It should land as an upgraded flavor of Sony's Xperia S

Jul 13, 2012 09:56 GMT  ·  By

Sony has been rumored lately to plan the release of a successor for its Xperia S smartphone, and the device allegedly made a photo appearance online.

The new device, supposedly called Sony Xperia SL, features model number LT26ii and is expected to arrive on shelves with a 1.7GHz dual-core Snapdragon S3 chipset (MSM8260) packed inside. Rumor has it that Sony will add some new colors to the device, and that users will be able to grab it all dressed up in pastel pink and some flavor of blue/violet as well.

The same as its predecessor, Xperia SL will be launched with Google’s Android platform loaded on it, most probably with Ice Cream Sandwich.

Unfortunately, the significant bump in processor speed is the only detail we have on the new handset so far, yet more should emerge in the not too distant future, so stay tuned.