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.

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The Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro II, closer every day

Mobile Javier Penalva on April 14, 2011 | 08: 32 To vote this post connect with Facebook Connect

You have to see how the batteries has been Sony Ericsson in a couple of years. It has been get Android to be mouth of consumers that until then as soon as you know a couple of terminals of the Alliance and their veins.

The sony ericsson xperia Mini Pro ii could be the next to see the light of the showcases an official. In a Chinese Forum have escaped a few photos of this small phone with Android soon called Mango and that she would have a 1 Ghz and Android 2.3processor. The chip could be a Qualcomm Snapdragon SD8650 with Adreno 205 GPU.

The 3 inch screen you would be the type size so that the dimensions of the terminal is not fire, but he would stay with resolution of 320 × 480 pixels. The design shows the combination of physical and also capacitive buttons to the front. Do not miss the full QWERTY keyboard sliding under the screen and the camera, which in this sony ericsson xperia Mini Pro ii would be 5 megapixel camera and could record video at 720 p.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, analysis of the Android phone (and II)

Analysis Javier Penalva on April 1, 2011 | 09: 45 To vote this post connect with Facebook Connect

The first part of our analysis of Sony Ericsson Xperia Play let us pending speak of your display, rather peculiar as you can see, the Android operating system and its "made in Sony Ericsson" customization, and of course the multimedia features of this phone that boasts 5 megapixel camera.

So we entertain no more and we are going to slaughter with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play analyzed.

Talk of a system of automatic brightness on the screen of a mobile phone is nothing new nor surprising. However, that this Xperia Play will lead no light sensor makes that option not very welcome. The result is that in our tests the basic brightness proposed to us by the phone usually in most cases quite low, which makes it seem a worse screen than it actually is. So to enjoy it and appreciate the good that is, Activate the brightness to the Max.

And it is that the resolution or how sample colors that convince us, while watching his sister Bravia in the Sony Ericsson Arc, we already called on Sony Ericsson that it implement the technology on all its phones. They have a good ally in it to combat the "organic" and "Retinal Display" of the market.

The response of the screen in its paragraph touch that has convinced us, in the middle of the best phones on the market.

Android pure or with customization. Surely that is a debate that many users androids ever arise most when choosing a phone with this operating system.

Sony Ericsson has made an adaptation of Android in its upper layers that we like. To group applications by folders with his pitcher us has fallen in love, with a design that fits with your phone.

Management of contacts, with interaction with its "alter egos" in social networks and messaging system deserve a major round of applause. As regards to TimeScape, is more controlled in this Xperia Play but us still enjoying it, although we opt to not have it activated to enhance the autonomy of the team.

Where for sure that more differences you notice is the two systems which use this phone for the part of video games: Playstation Pocket and Xperia Play. But that is for the next part of the analysis.

The downside of getting to your users good cameras makes that when expectations are very high, a decent camera only does not the chord. And the 5 megapixel camera this Xperia Play is not a bad camera, but pulls away a little camera with a capital already users want to have a mobile phone.

But not all the blame the users with their expectations. Sony Ericsson has not made any effort to give prominence to the camera of this phone thinking that to be the "PlayStation Phone" enough you. They have focused all its efforts in that regard and have simply placed the camera on the back, with its flash (required for best results) and little else.

Although we cannot control the basic aspects of the image, we expected more than the interface of Sony Ericsson. We would also like to have a physical button for photos, and they could have used perfectly where are flanking the volume control, because its location is perfect for this task.

That Yes, in the end, in acceptable conditions, pictures that makes the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play us worth without a display. The following examples:

Where it is could be ported much better is the theme of the video, that is away from the high-definition 720 p that is common to see so-called phones to govern our advanced pockets. This Sony Ericsson's limited to about 800 × 480 pixels, without much more shine in this aspect.

And now we can only look in the latest installment of this analysis of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is this phone as a portable game console.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, analysis of the phone Android (I)

Every day we becomes more complicated to analyze mobile phones. They have already integrated so many functions that strike a balance between them is difficult. In addition, each user has specific needs, and there is no perfect phone. This sony ericsson xperia play that we have thoroughly analyzed for you add the extra to be a real portable console.

In this first part we will tell widely on the finish of the phone, its characteristics and behavior of the battery when we use it as a phone. We will then discuss how is your screen, the performance of the computer, the operating system with a Swedish touch and paragraph multimedia. We will end up with the function of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Star: its use as a portable game console. We started.

Imagine what the sony ericsson xperia play is not a very complicated task. Think inside of a current mobile phone (or at the end of 2010) and place it in the body of a PSPGo. The result is the xperia play, probably the most different phone of how many there are in the market for smartphones.

