Plugged:
- The design, a bar made of high-end matte plastic with a transparent LED-lit plastic pane.
- A 4.3-inch screen that’s 1,280 pixels wide and promises the same BRAVIA image quality you would find on a Sony TV.
- The 12MP camera is a class leader, taking great pictures and HD videos.

Bugged:
- That transparent LED-lit pane may be pretty, but it’s otherwise pretty useless. You can’t click anything on it, and the three small LED-lit dots placed above it aren’t even that responsive.
- Despite taking good pictures, the video’s auto-exposure can go a bit nuts indoors.
- Android 2.3.7 is really disappointing. For a flagship phone, you’d think Sony would have used the latest Android OS (the bizarrely named Ice Cream Sandwich).
- The whole Playstation-certified thing is really a gimmick. The Xperia S is no Playstation Vita, and Crash Bandicoot has been out on iOS since forever.

Verdict:
With the award-wining Galaxy S II now only B17,000 (and the S III coming out soon), this is another case of too little too late from Sony.
B17,900. 4.3-inch BRAVIA screen (720 x 1280 pixels), 12MP camera with 720p front camera, dual-core 1.5GHz, Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread, 32GB built-in storage, 1,750 mAh battery.