Review Sony Xperia V (LT25i): Elegant Design, Waterproof

 

After the Sony Xperia and Xperia Acro Go S, Sony re-released the tough smartphone with a body that still elegant. Sony Xperia V is the new champion Sony is resistant to water and dust. What about performance?

Design

Dimensions: 129 x 65 x 10.7 mm, 120 grams; full touchscreen; plastics material and scratch-resistant glass; 3.5 mm audio port; volume rocker, power button / lock; hole mic; microUSB port (around the phone from the top). Three capacitive buttons below the screen (back, home and recent apps), Dust-proof and water-resistant (IP55 / IP57)
Through V Xperia, Sony managed to present an elegant design as well as tough. Body curve design inherits a thin Xperia Arc in the middle on the back.

With this form plus finishing doff the backcover abrasive sensation makes Xperia V comfortable in the hand.


Although not designed to bolt as used other tough phones, Xperia X still has a certified IP 55/57. Certification is able to ensure the phone can survive in fresh water with a maximum depth of 1 meter for 30 minutes, with a record of each patron and backdoor port closed.

To the top of Sony's 3.5 mm audio input port, while the volume and lock buttons on the right, there is a microUSB port on the left.

Front has three capacitive buttons below the screen (back, home and recent apps). While in the back of the Sony camera plus LED flash puts the Xperia logo and speaker holes.

Display

Touch screen LED-backlit LCD capacitive Reality, 16 million colors, 720 x 1280 pixels, 4.3 inches (~ 342 ppi pixel density), multi-touch, Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2
To zoom, although many vendors will present a screen resolution of full HD (1080p), Sony still pretty confident with limited resolution HD (720p) on the Xperia V.

Wide enough screen size plus the density reaches 342 pixels per inch, mambuatnya able to present images with excellent sharpness.

Operating System and UI
Android OS, v4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich), upgradable to v4.1.2 (Jelly Bean); Timescape UI
Unfortunately Xperia V still uses the Android version of ICS, but fortunately the OS update is already present shortly after you turn on your phone and connect to the Internet.

Not only air Android OS, Sony also buried typical interface Timescape UI. In this interface, Sony did some modifications to the Xperia Xperia V than others.

As already mentioned in the design, this phone has no buttons but touch a virtual button that integrates capacitive screen section. 3 virtual buttons are displayed in the area below the screen is a back button, home and recent apps.

Sony has a small apps that blend with the look of recent apps on this phone. When small apps running will appear in a small window display that allows users to use this application functionality while still running other functions on the Xperia V.

Hardware

Dual-core processor 1.5 GHz Krait, Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon chipset, Adreno 225 GPU, RAM: 1 GB RAM, Internal Storage: 8 GB, External: microSD, up to 32 GB, Li-Ion 1750 mAh
Use dual core processor made by Qualcomm's Krait variants are included in the S4 Snapdragon series, making its performance is quite good. Moreover reportedly able to compensate for the performance of its main competitor NVIDIA Tegra 3 is used by HTC and Acer Cloud One S Mobile S500.

For storage media Sony 8 GB internal memory pinning, where users can use about 1.7 GB to add applications only and additional 3.7GB storage for applications and data such as music, videos, pictures and other documents.

Connectivity

GSM 850/900/1800/1900; HSDPA 850/900/2100; LTE 800/850/1800/2100/2600; GPRS, EDGE Up to 237 kbps, HSPA + (DL 42 Mbps / UL 5.8 Mbps), LTE, Cat3, ( 100 Mbps DL / UL 50 Mbps), Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, NFC, microUSB (MHL) v2.0
Although not yet available in Indonesia Xperia V supports 4G LTE network, as a result the maximum that can be connected to the network is HSPA +.

Xperia V also provides all the connectivity needs like a hi-end smartphones such as NFC, or MicroSD that can connect the phone to an HDTV with the help of USB MHL cable to A / V. Other connections are still there as usual Bluetooth and Wifi DLNA.

Camera

13 MP, 4128x3096 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, sweep panorama, image stabilization; backside-illuminated Exmor R sensor; Secondary camera: VGA; Video recorder: Yes, 1080p @ 30fps, continuous autofocus, video light, video stabilizer
One advantage of the Xperia V is from the camera sector. Besides equipped with great resolution adopting features also fairly competent.

In addition there are also nine scene selection modes, 9 effects, panorama mode HDRdan other setting options. Users can customize the shortcut 2 of 4 available settings in the left pane of the screen on the camera interface Xperia V.

For novice users Sony gives you a solution to embed features Superior Auto. In this feature you do not need to do more settings when shooting but still expect maximum results.

Benchmark

Applications used: Quadrant Standard Edition by Aurora Softwork and Antutu Benchmark v3.1.1 by Antutu
Benchmark testing on Xperia V showed pretty good performance. Using the Quadrant application, this phone through the number 6002 which put him on the HTC One X that uses quad-core processors in the chart shown. While applications Antutu score 11,028 reward that makes it capable of mengakahkan performance of the Samsung Galaxy Note and Galaxy Nexus.

These results make the Xperia V a dual core smartphone best ever test PULSE. Here's a comparison with HTC and Acer One S Mobile S500 Cloud who had also scored well in benchmark tests in the class dual core.

PLUS (+)

• Anti-certified water and dust with IP 55/57
• 13MP Camera & Video Full HD
• LTE ready
• Dual-core 1.5 Krait
• Superior Performance

MINUS (-)

• The price is relatively expensive
• Android OS ICS in the package

Conclusion

Xperia smartphones V is at once tough, smart camera performance and superior as well as IP57 certification which makes it water resistant and dust that makes the user do not have to worry about using it in any condition. The only drawback to this phone is the Android version is still ICS. but it does not matter because the updates to Jellybean was present when the phone is switched on and connected to the Internet.


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