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hi I'm Kent chairman section editor for cnet com I'm coming to you from CES 2012 here at the scene at stage in Las Vegas want to show you the Sony Xperia S is one of two phones of sony announced here now sony ericsson no longer sony's that dropped the ericsson moniker so it's not just Sony but we still have a lot of the stuff we've become to love from Sony phones like really good design great just playing some good multimedia on this phone so I'll walk you through a little bit of it design is very slick I did like it at this cool is you can actually stay on the phone on its end so it stands up by itself but it does have this nice curved back side so it's nicely in the hand really like how the phone feels also has a little bit of a nice material on the back it's not quite soft touch doesn't feel like a cheap plastic actually it's a weighty comfortable feel one thing you need to make about this design it does have the slighted bar down at the bottom now it's almost transparent I guess you call it OH peg because if you hold it up to window you can actually see the light through but wholesome antenna components and it also lights up it does display some touch controls which are actually right about Sony is saying that as this phone is all about its iconic identity design so what that means is that they've added some things into the display you can see the sort of flowing interface that just sets it apart from some other Xperia phones the phone is running on gingerbread and will be upgradable ice cream sandwich at some point nice display have 4.3 inches 720p resolution it is Sony's reality display on this really good video like the photo I like the photo viewfinder you do have a 12 megapixel camera on the back that is a 1080p resolution you have a second cam around front you can use that for vanity shots or for video calling that is a 720p resolution does have sony Timescape interface at takes your contacts includes all their communication is sort of a flip card interface you can just blow right through it camera one thing interesting is it does have 1.5 seconds between shots so it's a very very quick shutter and this is the highest resolution camera on an android phone at the moment the phone does have an HDMI out port see that here above the volume rocker and a camera shutter up top is a power control and the 3.5 millimeter headset jack media really looks great but I just really like to design like the multimedia features on this phone and hopefully we'll get it up to ice cream sandwich at very soon I'm Ken Sherman here at CES 2012 with the Sony Xperia S you