Sony C6603 ‘Yuga’ pictures leak

Awesome! now that what we called as Note II killer and perfect phablets with sexiest design after all. Two thumbs up.! in Sony, we believe.

What ?
It’s an LG OPTIMUS G ! My god, exact likeness.

I bet it will be called the Xperia Ts… What an uninspired black slab. There are two reasons why I might buy an Xperia: Unlockable bootloader, and the outstanding design. This thing is just as bulky as the Xperia T.

Props for the glass back though, the Arc is beautiful but poorly built, and this will be boring but have good build quality.

They can’t put it on every phone. Diversifying.

If tomorrow hits the selves, yes I’d love to buy it.. but after 4-6 months… yup yup yup yup… no thanx!

My thoughts exactly. I just don’t understand SONY logic and strategy sometimes.
The only thing that kept them alive on market in recent years is now being brutally slaughtered. Are they trying to appeal to people with plain uninspiring bricky design, that Samsung and Apple overused and overproduced till now? Because, if they do, they will fall short I’m sure. XPERIA’s design in general is true trademark, because these phones really stand out from crowd when it comes to design (Arc S user here). But now, that trademark is easily being washed out more and more.
Regarding this phone… Well, I will never, never ever, buy a phone like this. Just another copy-pasted unoriginal design, with just different brand sticked to housing.
Get your act together Sony.

Hasn’t the Yuga supposed to have a 6inch screen and the Odin the 5inch screen. Makes me wonder if the pics are real or the info is wrong hopefully the latter

It looks like a much nicer and larger version of Sony’s X-series walkman. And obviously a phone, rather than an mp3 player. I like it! They just need to make version that works for Verizon Wireless.

Boy its combined design of arc nd nxt series. Pics not clear.
It will mark a new design series.

I love the design! It looks like a big version of the lovely Sony Walkman X (pic: http://bitly.com/T4GFsH ) which also had a glass back: http://bit.ly/XkTCDK – would be nice if Sony could use the material from the Walkman X on the Yuga. It’s a very nice stone-like material that really feels very solid.

Can’t wait! Lovely understated design.

A special larger button would be nice for the camera shutter, but for the On/Off button it’s quite weird, i don’t like it

However 5-inch phones look so stupid and simply too oversized to just carry around.

Am I the only one in here who actually likes simple black rectangular phones ?

Im buying. but curious about concurrent flagship (odin?). Glass back is very nice also.

4.6 is already enough and 5 inches in my opinion are overkill, i mean for a smartphone that size.. Smartphones are meant to fit inside the pocket and provide accessibility to the user. not hassle the user carrying it always.. well just my opinion..

Sony design has always been about creating incredibly simplistic and beautiful products for the end user. The likes of apple took design ideas from Sony:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/26/3189309/apple-sony-iphone-design-inspiration-iphone-4-looked-old
Take a look at the current flagship Vaio and Bravia range, you find very angular and precise, monolithic design products. The lower end products from Sony generally feature more curves e.g. Vaio E series and EX televisions to hide the extra bezels and overall thickness to give a premium , thin and ergonomic, feel to their products. As Sony Mobiles hardware arm becomes more proficient they are able to thin down their phones, and create sleeker products.
So where does that leave the fans of the arc and curvy designs? Well feature phones such as waterproofed devices may still sport the designs, as well as budget handsets. But this is sony mobile design going forward, this is what the mass market consumer wants due to the appleification of the universe.

And release it very very very very quickly!!!! Early 2013 would be Excellent!!!

Awesome design.camera button make me remind my old SE Cybershot.and me hope sony dont use sim type nano.i really disgusting

Micro SD card= Take my FUCKING MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The best part of all these photos? The fact that this guy is using a Samsung phone to take them!

Had that; I must agree with you that it felt really solid and tough on my hand. Sadly the 3.5 jack is broken and I can’t find any place to fix it in my country (bought it overseas).

Finally, a 5″ phablet from Sony! But with a grass back, does that mean it would be as fragile as iPhone 4? (My girl frd has dropped her iPhone 4 a while back and costed me HK$1,1XX to fix it….)

It’s hard to tell from these pics but this model can prove a real stunner live. I terribly miss the transparent bar of the NXTs but if you combine simple, understood shapes and premium materials, you have a good design. I hate to admit it but iPhone proves it. This design seems to follow this design philosophy and yet it still looks unmistakably Sony to me. Bring it on!

