Sony Ericsson launches the Xperia neo V and the Xperia Pro in India.

Sony Ericsson has announced the official launch of the latest entrants in their Xperia series of smartphones, the Xperia neo V and the Xperia Pro. The Xperia Pro continues the trend of the earlier ‘Pro’ versions of the smartphone i.e. the Xperia Mini Pro and the X10 Mini Pro and has a slider keyboard but the major change is the screen size that will be a massive 3.7-inch with a resolution of 854 x 480 pixels. It runs on a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and has an 8 megapixel camera with LED flash. The camera supports HD recording as well. Sony Ericsson has also bundled in a VGA front camera for video calling and self portraits.

Below are the specifications of the Xperia Pro:

1.> 3.7-inch LED-Backlit touchscreen with 480 x 854 pixels resolution
2.> 3G, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Hotspot, DLNA
3.> GPS with A-GPS support
4.> Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP
5.> 8 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED Flash
6.> VGA secondary camera
7.> HDMI Port
8.> 3.5 mm audio jack
9.> Stereo FM Radio with RDS
10.>Internal Memory of 1 GB, expandable to 32 GB

The neo V on the other hand, has a 1GHz processor and a 5 megapixel rear camera. The front camera will be a VGA one. Both phones will run on Google’s 2.3 Gingerbread operating system.

Below are the specifications of the Xperia neo V:

1.> 3.7-inch LED-Backlit touchscreen with 480 x 854 pixels resolution
2.> 3G, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Hotspot, DLNA
3.> GPS with A-GPS support
4.> Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP
5.> 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED Flash
6.> VGA secondary camera
7.> HDMI Port
8.> 3.5 mm audio jack
9.> Stereo FM Radio with RDS
10.>Internal Memory of 320MB, expandable to 32 GB

Sony Ericsson has also collaborated with Bharti Airtel to offer customers with 500 MB/month of free 3G/2G data usage for the first three months and free Mobile TV for 200 minutes or 2 months, whichever is earlier. The Xperia neo V is priced at Rs. 18,500 and the Xperia Pro is priced at Rs. 23,990. Now, that Ice Cream Sandwich has released, perhaps we can expect the Xperia Pro and neo V to get an update somewhere down the line. Stay tuned for the review of the Xperia Pro soon.