Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray ST18i / ST18a User Manual & Specifications

As far as We know, Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray is the newest version of Android Smartphone with quite large touchscreen –about 3.3 inches in diagonal diameter– that been released recently (Per September 2011, on the waiting list, there are others large screen smartphone by SE, such as Xperia arc S and Xperia neo V. We still waiting for the User Guide / User Manual of this devices released officially, therefore we can wrote the reviews for those Extended User Guide. For Sony Ericsson Xperia mini UG and SE Xperia mini Pro User Guide, we already shared and wrote the resume for two of them before. Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray also known as Sony Ericsson Urushi.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Manual User Guide ST18i Extended Specs Overview

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Manual User Guide ST18i Extended - Specs Overview

The picture that we gave you above, shown you two color options of body casing of Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray for Gold and Black ones. Actually Sony Ericsson ST18i (the series code of Xperia Ray) has two additional color beside the gold and black ones. They are Pink and White colors. For preview on this pink and white, you can see it on image that we embedded under “Specification” section Tab.

This Xperia Ray look slim and sleek due to the depth / thickness of this device only 9.4mm (about 0.4 inches: full dimension size: 111.0 × 53.0 × 9.4 mm | 4.4 × 2.1 × 0.4 inches). The touch candy bar form factor with simple button home screen make this phone, (our personal point a view) quite stylish and modern. With battery installed, the weight of this Sony Ericsson ST18i is about 100grams or 3.5 once.


Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Manual User Guide ST18i Extended Quick Resume

Every time we wanna write a review about the User Guide / Extended User Guide of Sony Ericsson Phone / Smartphone, there is always comes that the Manual only available for one Extended User Guide without any Quick Start Guide / Getting Started Guide.

How about the picture that we embedded below? It was just a picture of the content available in the Extended User Guide (EUG) of Sony Ericsson Xperia ray, that would help you to understand the parts and keys available in the body of the phone (Under sub-section of Phone Overview at page 11). Unfortunately there is no description of the function of each keys in EUG except for Back, Home and Menu Keys.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Manual User Guide ST18i Extended Keys Parts Front Rear Panel Layout Resume

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Manual User Guide ST18i Extended - Keys Parts Front Rear Panel Layout - Resume

Almost all User Guide /EUG of Sony Ericsson Phone consist of explanation and tutorial how you can use all the features available in the phone, including the preloaded application, how you can type a message, how you can make a call and how to customize your phone.

You can also leran how to connects the Bluetooth to other device and pairing it, learning to know how to use the Wi-Fi, using Barcode scanner via NeoReader applications, how to connect your Xperia ray to PC or Laptop using Media Go or PC Companion (you must download and installed first in your Windows Platform OS, click here to download), and more.

To reset your phone to its original settings just like you first time turning it on / power it on after you bought it from the market, you can use the Factory Data Reset option (aka Master / Hard Reset). Here how to do these Factory Reset: Home Screen > Menu > Settings > Privacy > Tab Factory Data Reset > Mark Erase SD Card check-box > Reset Phone > Confirm > Tab Erase Everything. Done


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Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray ST18i Specifications

The 3.3 inches display has WVGA resolution (854 x 480 pixels) and uses LED backlit LCD Capacitive Touchscreen with 16M colors (about 297 ppi pixel density). Sony Ericsson Bravia Engine, Accelerometer Sensor and Proximity Sensor for Auto Orientation rotation and save power by turning the screen of automatically while calling, multi touch input method, Timescape User Interface and also Scratch Resistant display are some of features comes along with the Display screen.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Overview on Youtube

As a smartphone, the 3G HSDPA up to 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA 5.8 Mbps also supported in this Xperia ray. The HSDPA frequency for Data Networks divided into two version on SE XPeria Ray, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray ST18i uses HSPA2100 and for Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray works under HSDPA 850/ 1900/ 2100. It depend on your Carrier Provider. Of course Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA Certificate, Wi-Fi Portable hotspot, Bluetooth plus EDR for version 2.1microUSB version 2.0, GPRS, EDGE also supported.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Manual User Guide ST18i Extended Specifications

