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Sony Xperia J

Android smartphone model

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ400356
Source-derived summary

The Sony Xperia J is an Android smartphone from Sony. It was launched at the IFA 2012 in Berlin. It is also known as Sony ST26i.

Specifications

Design

Xperia J is the first Sony Mobile device alongside the Xperia V that does not feature the Sony Ericsson's liquid energy logo after Sony acquired Ericsson's stake in Sony Ericsson in February 2012. The display is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass. It is available in black, gold, pink and white. It measures 124.3 mm × 61.2 mm × 9.2 mm and weighs 124 grams.

Hardware

Xperia J has a 4.0 in (100 mm) touchscreen with 480×854 resolution, a Qualcomm Snapdagon S1 system-on-chip with 1 GHz single core Cortex-A5 CPU and Adreno 200 GPU, a 5-megapixel rear camera, 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of internal storage which can be extended up to 32 GB by a microSD/HC card, and a 1750 mAh battery.

Software

Xperia J runs on Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box. Sony updated this device for Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean on 7 March 2013, which it lists as the "latest and final version" of the operating system.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sony Xperia J” as android smartphone model. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 1750, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2012-08-29. The account is most persuasive where Sony, Xperia and Android can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q400356. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012, 1750 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from Sony Xperia J” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.