Sony Mobile has shown off its latest Android smartphone - the Xperia sola.

Making its smartphone debut exclusively on Xperia sola, Sony's floating touch lets consumers activate links and buttons on the screen by hovering their finger above the screen so it acts like a moving curser, without actually having to touch the screen. Once the desired link is found it can be highlighted and a simple tap will load the page.

Xperia sola is NFC enabled and comes with a 1GHz dual-core processor, 3.7 inch screen and launches on Android platform 2.3, with an upgrade to Android 4.0 during summer 2012.

Pricing detailer were not released.