[3] The display is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass.

[4] It is available in black, gold, pink and white.

[4] Xperia J has a 4.0 in (100 mm) touchscreen with 480×854 resolution, a Qualcomm Snapdagon S1 system-on-chip with 1 GHz single core Cortex-A5 CPU and Adreno 200 GPU,[7] a 5-megapixel rear camera, 512 MB of RAM, 4 GB of internal storage which can be extended up to 32 GB by a microSD/HC card, and a 1750 mAh battery.

[4][8][9] Xperia J runs on Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box.

[4][9] Sony updated this device for Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean on 7 March 2013, which it lists as the "latest and final version" of the operating system.