[Xperia SP General] IE-coRe:
So the Xperia SP has a screen based on the same technology as xperia sola and also galaxy s4 and galaxy note 2. I own the xperia sola my self right now but i am going to upgrade to Xperia SP later this month. After posting in Q&A a little bit i found that there are many tricks about these features that you guys may not know yet so i hope this will help.

Q: What is Glove Mode and how to use it correctly?

Glovemode is a feature that allows you to use your phone wearing gloves. If enabled it detects how far you finger is away from the screen while unlocking the phone so that you phone is usable without touching the screen directly.

How to use:

-enable Glove Mode in settings

-lock the screen

-unlock the screen wearing gloves

if you want to exit glove mode just unlock the screen without gloves

What is Floating touch and how to use it correctly?

Floating touch is a feature that will give you a mouseover effect when hovering over links while browsing the web.

It also makes some popup menus work. This feature was announced one year ago with the launch of the xperia sola and the xperia sp is not promoted to support this becouse Sony decide to install chrome as default browser wich does not support it.

How to use:

-it doesnt matter weather Glove Mode is enabled or not

-download a third party browser that supports hovering, i suggest next browser

-go to a webside that uses mouseover effects, about every not mobile optimised webside uses

-hover your finger over a link and enjoy the mouseover effect

Can i control the entire UI without touching the screen?

Yes you can. You can trick Glovemode to think you wear gloves but you actually dont so that between your finger and the screen is just air instead of gloves. There are apps that are suppose to allow that in the Sola section but DONT use these, they are made for the sola before glovemode came with the 4.0 update. You dont need any mod anyway.

How to trick Glove Mode:

-make sure Glove Mode is enabled in the settings

-go to the lockscreen

-hover your finger over the lockscreen

-you will see the animation like you are touching the screen

-gently move your finger and try to unlock the screen without touching it

-now you can use the touchscreen without touching in the whole UI and in every app.

-to disable just unlock your phone normal

Remember that this is just a gimmicky trick to show off to your friends how magic your phone is,its not suppose to be convinient in any situation. It also disables every other hovering feature for the time you use it.

Can i use hovering apps made for Somsung devices?

Yes. Theoritical all the Samsung Air View apps would also work on the Xperia SP. Sadly at this point almost all apps that support Air View are system apps and part of the touchwizz ui but maybe we can find a skilled dev who can port some of the for us. Anyway, the galxy s4 came with a version of Flipboard that support Air View and until now also the Play store version has been updated to support it so that it works on the Xperia SP. You can hover over a category to preview some of the content. Lets hope that more third party apps are going to add support for this.

Feel free to add more questions and i will add them to OP.