Sony Xperia M Reviews
Android phone market can be said to be a mid-end market is Sony. Because in the price range of 2-4 million Sony offers a product that has a design, nice features over other competitors. Now our office arrival M Xperia phones, mobile phones under the Xperia L position but with features that do not differ much. With the price of 2.5 million if the phone is to be reckoned with? Please read the review below.
Main Specifications- Quadband GSM 850/900/1800/1900
- Dualband HSDPA 900/2100
- Capacitive touch screen 4.0-inch FWVGA (480x854 pixels) ~ 245 ppi
- The internal memory of 4 GB (GB free 2:05), 1 GB RAM
- Rear Camera 5 MP (2592 x 1944 pixels) with autofocus, LED flash
- Android 4.1 Jellybean
- CPU 1.0 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Krait MSM8227 Plus
- Adreno 305 GPU
- Lithium-Ion 1750 mAh
Package Sales- Sony Xperia handsets M
- Chief charger
- Data cable
- headset
- manual
- warranty card
Design and BodyFor the market two millions, lately Sony not too creative in designing their products. Commencing from the Xperia J, E, L, and now the Xperia M has a design similar to the presence of the waist and the top and bottom are thicker with OmniBalance design elements. Xperia M has the dimensions of the body 124 x 62 x 9.3 mm and weighs 115 grams, is fairly compact and fairly lightweight as possible because the material used is made entirely of plastic.
The face is filled with a secondary camera, earpiece, proximity sensor and light, 4-inch screen, LED illumination, and a mic. Because of Xperia M using the Android function keys in the screen, then the area of the face has a wide black frame. The back is filled with the primary camera, LED flash, a mic and a speaker line-shaped. To access the battery, microSIM and microSD card slot is located behind the back cover.
The left side of the phone is loaded with the lock / power aluminum similar to brand-new Sony phones today, the volume and the presence of the camera button. The right side of the phone is loaded with microUSB port. The top is filled with a 3.5mm headset port, while the bottom is only filled with holes for hanging accessories.
Affairs M Xperia screen using TFT LCD screen measuring 4-inch FWVGA resolution (480 x 854 pixels). The quality of these screens for the price of 2 million mobile phone looks passable, the sharpness is good, its just the character of a reddish color and a little dull. To display under exposure to sunlight, the screen can display less well so you have to block out the light on the new screen display can be seen clearly.
InterfaceInterface is the same as the other Sony Android 4.1 lockscreen to display left two sliders for quick access to the music player and right to the camera menu. Start a new lockscreen to perform vertical gestures. Go to your homescreen pages will be presented five pages that can be expanded up to a maximum of 7 pages as a place to put your favorite widgets.
Notification window comes with several settings such as sound profiles, bluetooth, wifi, and mobile data, as well as quick access to the settings menu. By holding the home button, the application will be raised access to Google Now, if you press the recent and, in addition to showing the ranks of the newly opened application you can also include some small applications to mobile screen like a calculator, a timer, a memo, and voice recorder. Drawer application comes with a 4 x 4 formation typical of Sony, which was given the white frame transparent and tabs to change the view of the arrangement of icons, search button, and options.
Typing on the Xperia Xperia M can be done with a keyboard that has a lot of features such as support mandarin, predictive text, setting the keyboard layout and color theme. Despite the 4-inch sail but susunana button on the keyboard is quite comfortable to use because of the presence of the distance between the buttons there.
Contacts and MessagingDisplay contact and messaging standards for the latest Xperia which is divided into four tabs that contact, phone, favorite, group. To enter the contact list you can pull it from the computer, online accounts, and import from the SIM card.
For the default Android messaging only, with the initial appearance of the chat thread and the option to attach items such as pictures, photographs, notes, and location will automatically change the format of the message to MMS.
CameraXperia M with two cameras, a front camera with VGA resolution and a 5MP rear camera with autofocus and features a resolution of the LED flash. The camera on the Xperia M is equipped with sensors like Exmor RS and features is quite generous and match the features available in Sonys high-end phones. More comfort, the Sony retained the presence of the camera button which under certain conditions is helpful for taking pictures so as not to shake and blur. Quick access of the screen is off is also present so you only need to hold the camera button and the phone will automatically go into camera mode.
