First Impressions
The Xperia U is a head turner! If I were in a
meeting or at a mall and i saw it in someone's hand, i would surely give it a
second look. And this is one of the toughest tasks for phone manufacturers
these days! The iPhone and Samsung's are so common that, the Xperia series (along
with the Lumia 800 for me) are 2 definite head turners in the market
today.
The Illuminating Translucent Strip
The illuminating translucent strip along the
bottom of the device is obviously one stand out feature. The strip starts to
emit different colors as you browse through music and change themes. It also
changes its color automatically in accordance with the shades in your pictures,
when viewing them. This is one feature that gives the phone a very youth
appeal. A lot of manufacturers and phones try to be mix and match between
business-cum-fun-cum-everything else, but the Xperia U has youth written all
over it.
The illuminating translucent strip along the
bottom of the device is obviously one stand out feature. The strip starts to
emit different colors as you browse through music and change themes. It also
changes its color automatically in accordance with the shades in your pictures,
when viewing them. This is one feature that gives the phone a very youth
appeal. A lot of manufacturers and phones try to be mix and match between
business-cum-fun-cum-everything else, but the Xperia U has youth written all
over it.
The Exchangeable Bottom Cap
The phone's exchangeable bottom cap reiterates its
youth appeal. Many people i showed the phone to didn't like the bright colors
and this exchangeable bottoms concept, but i think it’s quite cool. For the
primary target audience, i think it re-kindles that old world charm when you
changed your feature phone panels and covers. It helps keep the users interest
in the phone alive over a greater period of time, as he has one more, bright
and fun nuance to fiddle with.
Display
The phone encases a 3.5-inch reality display with
Mobile Bravia engine, with a resolution of 854x480 pixels. And the screen is
also scratch-resistant. The colors are really crisp and sharp, thanks to its
reality display with mobile Bravia engine.
Performance
The phone runs Android 2.3 operating system (upgradable
to Android 4 Ice cream sandwich). The user interface is pretty intuitive,
engaging and fluid. The phone comes powered by a powerful 1 GHz dual core
processor, which gave me a smooth browsing and app experience. The speed in
scrolling and rendering was all good.
Camera
The phone sports a 5 megapixel auto-focus camera
with LED flash and 16x digital zoom. It offers various options including
portrait, landscape, night scene, beach and snow, sports and party to customize
images. The colors may appear a bit over saturated, but otherwise the camera
works very well
SOME THINGS I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO SEE IN THE PHONE
ARE:
The width of the phone could have been increased a
bit - I say this
because, this phone will be eyed by a lot of first time real smart
phone buyers, and for them, the touch feature of these touch screen phones
remains an apprehension. This would also have helped the increase in comfort
while typing on the keyboard in the vertical position
The plastics could have been stronger – the plastic body of the phone is delicate.
There was a constant fear that if this phone falls down by mistake, unlike a
Samsung Galaxy or an iPhone, it’ll sure crack
Non-expandable memory – This really should have been there
VERDICT:
The Xperia U is a good phone available at a price
point of Rs16499/-. Having a non-expandable memory is a major bummer,
but otherwise it has a great combo of beauty with brains going for it.
It could have been thinner too seems a little too thick. I like the concept of the strip emitting different colors.
ReplyDeletewhat about battery backup and we know about internal memory is low without sd card slot , these are the negatives of this phone either its best phone under 20k budget
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It is a rubbish phone dude, comeoon, did you even compared it in other categories in terms of screen clarity, Sunlight legibility...it is a crap as most of the Sony Xperia series are
ReplyDelete@shilpa - it isn't that thick... maybe the pictures are misrepresenting. And ya the strip emitting light is very cool.
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