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GSMArena team, 22 April 2013

E-lementary


Sony Xperia E review: E-lementary

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9. Organizer, Google Maps, Play Store
  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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Organizer apps

The Sony Xperia E comes with the OfficeSuite 6 viewer. OfficeSuite 6 lets you view almost any type of document, although you'll have to pay to get the Pro version if you want editing capabilities as well.

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OfficeSuite 6 handles all your documents

There's also a Notes app that comes with the Xperia E. It's pretty simple to use - you can select the color of the note and just start typing or doodling. There's also an option for Evernote integration.

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The Notes app

The calendar has three different types of view - daily, weekly and monthly. The lower section of the screen is reserved for a list of upcoming events. Adding a new event is quick and easy, and you can also set an alarm to act as a reminder.

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The organizer centerpiece - the calendar

The Calendar also pulls info on upcoming events from your Facebook account. Facebook events appear just like regular calendar entries, except that you can't edit them from the app.

There is also a calculator aboard. It is nicely touch optimized - the buttons are really big and easy to hit. You can expand to reveal advanced functions (trigonometry, logarithms).

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Regular Calculator • Scientific Calculator

The alarm clock app supports multiple alarms, each with its own start and repeat time. The Alarms app can also work as a desk clock - you have a big toggle for the brightness, as well as weather info and shortcuts to gallery slideshow and the music player. There's no world clock, stopwatch or timer though.

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The Clock • Creating alarm

For everything else not included, the Google Play store is full of free apps that will cater to all your organizational needs.

Google Maps handles the navigation

The Sony Xperia E comes with a GPS receiver and A-GPS functionality for near instantaneous locks using network data. Alternatively, network positioning will do if you only need a rough idea of your location.

Google Maps is a standard part of the Android package and we've covered it many times before. It offers voice-guided navigation in certain countries and falls back to a list of instructions elsewhere.

3D buildings are shown for some of the bigger cities and you can use two-finger camera tilt and rotate to get a better view of the area.

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Google Maps

Google Maps uses vector maps, which are very data efficient. The latest version has an easy to use interface for caching maps - you just choose "Make available offline from the menu" and pan/zoom around until the desired area is in view (there's an indicator showing how much storage caching that area will take). You can later view cached areas and delete ones you no longer need.

Note that there's a limit to the size of the area you can cache - you can't just make the entire United States available offline, not even a single state. We managed to fit New York and some of the surrounding area before Maps told us the size is too big. There's no address search either in the cached maps and you can only cache map data in supported regions of the world.

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Making an area of the map available for offline usage is very easy

You can plan routes, search for nearby POI and go into the always cool Street View. The app will reroute you if you get off course, even without a data connection.

The Play Store

Running on Android JB, the Xperia E has access to a huge number of apps from the Android Play store but the limited amount of onboard storage means you'll need to be careful with large apps or just look for ones that support microSD card install.

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The Google Play Store

The Store is organized in a few scrollable tabs - categories, featured, top paid, top free, top grossing, top new paid, top new free and trending. The in-app section is untouched though and it's very informative - a description, latest changes, number of downloads and comments with rating. There is usually a demo video and several screenshots for most apps.

Next Page » 10. Conclusion
9. Organizer, Google Maps, Play Store
  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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