Review: A little Xperia Ray of sunshine

In a world of increasingly samey Android phones, Sony Ericsson drops the Xperia Ray. It’s pretty hard to make a mobile phone eye-catching or even desirable. Sure, the Jesus phone is attractive enough, but the Xperia Ray makes you want to pick it up and fondle it suggestively. It’s also pleasantly functional — after a disastrous fling with Microsoft and Winpho, the Andoid-based phones in the Xperia range are pretty good.

This phone is really small, and really powerful. If you’re hip and connected, and by hip I mean really, really hip, so hip that any bulge in your skinny jeans will cause instant social pariah-dom, then the Xperia Ray make a perfect sidekick. Less than a centimetre thick, and barely 10x5cm across, it’s slip-in-the-slacks compact, and yet big enough for the fantastically detailed screen to do the smartphone business.

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