Sony has confirmed that they will be releasing the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for their 2012 Xperia lineup by the first half of 2013. The Sony Xperia T, Sony Xperia TX and the Sony Xperia V will reportedly receive the Jelly Bean update as early as the first quarter.

This will be followed by updates to the Sony Xperia S, Sony Xperia Acro S, Sony Xperia Ion, Sony Xperia P, Sony Xperia Go and Sony Xperia J. However Sony has still to reveal a time frame for these devices to get Android 4.1.

Unfortunately Sony is not planning on bringing Android 4.1 to their older 2011 Xperia lineup. While we do understand that supporting such a wide lineup of devices isn't practical, its disappointing that they wont benefit from the performance improvements of Jelly Bean.

Sony has been very generous with their Android updates, especially compared to their competitors. But we have to respect their decision and hope that the developer community to be quick to port Jelly Bean over to those older devices.


source – Sony

The Sony Xperia acro S features a 4.3 inch display, 16GB of internal storage which can be expanded through microSD, a 12 megapixel camera capable of 1080p HD video capture, a secondary camera for video calls, and is powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor.

The Xperia acro S may not be the best smartphone in the market, but its water resistant body may find it a strong fan base. Check out the video review of the Sony Xperia acro S which follows:




You can read the detailed review of the Sony Xperia acro S on PhoneArena.