit rate
128 kbps
Image Playback Decoder format Supported in file format
1, 4, 8, 16, 24 and 32 bpp and RLE
encoded formats
MP3 (.mp3), 3GPP (.3gp),
MP4 (.mp4, .m4a)
AMR (.amr)
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
BMP (.bmp)
Single and multi-frame, bitmap
mask support (GIF87a format and
GIF89a format)
Joint Photographic Experts Group JPEG (.jpg)
Portable Network Graphics Bitmap
mask support
Wireless Bitmap WBMP (.wbmp)
Image Capture Encoder format Supported in file format
Joint Photographic Experts Group JPEG (.jpg)
Video Playback Decoder format Supported in file format
MPEG-4 Visual Simple Profile,
Advanced Simple Profile Level 6
H.264 High Profile Level 3.1 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
H.263 Profile 0, Profile 3 Level 70 3GPP (.3gp)
GIF (.gif)
PNG (.png)
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
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Video Recording Encoder format Supported in file format
Video H.263 Profile 0, H.264
Baseline Profile
Audio: AAC-LC stereo, sample rate
48 kHz bit rate 128 kbps, AMR-NB
Audio/Video Streaming Streaming transport RTSP according to 3GPP™
DRM DRM (Digital Rights Management) –
features the rights and copy
protection of downloaded content
3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4)
HTTP streaming
OMA DRM 1.0
Synchronisation (OMA DS, EAS, Google Sync™)
OMA Data Synchronisation protocol versions 1.1.2 and 1.2
OMA Data Formats: vCard 2.1, vCalendar 1.0
Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol version 2.5
Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol version 12
Google Sync™
Related information:
www.sonyericsson.com/developer
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Web browser
Browser version Android 2.3 Browser (Based on WebKit)
Navigation/rendering Adobe™ Flash™ 10.3*
Full page PC rendering
Landscape/portrait rendering
Pan & Zoom
Search Internet Search
Browser compliancy CSS 2.0
CSS 2.1
CSS 3.0
DOM 2.0
DOM 3.0
HTML version. 4.0
HTML version. 5.0
JavaScript 1.7/ECMA-script 262 3rd edition
WebGL 1.0
XHTML Basic version 1.0
XHTML 1.1
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Supported Device API Geo-location API
Protocol compliancy Gzip
HTTP/1.1
OMA Download 1.0
TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0
* Updates are distributed via Android market™.
Related information:
www.sonyericsson.com/developer
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Trademarks and acknowledgements
The Liquid Identity and Liquid Energy logos, PlayNow, TrackID, Xperia and Timescape are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. Sony, "make.believe", Exmor R and
Mobile BRAVIA Engine are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Corporation. Ericsson is a
trademark of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson.
The Bluetooth word mark and logos are owned by the Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by
Sony Ericsson is under licence. TrackID is powered by Gracenote Mobile MusicID. Gracenote and
Gracenote Mobile MusicID are trademarks or registered trademarks of Gracenote, Inc.
Google, Google Calendar, Google Gallery 3D, Google Latitude, Google Maps, Google Places, Google
Talk, Google Search, Google Sync, Google Mail, Picasa, YouTube, Google Voice, Android and Android
Market are trademarks or registered trademarks of Google, Inc. Facebook is a trademark or registered
trademark of Facebook, Inc. Twitter is a trademark or a registered trademark of Twitter, Inc.
Wi-Fi is a trademark or registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. DLNA and DLNA Certified are
trademarks or registered trademarks of the Digital Living Network Alliance. microSD is a trademark or
registered trademark of SanDisk Corporation. XHTML is a registered trademark of the W3C.
Microsoft, Windows, ActiveSync are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation
in the United States and/or other countries.
Adobe Flash is a trademark or registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States
and/or other countries. 3GPP™ is a trademark of ETSI.
Qualcomm and GPSOneXTRA are trademarks or registered trademarks of Qualcomm, inc.
All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.
Some features described herein require supporting services. Usage charges may apply for such services.
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