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Manual User Guide ST18i Extended - Specifications

For the “brain” of this Xperia ray, it installed with 1GHz Scorpion MSM8255 Snapdragon chipset CPU with Adrno 205 GPU. Along with this 1GHz Processor speed, the 512MB RAM and 1GB ROM also included. For the internal memory user available, the 300MB and microSD for external memory up to 32GB with 4GB included in the box are quite space enough to store any data, photos, or videos in this SE XPeria Ray.

The Android Operating System version 2.3 aka Android Gingerbread running on this device along with Google preloaded Applications such as Google Maps, GTalk, GMail, Google Navigation, Google Search, Search by Voice, YouTube, Android Market and more. MP3, MP4, WMV, H.264, H.263, WAV, eAAC+, are some formats of Video and Audio Music capable to be played in this device.

For The Camera, it has dual camera in front of panel body for Video calling uses VGA camera and the main rear camera attached with 8 Megapixel Camera with Geo tagging support (uses GPS with AGPS supports), Face and Smile detections, Image stabilzer, LED Flash light for Video Light and Photo Flash light, Auto Focus, Touch to focus, and capable to create HD Video Recording up to 720p. FM Radio and Digital compass also available.


Table of Contents of Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Manual ST18i Extended User Guide

Important Information
Android what and why?
Getting started
Getting to know your phone
Calling
Contacts
Messaging
Email
Google Talk
Sony Ericsson Timescape
Getting started with Android Market
PlayNow service
Getting organized
NeoReader Application
Synchronising
Connecting to wireless networks
Web browser
Music
TrackID technology
FM Radio
Taking photos and recording videos
Viewing your photos/ videos in gallery
Bluetooth wireless technology
Connecting your phone to a computer
Location services
Locking and protecting your phone
Updating your phone
Phone settings overview
Icon overview
Application overview
User support
Troubleshooting
Legal information
Index


Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Manual User Guide ST18i Extended PDF Download for English Spanish German Italian

On page 8 and 9 of the Extended User Guide of Sony Ericsson Xperia ray ST18i under “Getting Started” chapter, you can get the same images tutorial like the ones that we gave you below. It would help you to assemble the battery, learning to open the back battery cover casing properly, Inserting SIM Card and installing microSD 4G included external storage, Remove the SIM or MicroSD Card, and also how to charging, how to power on, how to connects the phone to PC in proper ways.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Manual User Guide ST18i Extended Open Remove Back Cover Casing Install SIM Card Insert MicroSD External Storage Memory Power On Assemble Charging Battery Connect PC PDF Download

Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray Manual User Guide ST18i Extended - Open Remove Back Cover Casing Install SIM Card Insert MicroSD External Storage Memory Power On Assemble Charging Battery Connect PC - PDF Download

We gave you five alternative download language of Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray ST18i ( can be applied also for ST18a): The English Version, Spanish, Italiano, and German (Deutsch). Actually we also wanna provide the French version language but it seems that the download link (the file) not complete aka error, that why we decided to excluded this French version. But if you wanna download the french version, you can click here.

  • Download Manual Extended User Guide of Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray ST18i | Language: English | Page: 119 | PDF Size: 6.31MB
  • Download Manual Extended User Guide of Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray ST18i | Language: Spanish | Page: 123 | PDF Size: 6.33MB
  • Download Manual Extended User Guide of Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray ST18i | Language: German | Page: 126 | PDF Size: 6.34MB
  • Download Manual Extended User Guide of Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray ST18i | Language: Italian | Page: 123 | PDF Size: 6.33MB
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Comments

  1. cliff says

    The information would have been very helpful if it was edited and proofread well. There were many lapses that made the readers more confused.

  2. AMARJIT SINGH says

    my xperia ray phone is very nice. my problum no back & menu butten. ithink crack a screen. please help me..

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