After a couple of months of being on sale round the world, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is now available through the US. However if you’re looking into picking the handset up, you will have to fork out the full price of the handset. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is available for $600 unlocked from the Sony Store. It will work on AT&T and T-Mobile but, T-Mobile 3G won’t be supported unfortunately.

As of yet, a carrier is yet to pick up the Arc, so there are no monthly deals, or subsidized handset pricing, just the flat out $600. Hopefully a network carrier will pick the handset up soon, making owning the Xperia Arc, an affordable option.

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Despite the handset not even being released to the public yet, the Xperia Play from Sony Ericsson has already made it’s way onto eBay, both in the US and the UK. While there are a few pre-order listings on eBay a few sellers already have the handset in their hands and ready to ship.

All of the sellers appear to have won theirs at the GDC conference. A recent eBay UK listing ended at £460, less than the retail value, however folks selling in the US are doing considerably better. One of the first listings for the Play in the US ended for $930, while another listing that is still active is currently at $1,525. With 3 hours still left to go this price could increase even further, as has already happened to another listing. A third listing which ends tomorrow shows retail packing of the Xperia Play and is proving to be very popular, as the bidding has already reached $2,025.

The Xperia Play is due to be released March 31st in the UK but, a US release date hasn’t been set yet but, it is likely to arrive sometime in April.

Good news for our American readers as it looks like the Xperia X10 from Sony Ericsson will finally be released in the US. The handset is due to be released sometime between the middle of August and the middle of September this year, so not too long to wait now. The handset will be made available through AT&T, where the Xperia X10 has recently passed the company’s technical acceptance test.

The device is, according to AT&T’s systems, to cost phone retailers $345 per handset but, it’s unknown currently what the subsidized and unsubsidized costs and tariffs will be. It is also very likely that the x10 handset will ship with the Google Android OS version 1.6 but, hopefully the expected 2.1 update should follow shortly after release of the X10 on US shores.

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