Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, analysis (III)

We continue with the analysis of the sony ericsson xperia arc, we remind you that we take a good look out, we met your operating system and software, and now it is the turn of the hardware, the paragraph in which many people believed that he limps.

It is a fact that Motorola, Samsung, LG and HTC have already ready terminals of dual-core, and want to have to fight with them to the Xperia Arc would not be fair, if and when they put at different market prices. This factor would depend quite my choice if I had to put Sony Ericsson in the list.

Realistically, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc competes with a second range of terminals of high range (with single-core processors) which is fully active in the market, one of their representatives are the nexus S, the galaxy S, or the video HD and S.

For many these phones fully meet their needs, they lead Android without any problem, as well as the media facets, including the majority of games on the market are really developed for this generation. At the time they begin to get content for the most powerful phones we encounter shortcomings, but right now this is not a reality.

I show you a couple of examples of relatively demanding games running on our Arc:

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The hardware used in Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is well known by all, is the Snapdragon MSM8255 to 1 GHz developed by Qualcomm, which comes with a GPU Adreno 205.

Use this chipset, that we may consider it the second-generation Snapdragon (45nm), is a guarantee, HTC committed by him in his bestseller, and is highly supported and optimized to the Android system. We would say that with the Samsung Hummingbird, are the two most widespread SoCs, with results in similar benchmarks.

If we look at the list of phones that use it, with a price similar to the Arc, we'll see how it is not only with regard to the "dual core", by what we understand to be a very long life cycle: HP Pre 3HTC Desire S, HTC Incredible S, video HD, the new BlackBerry Bold Touch and the latest Xperia, the Xperia Play included.

The funny thing is that with the exception of the Palm Pre 3 and our Xperia Arc, which opt for 512 MB of RAM, the rest of solutions have opted for 768 MB, but the reality is that we don't notice a lower benchmarks or Android applications running.

Speaking of evidence, we have gone to the Arc by different benchmarks (NeoCore, Quadrant and GL Benchmark 2.0) that give us a few useful results to compare now and in the future with other phones, taking into account that are made with 2.3.2 Android Gingerbread.

I would like to clarify, before seeing the video, that Quadrant have been passing it more times with an average of 1,600 points (in the video came out slightly less). In the case of Neocore (bench of Qualcomm), we've had next to Video HD, so you can see that the numbers are the same, taking into account that Sony Ericsson's screen resolution is higher:

As regards the storage memory, as I have mentioned in previous articles, we have 320 MB internal and 8 GB microSD card way, expandable up to 32 GB.

The battery is a section in which you have always very curious, and is also quite difficult to assess. We started with the data that tells us Sony Ericsson: 1500mAh which give us 7 hours 3 G talk, 400 hours standby, or 31 hours playing music.

My feeling is that the battery has a range somewhat better on the average of the Smartphones of their characteristics, let us remember that we have a screen of 4.2 inches, and that should be taken into account. To establish a comparison with a very similar phone, the htc desire hd, autonomy is notoriously better in the terminal of Sony Ericsson.

With the brightness of the screen in an intermediate position, making intensive use of the phone (Timescape notifications to the fullest, playing, surfing) we spent the day without problems, another issue is at the end of the second.

The sony ericsson xperia arc leaves behind any type of connectivity, in terms of networks we have HSDPA (7.2Mbps HSDPA), Bluetooth or WiFi n with DLNA support (has its own implementation).

We don't forget a GPS receiver that works perfectly, and radio FM with RDS. One of the strengths is the output microHDMI which allows us to connect the device on the big screen. Unfortunately I could not test for that the cable is not included in the set, or I just have this connection (version of Vodafone cable included).

Taking advantage of the people of Sony Ericsson made a video at the Mobile World Congress presenting the possibilities of the exit microHDMI of the Neo, Arc and Pro, share with you. You can check that it is possible to use the command of the Sony TV to browse through the Gallery, and viewing video in 720 p format:

I challenge them to Monday next to learn about evaluations, final, in addition to reviewing one of the strengths of the phone, the camera in photo and video, in addition to talk a bit about the alternatives on the market.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, analysis (IV): camera, alternatives, conclusions

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