The first 1080p smartphone from Sony Mobile is known as the Sony Xperia Z, which was first spotted in tech circles as the Xperia Yuga, is said to be lined up for an official announcement in a fortnight’s time – at CES 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is what we have gathered from ePrice, and after the Xperia Z’s official announcement at CES 2013, the smartphone should then roll out in China a week after that, where it will retail for approximately $690 after conversion.
From what we have gathered, the Xperia Z (Yuga) is powered by the Android Jelly Bean operating system, accompanied a 1920 x 1080 resolution 5” display, run on a quad-core 1.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, boasts of LTE and NFC connectivity, carries 2GB RAM, a 12-megapixel camera at the back with flash, and a microSD memory card slot. Not only that, it is also dust and water resistant, but not idiot proof. Image courtesy of ePrice.
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Each smartphone range will need to have a flagship in order to best represent the company’s particular expertise in various departments that make up a smartphone – both software and hardware. Well, Sony Mobile does seem to be working on more than one 2013 flagship models, and the Yuga is one of them, where it will arrive in Japan on NTT DoCoMo with the model number SO-02E. So far, we have only caught whiff of the Yuga’s international model number (C660X), but this is the Japanese version that we are talking about that has already passed the FCC’s test with flying colors, while we are treated to a schematic of the back of the handset.
Earlier this month, we saw more images of the 
Towards the end of October, photos of the Sony C6603 “Yuga” 
The latest camera sample leaks of the yet unreleased (obviously) Sony C6603 Yuga does point towards the very real possibility of this smartphone carry a 13-megapixel Exmor RS CMOS sensor alongside f/2.4 aperture. Not only that, it is said to run on Android firmware 10.1.A.0.270, which is deemed to represent Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean. All of this information was gleaned from a leaked Picasa sample photo, now how about that? I guess it makes sense for a 13-megapixel sensor to be in line with other high end specifications such as a quad-core Krait processor, don’t you think so?