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The Sony Xperia Advance is finally here! After making a cameo appearance at the FCC in July this year, Sony is finally bringing the new smartphone in U.S. shores. The Sony Xperia Advance is an Android-driven smartphone that features a beautiful design and a durable, dust and water resistant body, thanks to its scratch-resistant display with wet finger tracking technology. The Sony Xperia Advance features a 3.5-inch Display with a 480 x 320 resolution. It is powered by 1GHz NovaThor U8500 dual-core processor and supported by up to 512MB of RAM and up to 8GB of internal storage.

Other notable features include a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and Autofocus  Bluetooth technology, microSD of up to 32GB, microUSB support, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, USB 2.0, 3.5 mm audio jack, and a 1305mAh Lithium ion battery. Perhaps the only downside is that it will come running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, although Sony says that it is upgradable to Ice Cream Sandwich. You can get the Sony Xperia Advance at Newegg and through other online retailers. Pricing starts at $299.99 for the unlocked model. The Sony Xperia Advance is available in tactile black, pure white, or warm yellow colors.

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The spiritual successor to last year’s Xperia Active has been given a performance boost. Now packing a dual-core 1GHz processor, Sony hopes it’ll manage to keep up with your surf-heavy lifestyle. At least, that’s the explanation we reckon underpins the Xperia go‘s (or Xperia advance) certified dust and waterproofing. The phone is notch above the Xperia miro and Xperia tipo hardware wise, although the software remains less so, leaning on the increasingly creaky Android Gingerbread. (Sony says it’s coming — but it wont be available on launch.)

Those curved corners and design lines bring it close to the aesthetic of the Xperia S, P and U — although it does lack that pervasive see-through bar. The increased processing power made web browsing a pretty painless affair, while wet finger tracking means you’ll still be able to use the 3.5-inch touchscreen in the British Summer surf. The device will be priced around £250 (around $390) in the UK and is pegged to arrive over the next few months in white, black and yellow — the latter has swiftly become our favorite. Take a visual tour of the yellow option in our gallery and hands-on video right after the break.

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