As we already bring in our video analysis, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is a thick and heavy phone. With a thickness of 16 mm, data that we thought that it was endangered, and a weight of 175 grams, we are left with the question of whether Sony Ericsson could have done more to reduce these two values. However, we are going to take over as lesser-evil for having a different phone.

With these data you know that you better not put it next to one of these delgaduchos modern now, because it will be your xperia play in evidence. But there is a solution for this: open it up and show them all what hides low of 4-inch screen. What has been achieved Sony Ericsson we like.

The reproduction of an complete portable console control is almost perfect. The dimensions are just (perhaps a little limited for big hands but you end up getting used), and the perfect performance. But that talk when you touch. Here I can only say that both the controls and the system of sliding we love and provide us guarantees.

Like physical checks, as well as those dedicated to the game, we find the four relating to the operating system that uses: Android. They are physical controls and well made. Least we like the volume control, hidden on one side and very difficult to reach when we are playing.

Special mention goes to the speakers, which far outweigh and smoothly (is not very difficult), quality media that can be found even in the best phones on the market without musical aspirations.

Throughout the interior and so well implemented gameplay however collides with the exterior finish, especially in the cover of the phone. The used bright plastic doesn't seem at all worthy of a high-end terminal and which has demonstrated both its interior. It is weak, with sense of breaking little that we get wrong with the system of opening of the back cover (need not be so difficult or case devise a simpler than the brute force system) and to look at it can only think in the well that had been a housing with a metallic finish.

What we do really like is that both the SIM card slot and the microSD accessible without removing the battery. Minipunto for Sony Ericsson.

Think of a mobile phone called to replace a handheld console cannot bring us to the head nothing more than a word: power. So one would expect that Sony Ericsson would have put everything what was already on the market in terms of components available to your xperia play. But it has not happened.

Mind you, we are not saying that when we play we will need more power, because in our tests the Xperia Play has shown that it has sufficient packaging, but that we would have liked to think in this Play as a phone of the most powerful of the market for what might come.

In the interior of this phone are a MSM8255 Snapdragon processor 1 GHz with the graphic system Adreno 205. They are data from 2010, and if we add that the RAM is Only 400 MB, surely you understand what I am talking about. I repeat that we have not missed in lack power when we played, but it is logical to think what the consumer you would ask for more on the paper to cover their backs with regard to future requirements. In the game not to spare specifications precisely.

On paper, the 1,500 mAh of capacity of the battery of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play are very welcome. But now we bring you that they have found us scarce.

When not we abuse the game, in other words, just "we miss some Fifas" for less than an hour a day, with 3 G enabled connectivity, use in house of WiFi connectivity, management of e-mail, web browsing, a few calls and some musicthe xperia play can hold from the morning until we got home at night. At that time we will have to connect it inevitably to food. In my case it is not a problem but you need to know in advance the stamina.

And why this happens if the battery has a good capacity? Well, as we shall see when try the theme of the screen and the operating system, both the customization that makes Sony Ericsson's Android with many longing in the aspect of social networks, such as automatic control of brightness that is forced and not adjustable by usWe believe that they are to blame. We reduced the active social services on the phone and noticed some improvement, but nothing do us change their minds that a day is out of use with this phone. So forget about take it holiday to take pictures when you've been all day with him.

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Play available from April 1 to 649 EUR

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One of the phones major of the season, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, it will appear in our market on April 1, both free and with operators. As the issue has not been very clear since its introduction, the joint-venture reports on the offer that we will have to choose the phone.

Firstly, as we announced at the time, Vodafone it have in its range of terminals. The first fifteen days of its marketing in the market will have available the white color of the expected phone/console Androidversion.

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But also it will have both free and with other operators, in this case the model available is of black color, also from the 1st day of April. In the next few weeks we hog of the price at which it will get the rest of the operators concerned.

Finally, the detail that many wanted to know, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play-free price will be 649 euros. A high price but in the line of high-end terminals that are coming to the market, even though your hardware does not reach the power of the dual-core that are emerging, presents a more than remarkable physical control dedicated to PlayStationstyle.

Would be a mistake not to serve the product with games the day of the launch, with Sony behind this was a detail that was to be taken into account, which is why we are told that he will come with six complete games preloaded. What do I consider it necessary is that games created especially for the platform, which is by now we've only seen titles which are shared with the rest of Android terminals.

The list of games Android grows day by day, and we remind you that Sony has prepared a system development between platform Android, called PlayStation Suite, which also promises to bring mobile phone PSOne games. To give more relevance to the development of this device, also confirmed the arrival of the renowned game Havok engine.

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