Sony Xperia S hits UK, carrier Three is the first to get it

The Sony Xperia S finally completed its journey to the UK and is now available for purchase. The first smartphone to ship with the Sony branding, rather than Sony Ericsson, is already offered by Three both on a contract and on a pay-as-you-go basis.

You can have the Sony Xperia S for free if you are willing to sign a contract on The One Plan worth ?30/month or ?36/month. That would give you all-you-can-eat data, 2,000 minutes and 5,000 texts and, of course, the chance to own the latest and greatest in the Xperia world.

Alternatively, the Sony Xperia S can be had with a pre-paid card, but you'll need to pay ?369.99 upfront. You'd need to spend ?15 or ?25 extra for either an All in One 15 or All in One 30 package, but you won't have to commit to Three long term.

Sadly, the Sony Xperia S is still unavailable at the Three UK online store, so you'll have to visit one of their brick and mortar stores if you want to get it, or just wait for a few days until it comes up.

The other major UK carriers are all expected to start offering the Sony Xperia S in the following weeks, but we are yet to learn more about the specific conditions each of them is going to be offering.

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ViewSonic shows three Android ICS dual-SIM phones

ViewSonic announced three new phones all of which run Android Ice Cream Sandwich and have two SIM slots. That might make them the first dual-SIM Android ICS phones, for what that's worth.

The best-specced of the three phones has a 3.5" Super Clear IPS LCD with 640x960 pixels resolution and is called - wait for it - ViewSonic 4s. Yeah, like that iPhone Apple have. Anyway, it also has a 1GHz processor and a 5MP camera.

The other phone is the ViewSonic 3GS, uh, 4e which has a 3.5" HVGA screen, 3MP camera and 650MHz and is 10.3mm thick.

With these names Viewsonic is obviously staking on the remote similarity to Apple products. It's really a ridiculous move and we can't quite wrap our heads around their concept. Ok, perhaps, not ridiculous, but kinda sad.

The third one isn't just a phone - the ViewSonic 5e has 5" WVGA screen and is more of a phoneblet, but just like the other two it has two SIM slots and runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

But whatever, Viewsonic should really stop playing with stuff they don't really understand. Every year the announce a bunch of weird looking phones at the MWC and then nobody hears anything about them. They should probably stick with their monitors.

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NEC is prepping three interesting LTE Android devices for the MWC

NEC may not be among the top cellphone manufacturers, but that's because its phones and tablets are sold exclusively in Japan. Soon this is likely to change as it seems NEC is preparing to showcase at least three devices at the MWC 2012 in Barcelona.

The info on those three is still scarce even the names are unknown (unless someone reads Japanese). As the insignias suggest all three of them will be part of the MEDIAS lineup.

The first one is a Sony Tablet P lookalike and is advertised as the "Best Cloud Device". The next one is "Large Screen in One-hand" and the last phone is "The Most Stylish". The latter is far from stylish, but we'll spare our comments until we get our hands on it.

All three NEC smartphones are LTE-capable and run on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. They were presented in a press conference in Japan, but will be showcased at the MWC 2012 in Barcelona. More details are coming for sure next week.

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