It's Sony's turn, after Huawei claimed "fastest quad-core smartphone" title earlier today

Feb 26, 2012 17:59 GMT  ·  By

Second conference of the day  at the 2012 Mobile World Congress is Sony Mobile's.

Everyone's expecting them to announce new mobile devices, and I have got to say, I'm pretty excited myself.

Stay tuned for live info.

Xperia U and Xperia P smartphones announced!

Xperia P has an aluminum unibody design and the display features Sony's  WhiteMagic  brightness enhancement technology.

Also on board are an 8MP camera and NFC (near field communications) capabilities.

Xperia U has a dual-core 1GHz heart, 5MP camera, xLoud sound tehnology and a 3.5" display.

Both smartphones will be shipping in mid-Q2 2012.

As a nice bonus, the already known Xperia S is now available in Barcelona, one week earlier than expected.

That's it... see you in about an hour for HTC's event!

Update: press photo featuring both the Xperia P and Xperia U added to the gallery!

Update: Hands-on video available below.

SONY CONFERENCE AT THE 2012 MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS (11 Images)

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Outside the Sony Mobile MWC 2012 conference venueSony Xperia U and Xperia P
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