If you are down under in Australia and in the market for an Android based smartphone from the Sony camp, you might like to know that you can now put in a pre-order for the Sony Xperia Sola smartphone, formally known as the Sony Xperia Pepper MT27i, as an unlocked handset.

According to Prwire, the Sony Xperia Sola sports a 3.7-inch 854 x 480 pixel scratch resistant touch screen,with Mobile Bravia Engine , a 1GHz dual core processor, a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with flash and 720p video, FM radio, WiFi with hotspot functionality, Bluetooth, AGPS, DLNA, NFC and a 3.5mm jack and a 1320mAh battery.

The Sony Xperia Sola comes running the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, however the smartphone should see an upgrade to Android Ice Cream Sandwich at some point in the game although it isn’t quite clear just when.

If you are considering purchasing the Sony Xperia Sola, we have a short promo video of the Xperia Sola for your viewing consideration below, so don’t forget to head on down and hit that play button to check out the footage.

Thus for those in the land of Aus, if you would like to pre-order the Sony Xperia Sola, you can do so by hitting up the MobiCity website, where the Android handset is beeing offered for pre-order at a sale price of $489 unlocked and with a 12-month warrany, rather than at the regular price of $569.