The recently announced Xperia S is now available to pre-order in the UK. The Xperia S is the first phone to be released from Sony following their buy out of Ericsson from the joint venture and looks set to continue in the steps of the 2011 Xperia range.

Clove have announced that they will be selling the Sony Xperia S in black starting from March 5th 2012. The sim free price for the Xperia S is £467.99 through Clove, while Play have the release date down as March 6th and a price tag of £449.99. You can also pre-order the Sony Xperia S from ebuyer for £429.99 but, they have an expected release date of March 12th.

Several PlayStation Portable (PSP) titles for ‘PlayStation Certified Devices’ have appeared on the ESRB – Entertainment Software Rating Board that will add to the previously released PlayStation One titles that are currently available through the PlayStation Certified program.

Titles such as flOw, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror, Daxter are listed along with a range of Pinball Heroes games inspired by previously released Sony titles including UnCharted, Hot Shots Golf, ModNation Racers and MotorStorm. The games should be available to play on the Xperia Play, Xperia Arc, Xperia Acro (and Acro HD), Xperia S and Xperia ion along with the two Sony tablets , the S and the P tablets, which are both PlayStation Certified devices.

If you’ve signed up to receive emails from Sony Ericsson, either through their support website or forums, or through Facebook chances are you may have received an email from them recently offering you so much off an Xperia Arc S or Xperia Ray.

While this initially sounds like great news, there are unfortunately two failings to this promotion. Firstly, my partner received an email offering 10% off the purchase price of an Xperia Arc S, or a Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray but, I then received an email offering me only 5% off with a different promotional code. A bit later on, another email that I’ve used with Sony Ericsson also received the email, this time with a 15% discount.

After writing two Xperia based songs, YouTube user and Xperia fan Domothy85 has created a third video to show his love for all things Xperia.

His latest video is based on Maroon 5′s Moves Like Jagger and has been reworded to showcase the new Xperia. The video was filmed at CES where Sony announced the Xperia S but, Domothy85 has said on his music video information that the song was actually written before Sony announced the phone and was fortunate enough to be flown out to Las Vegas for CES 2012 by Sony Ericsson to witness the unveiling of the new flagship phone!” He also notes that all footage and photos were taken on the Xperia Arc or Xperia Ray, minus two Google images.

Alongside the other two ‘hardware’ additions to the Sony Xperia Smart Extras range, Sony have also announced the arrival of exciting new product – Xperia SmartTags into the Smart Extras family.

SmartTags are basically tags that use NFC (near field communication) technology to communicate with any Android smartphone capable of using NFC. The Xperia SmartTags can be configured to change the profile on a mobile handset when the phone touches the tag. As an example, you could take one tag and configure it so that when you swipe it with your phone, the tag changes the phone profile to turn on WiFi, turn the phone onto silent, open an app and so on.

Hot on the heels of announcing two high spec smartphones at CES, Sony have now released details of two equally high specification smartphones that will be available for the Japanese market only.

The Xperia acro HD will be the ‘successor’ to the already released Xperia acro in Japan and will also be packed with the ‘made for Japan’ features that we saw on the acro such as Mobile TV and Mobile Wallet (via Felica).

Also released in Japan will be a variation on the smartphone released elsewhere in the world, the Xperia S. Entitled the Xperia NX in Japan, the handset will basically feature similar specs to that of the Xperia S.

Xperia acro HD Specifications:

• 4.3 inch HD display,1280 x 720