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what's going on Android lovers this is clayton young bird coming at you once again for your number one source for all things android android authority calm today we've got an unboxing of the brand new xperia ion by sony this is Sony's first 4G LTE smartphone this is available for AT&T we're just gonna go ahead and get into the unboxing check it out you can see right here on the side of the box we have our awesome little off spec sheet this has the Bravia Engine it is PlayStation Certified of course it has Wi-Fi what device doesn't these days anyways we've of course powered by Android we have a 12 megapixel camera with 3d panorama mode and we've got a 4.7 inch beautiful display on this so anyways let's just check out what comes in the box here a cool little message there texting and driving it can wait really awesome feeling phone will set this aside just for a second I'm very eager to play with this anyways the rest of the contents in the box we have our AC adapter our charger and then some information who cares about all that stuff let's check out this awesome Xperia ion pull off this little prompt here and we'll pull off the back in this well we've got a nice lens cover for our 12 megapixel camera which is always great to see they took the time to protect their beautiful Hardware anyways our four point six inch diagonally measured screen is going to be beautiful when we start it up so we will just hold the power button here get it going so you have awesome Sony now this has a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core processor it's got 16 gigabytes of internal memory and it has the microSD expansion slot one so anyways phones booted up it's awesome we're running Android 2 dot 3 so that's just a little bit behind the curve but the hardware more than makes up for that now the display on the Xperia ion is a 4.6 inch HD and they call it the reality display and this actually it looks great for HD content we have our HDMI port right here on the side of the body we've got many hdmi and then um mini USB for charging here's our camera a nice Xperia logo there on the side here we have our dedicated camera button we also have our volume rocker and our power on button up atop the device we do have our headphone jack three point five millimeters got a small mic here on bottom so let's do a quick look at the software of course we always have the full review after I've had plenty of time to get to know the device so we're not going to go into too much of the software specifics today anyways it looks like we have some nice native Sony widgets so my sony toggles there comes pre-loaded with AT&T apps as well as one might expect from an ATT 18t phone excuse me we do have our 4G on right now there are nice weather widget and scroll through we don't have infinite scrolling will go into our app drawer here so we have some file managers right there go back got our browser of course comes pre-loaded with Facebook it looks like a teen teen navigator all of our gmt apps go through go through the settings just check out basic theme for the settings we have our xperia dedicated settings of connectivity and then facebook inside xperia like i said earlier the phone is running the android 237 hopefully the season ICS update pretty soon and I'm sure after a little digging in the developer community we can get this phone rooted and show some ICS roms maybe even jelly bean but I'm not guaranteeing anything but stay tuned for that you guys anyways this is the sony xperia ion came with our sony xperia smart tags as well as we're going to be demoing those getting you a full review of the xperia ion and then testing out all of its hardware and software putting it up against some of the best devices out today as well that's including the samsung galaxy s3 also the LG optimus 4x HD if you guys ever have any requests go ahead and drop us a line leave us a comment or visit our website and tell us what you want to see anyways guys thanks for tuning in and stay tuned with android authority calm this is clayton yogurt