Phones Review Quickie: If you are one of the Sony Ericsson faithful over here in the United Kingdom and have your eye on picking up the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray smartphone, and your preferred carrier happens to be Vodafone, then you might like to know that yes the Xepria Ray handset will be offered by Vodafone in the not too distant future.

According to the guys over at Eurodroid, Vodafone UK now has a coming soon page for the Android packing Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray, a device which no doubt will be offered on Vodafone’s usual monthly tariffs, which could possibly see the device being offered as a free handset.

For those that just might be contemplating picking up the Xperia Ray, the smartphones offers a 3.3-inch capacitive touch screen, Sony Mobile Bravia Engine, an 8 megapixel Exmor R auto-focus camera with LED video light (not flash) with 720p video, a VGA front facing camera, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 300MB internal memory, 512MB RAM, microSD expansion up to 32GB, 3.5mm jack and runs the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray measures 111 x 53 x 9.4mm and weighs in at just 100 grams, and has a 1500mAh battery offering up to 7 hours talk time, and 440 hours standby time.

Obviously as Vodafone has only posted their Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray coming soon page, there’s no word on just when the Android smartphone will actually become available or for how much, however if you are interested in snapping up the device you can of course register for updates on the handset by hitting up here.