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GSMArena team, 22 April 2013

E-lementary


Sony Xperia E review: E-lementary

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  • User reviews
  • Xperia E

1. Introduction
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, 360-degree spin, design and build quality
  3. 3. Display
  4. 4. User interface, synthetic benchmarks
  5. 5. Phonebook and telephony, messaging and text input
  6. 6. Gallery, video and music players, audio quality
  7. 7. Still camera and image quality comparison, video camera
  8. 8. Connectivity, web browser
  9. 9. Organizer, Google Maps, Play Store
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Sony Xperia E specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (68)

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Introduction

Well, this sounds like an apt title really. The Sony Xperia E is among the cheapest packages on offer from Sony, second to only the Tipo. From the design theme of the first generation of Sony smartphones, to the familiar internals, the Sony Xperia E has little to no surprises. Especially that we've actually seen its twin already.

The Sony Xperia E and Xperia E dual are nearly identical, with the number of SIM slots the only notable hardware difference. It boils down to what makes more sense to you as a user - dual-SIM support or the more recent Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean.

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Sony Xperia E official pictures

When talking entry-level smartphones, a single-SIM package usually has to try harder to make itself noticed. Dual-SIM versions are usually regarded as niche devices but they have the benefit of a clearly defined target audience. There's a lot of competition in Sony Xperia E's price bracket, and not just droids either. Yet, Jelly Bean right out of the box gives it a good enough start. Let's take a closer look at what else it has to offer:

Key features

  • Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and -band UMTS support
  • 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
  • 3.5" 256K-color capacitive TFT touchscreen of HVGA resolution (320 x 480)
  • Android OS v4.1.1 Jelly Bean
  • 1 GHz Cortex-A5 CPU, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227A chipset
  • 512 MB of RAM
  • 2GB of user-accessible built-in storage (4GB total)
  • microSD slot (32GB supported)
  • 3.15 MP fixed-focus camera, geo-tagging
  • VGA video @ 30fps
  • Wi-Fi b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
  • GPS with A-GPS
  • Accelerometer and proximity sensor
  • Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
  • Stereo FM radio with RDS
  • microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1
  • User-accessible battery, Li-Ion 1530 mAh

Main disadvantages

  • Feeble chipset and uninspiring performance
  • Mediocre screen quality
  • Fixed-focus camera, No LED flash
  • Video recording No front-facing camera

The Sony Xperia E is yet another Qualcomm-powered 3.5-incher for Sony in the entry level market. It's got the upper hand over the likes of the Tipo and Miro (clocked at 800MHz), and probably even the Xperia J which is has the exact same 1GHz chipset but a bigger and more pixel-rich FWVGA screen. Bottom line, no record-breaking speed is to be expected here but the Xperia E will most likely get the job done for first-time smartphone users.

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Sony Xperia E studio pictures

So, the main thing to try and find out here is whether a reasonably good-looking basic smartphone will prove an equally reasonable performer. As usual, we'll start with our traditional hardware overview right after the break.

Next Page » 2. Unboxing, 360-degree spin, design and build quality
1. Introduction
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, 360-degree spin, design and build quality
  3. 3. Display
  4. 4. User interface, synthetic benchmarks
  5. 5. Phonebook and telephony, messaging and text input
  6. 6. Gallery, video and music players, audio quality
  7. 7. Still camera and image quality comparison, video camera
  8. 8. Connectivity, web browser
  9. 9. Organizer, Google Maps, Play Store
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Sony Xperia E specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (68)

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Sony Xperia E review: E-lementary - Reader comments

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  • limestone steve
  • Bw@
  • 01 Jun 2016

Cheap price so don't expect miracles Camera usable and limitations with storage You get what you pay for.

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  • AnonD-340973
  • mxv
  • 12 Dec 2014

Every time I log on facebbook it crashes and then restarts it self

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  • nE0n1nja
  • dMK
  • 04 Oct 2014

THis is a horrible phone! Why? It has 600 MB "Phone" memory, which is separate from the 2 GB internal memory. It fills up pretty damn fast and now I can't update any of my apps because I get "Insufficient storage space available" ...

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