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Japan's top mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. Thursday said it will launch Sony Ericsson's Xperia smart phone in April, in a direct challenge to heavyweight Apple's iPhone handsets.
With the touchscreen Xperia, a model that the Japanese-Swedish enterprise will introduce globally in the first quarter,
Xperia, based on Google-backed Android operating systems, has a four-inch wide touchscreen display and comes with applications for seamless data control, including a iPhone and the Blackberry by Research in Motion.