I would really love to have glowing xperia logo on the front part just like the one in TX as well.. without xperia logo in the bottom it just looks too simple..anyway, definitely gonna replace my Ion with this one! was about to get TX, but can’t help to wait for this one

shit

THIS WOULD HAVE TO BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SMARTPHONE EVER IN 2013

You are wrong, You don’t have to keep it in cover at all. This is your decision.

However, i liked designed glass back of iP 4/4S, through im happy of “yuga” design.

I hope Sony is working on new better UI.. with multi-window multi-tasking

beautiful sony…..

Those who have a negative point are blind.

Same as Odin/Yuga. APQ8064 2GB RAM (maybe 1 or 1.5GB, unsure), but otherwise exactly the same, but with 720p display

All you arc loving chaps should understand that the curve was due to Ericsson.
Sony designs are always monolithic and bland which is what sells best. The over stylish nonsense we saw with the arc and to a lesser extent the T appeal to a small minority.
Most high end smart phone users are male and over stylish doesn’t suit for most.
Evidence can be seen in the strong sales of the x10 and the xperia s while the arc was not really successful and I don’t see the T doing that well either.
Thank God that arc curvature feminine nonsense is gone and for good I hope.
Coming back to this phone, if it launches with 4.1, Sony can keep it. The HTC butterfly looks just as impressive (maybe even better) in the design stakes and the global variant of that would be released next year with nothing short of 4.2. Then we have the GS4 to come as well.
There’s no way I buying a phone next year only to start waiting for software updates again. No chance especially not with Sony.
Having said that it’s hardware looks good enough but once again I fear Sony have rtm their device too early, there is probably a 1.8 or 2 ghz s4 pro around the corner which will probably make into the HTC’s and others next year.
1.5 ghz s4 pro is more than enough but that’s not the point. Sony will just look like they are behind again on software and hardware. Perception counts for a lot
For me personally, the deal breaker would be 4.1 on this phone. I won’t accept that. Sorry Sony

Could U share your experience with TX…???:)

So much illogicality to be replied to.
1. Curves are girly, and bricks are male, in tech world?
2. Sony’s phone designs were actually not one of their stronger selling points in past, but ultimate hardware supremacy over the concurents instead?
3. Xperia Arc/S was not successful, and X10 and S are?
(X10 and S are praised for being one of the most beautiful phone designs ever, while Arc recieved almost no attention from tech sites, blogs, mags. Ha-ha.)
Well, clicking down arrow on your post will do the job.

I agree. And I must ask ‘roeshak’ how is Android 4.2 such an important purchasing incentive? It doesn’t improve much from 4.1 and one of its highlights, Swype style keyboard has been available for Xperia handsets since last year. I much more prefer Sony optimizations like their excellent keyboard enhancements rather than making such a fuss for such a minor update. We don’t need the latest version of Android just for the sake of it and just because Google comes up with a new version so often as to have manufacturers running like headless chicken to catch up. Overall experience counts.

Sony, for the white version, please make the front white too; just like the white Xperia X10.

IT IS NOT GLASS

hmm there are conecters for a dock.. is it waterproof?

That’s an Apple prototype for the iPhone. Jobs liked Sonys design and asked for some mockups.

oh shit,i think it will be a great looking phone with pure white color….

What a fool, your reply was just re-enforcing what I was saying. The Arc received no attention because it wasn’t appealing to most. I’ve only ever heard fanboys in here describe the arc design as iconic. Some icon indeed that nobody was interested in.

If you don’t think the arc was the most feminine looking smartphone ever designed then you’re probably one of the man bag carrying jokers who spend hours in the salon putting highlights in your hair and pruning your nails. Joker!

That phone was as girlie as girlie could possibly be. The 4s and gs2 were bricks with rounded corners while the arc just had too fucking much going on like a chick spending hours to get ready for a night out.

I’m not going to waste my time responding to your comment any more because it was confused and jumbled like you didn’t even understand what I was saying.

