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Xperia™ active

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August 2011

Product overview

Xperia™ active

The Xperia™ active is the ultimate smartphone for an active life. The following are its key features: 

• Water and dust resistant with exchangeable covers

• Scratch-resistant, multi-touch screen with wet finger tracking

• Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA® Engine

• On-screen heart rate/pulse monitoring with ANT+* 

• Capture your adventures in HD video

Compact, resistant and adaptable

Dust resistant, water resistant (IP67)**, and protected with an aluminium frame, Xperia™ active is opti-
mized for your active lifestyle. If you missed a text or two while you were in the pool, you can scroll 
through your messages on the scratch-resistant mineral glass display, even if your fingers are wet. Pocket 
sized and optimised for one-hand use, it is optimised for your active life on the go. Xperia™ active can 
reinvent itself with a range of exchangeable covers – go back to black in the outback, or show off with 
fashionable white at work or at a party.

Your personal trainer

Xperia™ active is pre-loaded with sports apps to boost your performance.  Open the iMapMyFitness app, 
then hit the high peaks and monitor your progress. The ANT+ feature lets you gather data from a heart rate 
monitor. If that’s not enough, you’ve got a compass and GPS navigation to keep you on the right track. 
With all your fitness apps in one corner, and loads more available from Android Market™

***

, Xperia™ 

active is your on call personal trainer that you can count on to help achieve your fitness goals. 

Vibrant display for a vibrant life

Film your practice laps in 720 pixel resolution with HD video at 30 frames per second. Or watch mortal 
combat come to life in true colour on the sharp detail 3-inch HGVA Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA® 
Engine. Grab that stunning sunset view while making camp with friends at the top of the peak. It’s just a 
snap away with the 5 megapixel auto focus camera (with photo flash). 

Complete kit for your kitbag

Don’t train without the right equipment. Choose a phone with all the gear. The included kit comes with an 
extra white cover; a stereo headset and attachable ear hooks for pounding the pavements; an arm case 
and wrist strap to keep your phone close; a micro USB cable for managing your media; a 2G memory card 
for all your entertainment. 

* Requires ANT+ compliant chest belt for heart rate and pulse monitoring. Not included in the kit.
** It is according to International Protection Rating. IP67, implies that when the phone is correctly mounted 
to maintain its dust and water resistant qualities, there is no ingress of dust (digit 6) and that ingress of 
water (digit 7) in harmful quantity shall not be possible if the device is dropped in fresh water under up to 1 
m of submersion for a duration of maximum 30 minutes.

Summary of Contents for ST17i Series

Page 1: ...White paper August 2011 ST17i ST17a active...

Page 2: ...incidental or consequential damages of any nature including but not limited to lost profits or commercial loss arising out of the use of the information in this document This White paper is published...

Page 3: ...ure list 10 Technologies in detail 12 Device to device communications local 12 Bluetooth wireless technology 12 Wi Fi 13 DLNA Certified Digital Living Home Alliance 14 ANT 14 Messaging 15 MMS Multimed...

Page 4: ...navigation to keep you on the right track With all your fitness apps in one corner and loads more available from Android Market Xperia active is your on call personal trainer that you can count on to...

Page 5: ...r major offerings The average size if a representative selection of useful and fun applications is selected is about 1 MB This means that on average more than 100 applications can be downloaded and us...

Page 6: ...at friend Sony Ericsson Sync Your mobile life on the web Synchronise your phone data using Sony Ericsson Sync so that you always have a backup While you re at it match your phone contacts with your Fa...

Page 7: ...creen Colours 16 777 216 colour TFT Resolution 320x480 pixels Size diagonal 3 inches Scratch resistant Yes Input mechanisms Text input Quick text Zi On screen QWERTY and 12 key Touch screen Capacitive...

Page 8: ...800 Band V 1900 Band II 2100 Band I GSM GPRS EDGE 850 900 1800 1900 Data transfer speeds GSM GPRS GSM GPRS Up to 86 kbps GSM EDGE GSM EDGE Up to 237 kbps UMTS HSPA cat 6 upload 6 QPSK Up to 5 8 Mbps U...

Page 9: ...layer Sony Ericsson Timescape Sony Ericsson services Backup and restore Mac iSync plug in Mac Media Sync Media Go PC Companion PlayNow Arena Client PlayNow service Qriosity SOLS TrackID application So...

Page 10: ...ion xLOUD Internet Android Market Bookmarks Google search Google Voice Search Pan zoom Web browser WebKit Communication Call list Conference calls Facebook application Facebook inside Xperia 2 0 Googl...

Page 11: ...you your local weather forecast Entertainment 3D games Accelerated Adobe Flash Video Health mate iMapMyFitness Media browser Motion gaming Radio FM radio with RDS Radio FM Sony Entertainment Networks...

Page 12: ...son where applicable Device to device communications local Bluetooth wireless technology More information www sonyericsson com developer www bluetooth com Bluetooth profiles supported Advanced Audio D...

Page 13: ...Frequency band 2 4 GHz Data transmission rate Up to 72 Mbps Security CCMP AES EAP TLS EAP TTLS MSCHAPv2 Open Authentication PEAPv0 EAP MSCHAPv2 PEAPv1 EAP GTC Shared Authentication TKIP WEP 64 bit WE...

Page 14: ...the ANT device gathers for example iMapMyFitness Supported Device Classes M DMS Mobile Digital Media Server Media Types Images Summary The digital media server exposes the media files in your phone to...

Page 15: ...TS Character sets BIG5 Traditional Chinese ISO 2022 JP Japanese ISO 8859 1 ISO 8859 2 Eastern Europe ISO 8859 5 Cyrillic ISO 8859 7 Greek ISO 8859 9 Turkish KOI8 R Cyrillic Shift_JIS Japanese USASCII...

Page 16: ...LONASS NOTE GPS and GLONASS are used together to calculate the position With both systems active the accuracy and robustness of the positioning is better in most conditions The usage of GLONASS as an...

Page 17: ...le format 1 4 8 16 24 and 32 bpp and RLE encoded formats BMP bmp Single and multi frame bitmap mask support GIF87a format and GIF89a format GIF gif Joint Photographic Experts Group JPEG jpg Portable N...

Page 18: ...eria active 18 August 2011 Audio Video Streaming Streaming transport RTSP according to 3GPP HTTP streaming DRM DRM Digital Rights Management features the rights and copy protection of downloaded conte...

Page 19: ...pdates are distributed via Android market Related information www sonyericsson com developer Browser version Android 2 3 Browser Based on WebKit Navigation rendering Adobe Flash 10 3 Full page PC rend...

Page 20: ...or registered trademarks of Google Inc Facebook is a trademark or registered trademark of Facebook Inc Twitter is a trademark or a registered trademark of Twitter Inc Wi Fi is a trademark or registere...

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