Sony Xperia P review: a confident, middle-sized smartphone waiting for Android 4.0

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* [Sony Xperia S review][3]
* [Sony announces the Xperia P: Aluminum unibody, shipping Q2][4]
* [Sony pushing ICS to more devices next week, confirms Xperia Play won't be upgraded][5]

As the middle child from Sony Mobile's NXT family, the Xperia P steps out from behind the Xperia S' shadow with its own 4-inch screen -- and a touch of [WhiteMagic][6]. Screen technology aside, the phone's design follows a path very similar to Sony's latest flagship and picks up a few quirks of its own on the way. The see-through button strip is actually touch-sensitive on Sony's 2012 middle-weight -- a curious oversight on the bigger model.

It packs Sony's 8-megapixel Exmor R camera sensor (likely to be the same one found in the Xperia Arc S), a dual-core 1GHz processor and just under 13GB of user-accessible storage. But there's one unfortunate Xperia trait here -- we're still playing with Android Gingerbread, even while its ancestors begin to [dip their toes][5] into Ice Cream Sandwich. Does anyone want an incrementally smaller Android phone from Sony? And what exactly _is_ WhiteMagic and what does it mean for the battery life?

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