Sony Ericsson has made announcement about the launching of its much-awaited Xperia X1a phone, which will hit US market on November 28.

The phone will be available through the Sony Style stores, which have already started receiving pre-orders from Thursday (November 13).

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1a, which is focused more on lifestyle of a consumer, features a brilliant 3.0-inch 16-bit color TFT touchscreen with a full QWERTY keyboard.

The prettiest phone to arrive in the market sports a 3.2 megapixel camera with 30FPS video recording with a bright flash for videos and photos.

Based on the Windows Mobile platform, the Xperia X1a comes with a 256 MB SDRAM and 400 MB of onboard memory with support for microSD card.

The XPERIA will have 400MB of internal memory, which is expandable to 32GB.

Moreover, the phone with sleek arc-slider design weighs just 145 grams and supports both Quad-band GSM and HSPA networks, and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.0 for connectivity.

The other goodies include 3G, Bluetooth 2.1, USB 2.0, wireless LAN 802.11b/g, EDGE and quad-band GSM, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, and HSCSD.

The phone would cost $799.99 for the unlocked version.