Not too long ago, Sony was a name that many automatically associated with products that were both easy on the eye and terrific performers. However, that reputation seemed to take a bit of a knock in the smartphone department over the past year or two with the company coming out with a plethora of devices that were oddly shaped and in some cases, did not exactly rock when it came to performance. Things took a change for the better earlier this year with the launch of the new Xperia series, and with the Xperia Ion, Sony finally seems to have cracked the ‘style with substance’ equation.