Separate joint venture with Ericsson, Sony is making a little choked up in launching new products. Famous qualified in the field of multimedia, the Japanese manufacturer has finally launched the Sony Xperia S, which is the first product of a series of NXT, certainly no frills behind Ericsson.
The most interesting when he first saw the Xperia S is the touch buttons at the bottom of the panel. There is a transparent crystal block with a button touch home, back and menu on it. At first glance reminiscent of the design of the Sony Ericsson Pureness, transparent phone ever attended some time ago.
With the processor and the memory it has. Android Gingerbread OS v2.3 can run perfectly without jamming feels slow or lag.
Especially when we test using Quadrant Standard benchmark applications and Antutu Bencmark. Test Using Antutu benchmark 6652 also achieved a score that is quite high as well when using the Quadrant benchmark application benchmark Xperia S gets a total score of 3199 that put this phone with better ratings than the Samsung Galaxy Tab, or the Galaxy Nexus.
Highly favored for multimedia affairs. Xperia S has a camera with a fairly high resolution for a phone. Features buried also unsparing started dati autofocus, smile detection to image stabilizer is also available.
Performance of the camera is also fairly when tested to shoot having a fast response. Similarly, when the process of storing photos. There was no moment of pause when taking some photos.
Having a Mobile Bravia Engine technology, the screen quality is proven classy while viewing the image. When used inside or outside the room, the screen still feels comfortable. In addition the display can still readable from any angle.
CAMERA SAMPLE
PROS CONS
Sony Xperia S Advantages
- Quad-band GSM /GPRS/EDGE support
- 3G with 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
- 4.3" 16M-color capacitive LED-backlit LCD touchscreen of 720p resolution (720 x 1280 pixels) with Sony Mobile BRAVIA engine; Scratch-resistant glass
- Android OS v2.3.7 Gingerbread, planned Android 4.0 ICS update
- Dual-core 1.5 GHz Scorpion CPU, 1 GB RAM, Adreno 220 GPU, Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260 chipset
- 12 MP autofocus camera with LED flash and geo-tagging, Multi Angle shot
- 1080p video recording @ 30fps with continuous autofocus and stereo sound
- 1.3 MP front-facing camera, 720p video recording
- Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA
- GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS
- 32GB built-in storage
- microHDMI port, dedicated TV launcher
- microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1
- Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
- Stereo FM radio with RDS
- Voice dialing
- Adobe Flash 11 support
- Deep Facebook integration
- PlayStation Certified, access to the PS Store
- Accelerometer and proximity sensor
Sony Xperia S Main disadvantages
- The competition will soon have phones with quad-core CPUs...
- ...and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box
- Display has sub-par viewing angles
- No microSD card slot
- microSIM only
- Shutter key isn't particularly comfortable
Sony Xperia S Technical Specifications
- GENERAL 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- 3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 - LT26i
- SIM Micro-SIM
- Announced 2012, January
- Status Available. Released 2012, February
- BODY Dimensions 128 x 64 x 10.6 mm (5.04 x 2.52 x 0.42 in)
- Weight 144 g (5.08 oz)
- DISPLAY Type LED-backlit LCD, capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Size 720 x 1280 pixels, 4.3 inches (~342 ppi pixel density)
- Multitouch Yes, up to 10 fingers
- Protection Scratch-resistant glass
- - Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine
- - Timescape UI
- SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3 ringtones
- Loudspeaker Yes
- 3.5mm jack Yes
- MEMORY Card slot No
- Internal 32 GB storage, 1 GB RAM
- DATA GPRS Up to 86 kbps
- EDGE Up to 237 kbps
- Speed HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.8 Mbps
- WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
- Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
- NFC Yes
- USB Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go
- CAMERA Primary 12 MP, 4000x3000 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, check quality
- Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, 3D sweep panorama, image stabilization
- Video Yes, 1080p@30fps, check quality
- Secondary Yes, 1.3 MP, 720p@30fps
- FEATURES OS Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread), v4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich), planned upgrade to v4.1 (Jelly Bean)
- Chipset Qualcomm MSM8260 Snapdragon
- CPU Dual-core 1.5 GHz
- GPU Adreno 220
- Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
- Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM, Push Email
- Browser HTML5, Adobe Flash
- Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
- GPS Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS
- Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
- Colors White, Black, Silver
- - TV launcher
- - SNS integration
- - HDMI port
- - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- - MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
- - MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player
- - TrackID music recognition
- - Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
- YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
- - Document viewer
- - Voice memo/dial/commands
- - Predictive text input
- BATTERY Non-removable Li-Ion 1750 mAh battery
- Stand-by Up to 450 h (2G) / Up to 420 h (3G)
- Talk time Up to 7 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 8 h 30 min (3G)
- Music play Up to 25 h
