Sony Ericsson Xperia S

Overall Review
Sony Xperia S is an impressive smartphone, which manages to adjust and provide almost all facilities that a high-end smartphone must come with. This device is superbly stunning and surely makes its competitors go green with envy. The smartphone is powered with Android OS 2.3 gingerbread, which would be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich as soon as the upgrade is launched. The high-speed dual core processor clocked at the speed of 1.5 GHz is terrific and is accompanied with Qualcomm MSM8260 Snapdragon chipset and Adreno 220 GPU. SMS threading, push email, MMS, Java emulator are some of the other highlights of the phone. The 12 megapixels of rear camera along with 1.3 megapixels of secondary camera adds more charm to the camera section of the device. The 4.3 inches of LED-backlit LCD, capacitive touch-screen display is just fantastic and comes with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels, which makes Sony Xperia S a smartphone to die for. All this and more, is being offered at a very competitive price and would give a straightaway competition to big champions of mobile industry, such as Nokia, LG, Samsung, Apple, Motorola, and RIM.

User Interface and UI functionality
The Sony Xperia S sports a stunning 4.3 inches of LED-backlit LCD capacitive touch-screen display that has a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels. The touch sensitive controls are fabulous and it could handle up to 10 fingers of multitouch. Talking about the user interface and UI functionality, it is remarkable in its own way. The Sony Mobile BRAVIA engine is fast and the Timescape user interface provided an awesome mobile experience to the user. The screen is scratch resistant and prevents to get any minor scratches from fingers while working on the smartphone.

Multimedia features
Sony Xperia S is an Android smartphone, which is loaded with ample of features and it doesn’t lack behind in offering high-class multimedia features. The multiformat audio and video players are impressive and the facility of sending MMS, email, and push mail further add charm to the smartphone. Furthermore, this Android smartphone has Java emulator, which will allow you to install java enabled games to pass your time whenever you are bored. The stereo FM radio with RDS is another option to keep you entertained. Therefore, with plenty of multimedia features, Sony Xperia S certainly gets thumbs up in this section.

Pictures and Video quality
Everybody is well aware how important is camera in a smartphone these days and Sony Mobiles has kept this point in its mind and provided Sony Xperia S with an impressive camera feature. This Android smartphone sports a remarkable 12 megapixels rear camera with facilities like LED flash, autofocus, touch focus, 3D sweep panorama, face and smile detection and image stabilization. The camera keeps the ability to capture high quality pictures and HD videos of 1080p at the rate of 30 frames per seconds with continuous autofocus, video stabilizer and video light. To further enhance the camera department of the device, the firm has intelligently provide the phone with a 1.3 megapixels of secondary snapper that helps the user to click crystal clear self-portraits and record 720p videos at 30 frames per second speed. The user will also be allowed to make video calls via secondary camera with utmost ease and convenience.

 Internet support
Today’s youth surely wants internet access on the go; therefore it is absolutely important that they are offered high end internet support in their smartphones. Sony Xperia S is an Android smartphone, which not only comes with exclusive camera and multimedia features, but also features better internet support. Starting with the Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA which is accompanied with GPRS and EDGE support and A-GPRS support is what further makes the device more enhanced and improved. The presence of HTML5 Adobe flash support browser makes the internet browsing experience of Xperia S notable and unique. For high speed data transmission, the smartphone sports Bluetooth, microUSB port and Near Field Communication or better known as NFC.

Internal and External Memory
With such a high-quality camera, it also important that the smartphone offers sufficient amount of storage space to store the pictures and video captured from the device. And Sony Xperia S does well in this department. This Android smartphone sports a whopping 32 GB of internal memory space along with 1 GB of RAM. However, there is no microSD card slot provided, but with inbuilt storage of 32 GB, this could be excused.

 Applications and Gaming
Besides a smart camera, high-end connectivity features, it is essential for an Android smartphone to have gaming and applications that could entertain the users along with providing utility features. Being an Android device, Sony Xperia S provides the user a complete access to Android market from where the user can download practically unlimited games and useful application depending on the need of it. Android market has about thousands of games and apps that will make your phone much more fun.

Battery Backup
Sony Xperia S features a standard Li-Ion battery of 1750 mAh that promises to provide a standby time of up to 450 hours in 2G and up to 420 hours in 3G accompanied with a continuous talk time of up to 7 hours and 30 minutes in 2G and 8 hours and 30 minutes in 3G. The battery is also capable of providing a nonstop music playback for about 25 hours, which certainly is impressive.

Connectivity Offered
Sony Xperia S comes with notable connectivity features that allow the user to transfer data with high speed and utmost ease. Starting with near field communication or better known as NFC, the device will allow transferring data to other NFC devices within seconds. The presence of Bluetooth and microUSB port further add more charm to the connectivity features of Sony Xperia S.

Compare
Sony Xperia S is one of the most striking and astounding Android devices from Sony’s stable. It has got almost everything that an Android smartphone should possess. The phone gives out a tough competition to other smartphones, which comprise of Apple iPhone 4S, Nokia Lumia 910, Nokia Lumia 800, Samsung Galaxy S II, Motorola RAZR, Samsung Galaxy Note and the list goes on and on.