Results for indoor shots look pretty good, although less sharp, but to remain natural and bright coloring, the result will be even better when utilizing the flash. For outdoor also looks good result which looks sharp and the coloring is quite natural.
Video RecordingFront camera Xperia M can do video recording up to VGA resolution, while the resolution 5MP rear camera capable of recording video up to 720p HD resolution. Just like a camera, for video recording Sony also provides many features to maximize results. The results of the video recording will be saved in the MP4 format. When you are recording video at the same time you can also take pictures with 1MP resolution when using the rear camera and a VGA resolution front camera.
MultimediaPhoto and video content will be collected and displayed in the menu Albums with Sonys unique appearance which by default is displayed based on the timeline and content can also be displayed in the form of a folder. As usual present SenseMe slideshow feature, where an image, edit, and more.
The music player on the Sony Xperia course called WALKMAN. A music player that has proven its reliability. This music player can find information from the content of existing songs and has integration with other services such as application extension, Youtube, Facebook, and others. Recommended settings are also complete sound output from the speakers via the setting up via the headset. Speaker can produce sound that is loud, unfortunately lying snugly in the phone cradle so if put on top of the table will sound somewhat hindered.
The video player or named Movies has a gorgeous user interface with the initial page last video footage viewed. To support the video format itself is quite extensive as MP4, MKV, AVI can be played well without subtitles, but only a maximum of 720p resolution. Good album, music player and video player is equipped with DLNA connectivity so users can play content in other devices that support.
The FM radio comes with an attractive appearance as it comes with a variety of graphical visualization makes a fairly traditional features is becoming more modern. As usual you have to plug the headset in order to enjoy your favorite radio broadcasts.
BrowserThe default condition of Xperia M have Chrome as the default browser (other than Opera Mini). Hence no doubt the performance of the browser. Features that can be utilized is a multi-tab to tab 99 more, synchronization between devices, and other superior features. However, its performance is nice, web pages desktop version can be opened smoothly without any problems. For the flash content when we try to play a YouTube video desktop version of the video player interface displays only the loading is not finished.
To test HTML5, Chrome browser scored 415 with 11 bonus points. Score Sunspider, the browser is getting 2272.2ms figures (the smaller the better).
BenchmarkQuadrant Standard: 4182 points
AnTuTu: 10005 points
NenaMark2: 64.6 fps
Multitouch Tester: maximum 5 touch
CamSpeed: Score 677; With Flash 652
ConnectivityXperia M runs on quadband GSM network 850/900/1800/1900 and dualband HSDPA 900 / 2100. For local connectivity there is Wi-Fi 802. 11 a / b / g / n dual-band, Bluetooth v4.0, A-GPS, microUSB v2.0, and microSD support up to 32GB. Despite being in the mid-end 2.5 million but Sony gives NFC connectivity typically found in mobile. With NFC would simplify and speed up the connection to the device or other accessories.
Battery LifeXperia M equipped with a Lithium Ion battery with a capacity of 1750 mAh which is claimed to be able to do a talk time of 9 hours and standby up to 454 hours on 3G networks. To reality with the active data on the 3G network the phone can last from a day or even up to 2 days if minimal use. Moreover STAMINA Sony delivers software that will optimize the use of resources in order to not waste battery power wasted.
ConclusionWith a difference of about 500 thousand with Xperia L, you will get Jellybean Android phone that has the specs and performance that is not much different. In terms of design even though not as elegant Xperia L but both of these phones have a similar design. Several things distinguish these two phones only camera resolution, internal memory, and screen size. So of course the decision is yours whether you want a phone with a more elegant appearance as well as the size of the screen is a little bigger or choose a cheaper phone with little reduction in the specification.
excess- NFC connectivity for mobile 2.5 millions
- batteries qualified
- speaker toned
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