How can you attack someone for saying one thing and then repeat the same thing in your counter argument. Stupidity

Also I forgot to add…Sony are known for their hardware supremacy…that’s got to be funniest joke I’ve ever heard. I literally pissed myself when I read that. looooooool

it is

im loyal customers whose been f*** by sony many times. seriously, i love sony product but until now. they suck. eventhough, Xperia S which i use looks awesome, slick etc. the performance of this phone suck. if you multitask to much. it will blow, lag and freeze. really piss me off and the price isn’t reasonable too -.-

Last chance sony, give us a high-end premium device with a reasonable price. 4’6 S4 pro, 2gb ram, Newer Camera sensor (Iphone 5 camera sensor is from sony but still the quality of image is better than those Xperia’s camera), price reasonable and its a thumbs up

false advertisement on their part then

Why it is going to have only 12MPx camera !!!! ???? I hate 4:3 size pictures, it has black borders while watching on the smartphone’s screen! They should give the latest 13MPx sensors they have! 12MPx is older technology, I don’t want it! I don’t want to wait for their next device until 2014 with 16:9 camera in the full size! What a crap!

At least there is dedicated camera button… What about waterproof and battery size?

“Not even man enough”! “Seeking refuge”! Hahahaha.
Oh Lord…

Sorry 4.1 was mainly a performance bump (project butter) on ICS. Apart from google now there weren’t any new fetures in 4.1. 4,2 on the other hand has a revamped notification tray, lock screen and also significant improvements to google now. Not to mention the camera and other performance bumps.

Your argument is one I’ve heard from fanboys for years and I’m sorry only a fanboy can say something like I prefer sony’s software enhancements that just cause needless lag above googles work. Shot yourself in the foot there mate.

I put it to you that the vast majority of the tech sites and blogs will care indeed that sony’s 2013 line up are starting with 4.1 and not 4.2.

Let’s even put aside what improvements there in 4.2, that’s not really the point. What matters is that Sony’s 2013 line will look once again like 2012 phones being released late. Perception counts for a lot and the standard which would be set by other top manufactures will include 4.2 and it’s looking like Sony will fall short of that. HTC are making the kind of comeback with the J butterfly that we’ve been hoping to see from sony now for sometime but to no avail.

Samsung have an iconic brand which will sell well regardless of how good or poor it really is so let’s forget Samsung for now. They dominate the smartphone game. Rightly or wrongly.

There is a very inward closed minded attitude which you find anomgst Sony fanboys and as is becoming very clear now, with Sony itself.

They are going to pursue the same strategy they used this year by flooding the market with phones and then abandoning them shortly after release to move on to the next release. Who the hell wants that apart from a fanboy.

What I will say to Sony is that this strategy will fail miserably next year. They had some success with the xperia S this year because many gave them the benefit of the doubt which has now been used up completely.

I predict a very poor trading year for Sony mobile in 2013 just like they had in 2011 which forced the Sony takeover. Trouble is they have no where else to turn, they can’t rebrand again.

My advice to Sony is , either embrace Android fully and do right by it or just drop it and move on to windows phone 8 which their philosophy and strategy sits more comfortably with. It’s pretty obvious to me that they deliberately stay one or even two OS’s behind to restrain this very rapidly evolving platform.

The NXT line and the new ‘arc’ line was developed when Sony Ericsson was still around. You can see that from the early prototypes of these phones have Sony Ericsson badge on them. The prototype TX we saw long time ago have SE badge, Xperia S’s early prototype “Nozomi” have SE badge on as well.
I’m not arguing with you, I’m just pointing things out

Ah. The Chrome power button reminds me of the shutter found on the older Cybershot K810i.

I hope the UI is changed ! bored with the existing one

Does anyone else think that this design looks very similar to the original iPhone concept? Especially with the large silver side button? Also, this has a glass back, something very uncharacteristic in Sony Design. This could possibly be because it is the first 100% Sony Mobile designed phone, or that this was a rejected Nexus designed phone that is still coming to market.

I think so!!! @@

well, i was hoping for non-removable battery, at least 32GB hard drive with no expansion slot at all, quad core (just give me 1.3ghz. that’s adequate), 13mp exmor R camera and waterproof, dust proof, weather proof, maybe if you could, fire proof, storm proof, earthquake proof and bankruptcy-for-buying-another-new-phone proof. i never care about the design. they’re always beautiful anyway. oh, and a good speaker. i’m pretty deaf. i want something that can do what my xperia s could do and more.