White paper | Xperia™ M4 Aqua Dual Purpose of this document Sony Mobile Communications product White papers are intended to give an overview of a product and provide details in relevant areas of technology. Document history Version March 2015 First released version...
White paper | Xperia™ M4 Aqua Dual Product overview The all-terrain smartphone The Xperia™ M4 Aqua Dual boasts the highest waterproof and dust resistant rating as well as an exceptional up to 2-day battery life. This compact smartphone also includes a 13 Megapixel camera for taking photographs on the go and a 5 Megapixel camera for taking selfies.
White paper | Xperia™ M4 Aqua Dual Product specifications Operating system Google™ Android™ 5.0 (Lollipop) Processor Snapdragon 615 Octa Core processor (Quad-core 1.5 GHz + Quad core 1.0 GHz) Adreno 405 Size 145.5 x 72.59 x 7.3 mm Weight 135 grams Available colours Black White...
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White paper | Xperia™ M4 Aqua Dual * The E2312 has 3 GB of free memory (before you update preloaded applications) available to the user for downloaded applications and their data, music, pictures and movies while the device has up to 8 GB of flash memory in total.
HD video recording (1080p) xLoud™ Experience Image stabiliser Quick Launch Red-eye reduction Scene recognition Self-timer Send to web Superior Auto Smile Shutter™ Sony Exmor RS® for mobile SteadyShot™ Sweep Panorama Touch capture Touch focus Video stabiliser White balance Design Communication Messaging...
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Note the Xperia™ M4 Aqua Dual has a capless USB port to connect and charge. The USB port needs to be completely dry before charging. *** Sony Entertainment Network with Music Unlimited is not available in every market. Separate subscription required. Additional terms and conditions apply.
The information presented in this section is a general overview of the technology incorporated into the product. However, hardware and software levels of compliance to standards and specifications vary between products and markets. For more information, contact Sony Mobile Developer World or the relevant Sony representative.
White paper | Xperia™ M4 Aqua Dual Device-to-device communications (local) ANT+™ wireless technology Connectable devices Some ANT+™ compatible devices may require installa- tion of additional software. Frequency band 2.4 GHz Data transfer rate Up to 60 Kbps Encryption AES-128 Topologies One to Many, Many to One, Peer to Peer, Star, Practical Mesh Bluetooth®...
White paper | Xperia™ M4 Aqua Dual Wi-Fi® Supported standards IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n and Wi-Fi® Wi-Fi Direct®, Wi-Fi Protected Setup, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast™ Connectable devices Wi-Fi® access points Wi-Fi Direct compatible devices Frequency band 2.4 GHz / 5 GHz Data transfer rate Up to 150 Mbit/s Security Open Authentication...
White paper | Xperia™ M4 Aqua Dual DLNA Certified® (Digital Living Network Alliance) Supported Device Classes M-DMS – Mobile Digital Media Server Media Types: images, music and video Summary: The digital media server exposes the media files in your device to a Wi-Fi® network. The files can then be accessed from other DLNA CERTIFIED®...
White paper | Xperia™ M4 Aqua Dual Messaging MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) According to OMA Multimedia Messaging Service v1.0 + SMIL Email Bearer type (IP) GPRS, EGPRS, UMTS, Wi-Fi® Character sets BIG5 Traditional Chinese GB2312 Simplified Chinese GB18030 ISO-2022-JP Japanese ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-2 Eastern Europe ISO-8859-5 Cyrillic...
White paper | Xperia™ M4 Aqua Dual Positioning – location based services Supported standards: • OMA Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) v1.0 • 3GPP™ Control Plane location (including Emergency location), only supports E911 • Qualcomm® GPSOneXtra Provisioning (OMA CP) OMA CP version 1.1 July 2015...
White paper | Xperia™ M4 Aqua Dual Video Recording Encoder format Supported in file format - Video H.263 Profile 0, H.264 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4) Baseline Profile, H.264 High Profile - Audio: AAC-LC stereo Bit rate: 10 Mbps AMR-NB Audio/Video Streaming Streaming transport RTSP according to 3GPP™...
Paper is noted as such. Types of memory The types of memory described and numbered below are consistent with the terminology used in Sony mobile device menus and in other content relating to 2015 Xperia™ devices: 1. Dynamic Memory (also known as RAM) is used by applications that run when the device is turned on.
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3 GB or 11 GB of Internal Storage available out of the box. Please note that in Sony Mobile 2015 products, “Internal Storage” is now the combination of what was previously known as “Device Memory” or “Phone Memory” (for applications and their data – also previously known as “/data”) and “Internal Storage”...
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4. SD Card (known as “/ext_card” from a programmer’s point of view, or by other names in other Android products) is the name for the removable SD memory card in all 2015 Sony Mobile products. As described in the previous section, this External Card memory is generally more limited in that any application can read from it, but many applications cannot save to this card.
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White paper | Xperia™ M4 Aqua Dual Note 3: For a developer, it is important to note that from a programming point of view the location names used to refer to the different memory areas described in Note 1 are still valid, i.e., the area used for applications (“/ data”) is still present, as is the area used for content (“/sdcard”).
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