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This week we"ve chosen a very complete and thorough Sony XPERIA S review by Neowin member Ambroos.
Lock and Applications screen on the Sony Xperia S with ICS.
Introduction
Hello fellow Neowinians! First I"d like to introduce myself. I"ve been a long time Sony (Ericsson) fan. I"ve never had any other phones, and after quite a long history I"ve arrived at the Xperia S. I"ve had it since launch date. I"m currently studying applied IT (which is a University College course including loads of Java, a bit of SQL, webdesign and assembler).
On holidays I work at The Phone House, the ex-Belgian branch of the UK-basec Carphone Warehouse, now part of a Belgian ISP. My job there isn"t selling mobiles, it"s selling the right mobiles for the right customer. I"m one of the only store employees not under commission, so I sell what people need, not what the sales team wants to sell. I try not to be biased in this, you"ll find me recommending a Nokia Lumia as well as a Samsung Galaxy Mini or a HTC One X just as easy as a Sony device. I do try to keep customers away from LG, I think everyone understands why.
ICS on the Sony Xperia S
On the 21st of June 2012, an otherwise unremarkable day, Sony started the rollout of the long-awaited (but never delayed) ICS update for the Xperia S. As some regions got it before others and I absolutely couldn"t wait, I flashed my phone with a Swiss software build to get the update from the first minute. Since it was only available on rapidshare I uploaded it to my own webserver, which got me a serious warning from my webhost since I managed to get over 2TB of traffic in under an hour.
Sony has been surprisingly quiet about the update. Where the devices from 2011 received two betas and a ton of information along the development process, Sony was completely silent about the Xperia S update. Just today we got the first bits of information from Sony, and they were quite minimal. After a few hours of thorough experimenting with the update I"ve found a lot of interesting things to show to you, things Sony chose not to brag about (even though they have a lot to brag about).
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Note: Neowin has also reviewed this device, you can check that out here if you missed it.
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