The official word is that Sony Ericsson will unveil the new Xperia series smartphones on February 13. Chinese Sony Ericsson Fans Forum IT368 member leaked images of a compact Xperia smartphone running Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
This phone is said to be an Xperia X10 Mini & Mini Pro successor with 3-inch display and the hardware buttons in reverse order.The leaked unnamed Sony Ericsson Xperia phone has about 3-inch 320x480 screen. This device was running Google's recently announced Android 2.3 Gingerbread update. Under the hood this phone is said to have 1GHz Scorpion Core based Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8255 chipset along with an Adreno 205 GPU. The Quadrant score (1533) of this device showed that it outperformed even the Nexus One running Android 2.2 Froyo update and left Galaxy S far behind.
This might be the third Xperia series phone along with X12 ANZU and the recently spotted mysterious Xperia device to be unveiled at MWC 2011.
Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 Mini and Mini Pro are good Android devices, but they are found lacking when it comes to the latest update. Both phones come with stock Android 1.6 update, while the Android 2.1 Eclair update for them was released just last month.
