TC@MWC: Hands-On With The Sony Xperia U
Besides a fear of imminent conjunctivitis from handling the same phone as hundreds of others at the Sony Xperia Press Event at the GSMA Mobile World Congress...what else comes to mind?
This phone — a model marketed mostly toward a younger segment — is, to me, reminiscent in some minuscule way of the old Sony W series phones I loved so much (way back in the day). I think it's the thickness that reminds me of its Cro-Magnon predecessor.
source: techcrunch.com
26 Feb 2012
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