[3] Sony Ericsson Xperia ray has a 3.3 inch display; there is a "Xperia" logo, a physical home button that can be illuminated with four different colors (white, red, green and blue), and two capacitive buttons (menu and back buttons) on the lower bezel of the display while there is a "Sony Ericsson" logo, a front-facing camera, an earpiece and sensors on the upper bezel on the display.

[4] On the side frame, there is a microUSB port at the left, there is a volume rocker at the right, there is a headphone jack and a power button at the top, and there is a microphone hole and a groove to remove the back cover at the bottom..

There is a rear camera, an LED flash and a loudspeaker at back,[4] Sony Ericsson Xperia ray measures 111 x 53 x 9.4 mm and weighs 100 grams.

Sony Ericsson Xperia ray is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon MSIM8255 system-on-chip with 1 GHz Scorpion CPU and Adreno 205 GPU.

[3][4] The rear camera is an Exmor R backlit (BSI) CMOS sensor with a resolution of 8 megapixels and capable of shooting in 720p at 30 frames per second.