Xperia Arc vs Arc S – Which Arc Do You Prefer?

Sony is one of the best companies well known around the word for its uniqueness in smartphones.  They have produced many devices of different series among which Xperia is one of the bests. Two of its creations the Xperia Arc vs Arc S, are up for comparison today. Comparing both these models is not easy because they both come with same quality touchscreen support, top quality camera and excellent features.

The Xperia Arc was released on the month of March 2011 in colors of Midnight Blue and Misty Silver. On the other hand, Xperia Arc S was first seen on the month of September 2011 in colors of Pure White, Midnight Blue, Misty Silver, Gloss Black and Sakura Pink. Let us now find out differences in specifications between them.

Specifications of Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc:

• 125 x 63 x 8.7 mm, 117 grams
• 4.2 inches, LED-backlit LCD, capacitive touchscreen
• 480 x 854 pixels, 16 million colors, Scratch-resistant glass
• Android OS v2.3 (Gingerbread), 1 GHz Scorpion
• 8 megapixel Camera , 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
• 320 MB internal storage, 512 MB RAM, MicroSD, up to 32GB
• GPRS, EDGE, WLAN, Bluetooth, USB
• MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 player
• MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA player
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
• Standby and Talk times of 415 hours and 7 hours approximately.

Specifications of Xperia Arc S:

• 4.2 inches, LED-backlit LCD, capacitive touchscreen
• 480 x 854 pixels, 16 million colors, Scratch-resistant glass
• 125 x 63 x 8.7 mm, 117 grams, Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine
• Android OS v2.3.4 (Gingerbread), 1.4 GHz Scorpio
• 8 megapixel Camera , 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
• 1 GB internal storage, 512 MB RAM, MicroSD, up to 32GB
• GPRS, EDGE, WLAN, Bluetooth, USB
• MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
• MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
• Standby and Talk times of 460 hours and 7 hours approximately.

Specifications of both these smartphones are quite similar to each other with only one difference between them. The Xperia Arc comes with an operating system of Android version 2.3 (Gingerbread), planned upgrade to v4.0 on a CPU of 1 GHz Scorpio processor, Adreno 205 GPU chipset.

On the other hand, the Xperia Arc S accompanies an excellent operating system of Android version 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) v4.0.4, not upgradable to v4.1 along with a CPU of 1.4 GHz Scorpio processor, Adreno 205 GPU chipset.

Overall the Xperia Arc vs Arc S are quite similar to each other in terms of specifcations. The better smartphone between the two is the Xperia Arc S because it occupies the latest technology with better operating system.