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Sony Xperia P review: Ironclad

1 June 2012 | Read the review | Post your comment
Sony Xperia P review: Ironclad - read the full textSealed in an aluminum unibody but still oozing the new NXT series style, the Sony Xperia P joins an elite club of metal-clad phones. And then there's the WhiteMagic screen to make it unique in the mobile world. In short, the Xperia P is one of...

 

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Hi - Will there be updated reivew once ICS is released for the device? I think it has been released now.

I'm struggling to decide between HTC One S and this one. I have a Nokia C7, and I haven't used the NFC for a long time so thats not so important.

I saw the Galaxy S 3 - pretty amazing.

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  • 2012-06-24 20:33
  • 9Ac6

dont dare to purchase this phone.
i have worst experience. things are not able to load into memory.

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  • 2012-06-20 14:32
  • w47y

Help me out with Xperia P or Samsung galaxy s advance....
Very much confuse about the mobiles which one to buy....?
Need expert advice....from u guys......

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  • 2012-06-18 21:04
  • t}3H

> In reply to Anonymous @ 2012-06-06 22:51 from p@xu - click to readThe amount of RAM reserved for gpu cache (or generally for phone system) is larger than for gpu on sola.

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  • 2012-06-10 10:01
  • txjn

galaxy s3 is way back in looks as compared to xperia S or P...

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  • 2012-06-08 15:19
  • sUwI

can someone explain why this is faster on the gpu test than the sola even through they have the same gpu bt they are running different resolution screens? is the test run at a fixed resolution?

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  • 2012-06-06 22:51
  • p@xu

> In reply to DR.ARUN K P @ 2012-06-05 14:04 from vG@p - click to readI have to say that when a site like this does an inaccurate review it must effect the sales of these phones.
I really do question while they printed distorted, inaccurate and misleading information and have since made no effort to rectify it.

Lets hope we get an update to this review with more professional test methods and analysis of the display.

The current review is not very helpful for me as the flaws in it are blatant and the analysis very poor. How can you conclude that a phone turned to a level of being 50% brighter than another phone shows poorer blacks. It's like saying that a red car has worse braking than a blue car from a test done while driving the red car 50% faster.

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  • 2012-06-05 16:47
  • vxKC

it very nice mob i like it ....gsm saportin other brnd i thing

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  • 2012-06-05 14:04
  • vG@p

> In reply to chrisx @ 2012-06-04 18:18 from wc7c - click to readput in water

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  • 2012-06-05 14:03
  • vG@p

Widen up your view people. Go read multiple reviews. Bashing simply because you only follow 1 P.O.V really sounds like rigid-minded extremist.

Other professional reviews rant more on GB-not-ICS out of the box, but praise the display and average battery life "from their 1 week use of the phone as their daily driver".

gsmarena... what have you turned you readers into? :P

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  • 2012-06-05 03:49
  • PUi6

Hmmm... Now I can see why I prefer real-life-feel review from "The Verge". But I still love gsmarena for the more detailed technical review.
Best tech info + best real life opinion = Almost perfect picture of the device :D

Anyway already bought my Xperia S. 1day+ battery life with my light browsing/gaming/chatting. I guess not being in the social network bandwagon saves me a lot of time, money, trouble, and unnecessary anxiety/need to check+update status. :P

Internet really has turn people to attention-poor skimmers who know everything but nothing... LoL

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  • 2012-06-05 03:39
  • PUi6

> In reply to Guy @ 2012-06-04 23:27 from 0C0H - click to readIt doesn't show poor black. Read the results carefully and you will see that they made that judgement while having the phone up much brighter than other phones and probably brighter than it needed to be.
this review is a screen and battery nightmare. Can gsmarena please retest and analyse where needed

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  • 2012-06-05 02:42
  • UFGN

why u guys want to buy a phone which display shows poor black is beyond my understanding

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  • 2012-06-04 23:27
  • 0C0H

> In reply to rush @ 2012-06-04 12:53 from uvgb - click to readAdreno is proprietary Qualcomm gpu series, and are integrated on their system on chip family - Snapdragon and Krait chipsets.

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  • 2012-06-04 20:43
  • vfxa

I'm using it right now, everything looks owsum except it has a very weak network comparing with my iPhone that I'm using it at the same time!!

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  • 2012-06-04 20:27
  • p7A}

my camera shutter key is not working please help!

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  • 2012-06-04 18:18
  • wc7c

please tell me that xperia p is having mali 400 gpu or adreno 205?? The pdf provided by sonymobile site states that SX P is having adreno....
and
Bluetooth 2.1 in xperia p will make any difference with the phones having bluetooth-3.0??but i dont want theoritical answer as i know that 2.1: having 3MbPS speed and 3.0: having 24MbPS data transfer rate....please someone state the practical difference....

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  • 2012-06-04 12:53
  • uvgb

lol "smart tag" another xperimental s**t from sony, haha good job for magicwhite! best unnovation ever lol

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  • 2012-06-04 06:27
  • v0Xt

Every technological innovation is moot when it doesnt have the capacity to utilise the innovations.
Whitemagic was meant to help increase power efficiency but sadly it has failed. Sony has done a big mistake with the battery. Maybe they over estimated the efficiency of the NovaThor chipset and counted too much on the Whitemagic tech. The Galaxy s Advance has the same chipset,with a power efficient Super AMOLED and 1500MaH batery. Sony could have a learned a thing or two from this phone..and realise that the NovaThor isnt THAT great -_-

However, it will find buyers among those who want a good looking phone and dont do heavy tasks regularly like wifi browsing or gaming.

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  • 2012-06-04 06:03
  • utuY

> In reply to Ray M @ 2012-06-04 05:29 from vjuP - click to readIf you've read the review more carefully, you'd have found it does not:
It clearly says the bottom part (which holds the antenna) is plastic so there's no death-grip.

I like this phone; except for 3 things.

1) metal is cool - but scratchprone. My 1year old E55 with Aluminum back looks like trash

2) No micro-SD. Seriously? How hard can it be to put a card slot in?

3) Pathetic battery. I love all the NXT phones (esp. Sola) but a 13xx battery? Wasted!

Also, Sony Ericsson became SONY a while ago- you need to get out more.
:)

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  • 2012-06-04 05:52
  • tRnj
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