The phone handles p video capture admirably and auto-adjusts focus and exposure very swiftly. The autofocus can get a little confused by fast moving objects and busy scenes, but the effect is no worse than the average smartphone camera. There's not much left to say about Sony's Android 2. The more time I spend with it, the more convinced I am that Sony's effort is the most attractive Gingerbread will ever be. Visually, it has more in common with Android 4.
There's some Xperia-only software included, such as Timescape a social networking hub , TrackID a Shazam-like music identifier , and the Music and Video Unlimited apps that offer you access to content over multiple Sony devices provided you pay a subscription fee. There are also a few attractive, simple widgets for the Timescape, TrackID, gallery, and music apps, among others. Unfortunately, our review unit arrived with a lot of bloatware. It came with over 20 non-Sony apps pre-installed, most of which were removable.
Some were not, however, including Amazon the bookstore, not the app store , Facebook, and portals to Three's music and video stores. Sony has included a theme manager with most of its recent phones, but up until now I've largely ignored it. My reason was simple: each theme in this case there are seven not only changes the color of Sony's very pretty Cosmic Flow live wallpaper, but also all of the settings menus.
As I like my settings to be black and white, I've always just changed the color of the live wallpaper through the standard wallpaper menu instead. However, with the Xperia U your theme also dictates the color of the LED lights beneath the display, which made exploring the options much more appealing.
You can choose between the default Sapphire blue, and the only theme that lets you keep your settings black and white , Gold, Turquoise, Ruby pink , Amethyst purple , Emerald green , and Silk white. Select a theme and your LEDs will change to mirror the color change almost flawlessly. It's a very fun touch and I'm quite enamored with the Amethyst wallpaper-and-LED combo, although I wish Sony would let me keep my settings plain and simple. The LEDs also come into play when viewing photos with the gallery app, doing their best to mirror the dominant color in each photo, and also in the music app, where they match the album artwork.
It's a little hit and miss, but when it works well it's fun. I'd have liked to see more options for personalizing the LEDs — an option to mirror the colors of any wallpaper would've been nice, as would granular control of the colors on offer.
Overall, Sony's skin is one of the best around, but — and it's a big but — it's still underpinned by Android 2. There's just no getting away from the fact the Xperia U is now two generations behind the Galaxy Nexus. It must be tough to be a Sony fan right now, but the saddest fact is that the company isn't alone — there are far too many companies behind the curve when it comes to delivering the latest OS to their customers.
The flagship Xperia S has now been promoted to Android 4. As you'd expect, you get the ICS multitasking menu, resizable widgets, smoother performance, and improved core apps. You'll also find a tweaked lock screen that offers quick access to the camera app and a new stock browser that's far better than the one found on Gingerbread although with Android 4.
Sony also includes a couple of great additions on the software side with its Android 4. The pair are beautifully designed and improve on the equivalent stock experiences both visually and functionally. I'd delve in deeper, but the fact remains that these apps aren't yet on the Xperia U. Yes, Android 4. Sony's first Android 4. Something to bear in mind if you're buying the Xperia U on the promise of an imminent update.
The results from our benchmark suite mirrored my experiences —the Xperia U edges the more expensive P in every category except GLBenchmark, a graphical test which runs off-screen and is not affected by display resolution. The other tests have graphical portions, which explains why two devices with the same SoC perform differently.
So should I upgrade it? You would likely need to purchase a new Android device since the manufacturer of your device will void the warranty after any attempts at rooting. There is an increased risk of unknowingly installing malicious software when you root an Android device.
Root access circumvents the security restrictions that are put in place by the Android OS. In most cases, these applications are open source and the community can take a look at the source code to assess the risk.
But, nevertheless, the risk is there. But I thought it was worth mentioning since this could be a potential risk in the future.
Lookout Mobile Security seems to be one of the best ones available at the moment. Register Login. This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it. Wait for a moment then you will get notified if there is any Update available for your device. Download the Software, install it and then turn off your smartphone. Before turning on the device wait for 5 seconds and unplug it from USB cable.
Now press and hold —Vol Button and connect your device with the cable. Hold the Vol Button until your device turns on. If you followed all the steps as they were told to you then your device will turn on automatically with the new Software successfully installed. Note: If you have followed all the steps while updating your software but still it was not updated. Hopefully, this time your smartphone will be updated if not try once more.
I went through the same problem and repeated these steps and then new Update was successfully installed. Performing that less-than-scientific test here is reasonably gratifying. We already noted in our hands-on, that navigation was neither zippy nor sluggish, and that about sums it up. That said, once you've had the phone for a while, and more and more applications compete for resources, this might start to change. For now, however, we're quite pleased with the speed and ease at which we got around the user interface.
Beyond that UI, Sony has filled the Android room with a few bits of its own furniture, notably its audio and video services. That's hardly surprising given its recent departure from long-term beau Ericsson.
Now that it's got the place all to itself, it's evidently keen to leave its mark, and that means Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited take pride of place. You don't have to use these, of course, as there are other media playing options. But, if you're already a signed-up member of the Sony-Unlimited club, then you'll jive to the Xperia U's beat right from the off.
One corner of the Sony universe that doesn't get explored, however, is its PlayStation franchise. There's nary a mention of the PS Store or PlayStation certification, which might not be surprising given that the bigger Xperia P also seems to have been left off the invite list. If you're still in any doubt about it, the short version is that the software is more of the same that we've come to expect from the Xperia brand.
There's the good some Android 4-esque features like app folders , the bad McAffee's persistent antivirus and the ugly connecting to a Mac to transfer files needs a cable and more software.
The good news is that most of the stuff that you don't like can either be uninstalled or easily ignored, leaving you to mold the phone to your liking. When you have less display to light-up, you stand a good chance of being able to do it for longer. The 1,mAh battery is a sliver over that of the Xperia P's 1,mAh, and this, factored with the lessened screen demand, do help keep the juice flowing a little longer. On our standard battery-draining test WiFi on, brightness at 50 percent, and a continuous video playing the Xperia U's engine room kept it huffing and puffing for a smidgen over five hours, which is better than the P could manage, and about on a par with the larger and more power-endowed Xperia S.
That five hours isn't all that far off of the "up to" six hours in the press materials, which obviously tend to err more on the optimistic side. What about when you're not settling in for marathon movie sessions, which, let's face it, is likely most of the time? In our time with it, the Xperia U managed to give us nearly two days of service, before it'd start pulling at our trouser leg, asking us to feed it. This is with WiFi and data always on, regularly checking emails, browsing the web and, well, the typical tasks of a fairly demanding user.
This means that if you're away from the security of a wall port for more than 36 hours, then you'll be fine, but you'll likely want to be charging it most nights just in case, as is unfortunately the norm.
Of course, it's not just lighting up that screen, and juggling all the radio signals that drain the battery, those dual-cores will be taking a slice of the power-pie too. Yes, this brings us onto the more measured performance, and those all-important benchmarks. As you can see, the little Xperia U equaled, or saw off its Xperia P label-mate across the board showing that there's plenty of fight in the fella.
In fact, it also pushes HTC's nearest current phone into the sand on most tests. These results are fairly congruent with our own experience. Playing Cut the Rope and other such reasonable light, fluid games felt no different bar the screen real estate than on, say, our Galaxy Nexus.
Perhaps if we literally played one after the other, differences might begin to show, but if there are any, they aren't significant enough to show on their own.
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