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GSMArena team, 18 October 2012

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Sony Xperia miro review: You too

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  • User reviews
  • Xperia miro

5. Phonebook, telephony, messaging
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, 360-degree view, design and build quality
  3. 3. Display and handling
  4. 4. User interface, synthetic benchmarks
  5. 5. Phonebook, telephony, messaging
  6. 6. Gallery, music and video players, audio quality
  7. 7. Still camera and quality comparison, video camera
  8. 8. Connectivity, web browser, document viewer and organizer
  9. 9. Google Maps and Play Store
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Sony Xperia miro specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (105)

Sony Android Touch UI

Social phonebook

The visually customized phonebook of the Xperia miro is virtually the same as on vanilla Android and can store extensive contact information. A tabbed interface allows you to access your contact list, recent calls, and info from social networking services.

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The phonebook • The quick contacts can save you a click or two • the available options

The contact list can be sorted by either first or last name. There are two contact search options - a dedicated search field on top of the contact list, and an alphabet scroll to jump to names starting with a specific letter.

Quick contacts are enabled - a tap on the contact's photo brings up shortcuts for calling, texting or emailing the contact.

You can sync with multiple accounts, including Exchange and Facebook, and you can selectively show or hide contacts from certain accounts (you can fine-sift specific groups from an account), or set the phonebook to display only contacts with phone numbers or only contacts that are online.

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Filtering contacts in the phonebook

If a contact has accounts in multiple services, you can "link" their details to keep everything in one place. Their Facebook photos and interests (part of the Facebook integration) will show as extra tabs.

Each contact can have a variety of fields (and repeat fields of the same type), there's an Add field button and the X button lets you remove fields as needed. The fields cover anything from names (including a field to write the name down phonetically) to addresses, nicknames and notes.

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Viewing and editing a contact

There is an option to redirect calls directly to voicemail, and custom ringtones are enabled too.

Capable, but quiet telephony

Receiving and making calls on the Xperia miro was trouble-free. Calls were reasonably loud and clear even in noisy environments.

The phone app features smart dialing which searches for matches in both the contacts' phones and names. The call log is integrated in the dialer - it shows a list of recently dialed, received and missed calls in the top half of the screen and the keypad on the bottom half. Once you start typing, the call log is replaced by the smart dial list. You can hide the keypad the make more room for the call log.

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Smart dialing is available only for numbers

Thanks to the proximity sensor, the Sony Xperia miro automatically disables the touchscreen when you lift it up during a call.

We also ran our traditional loudspeaker test on the Sony Xperia miro, and the results weren't bad. With xLOUD turned off the phone got a Below Average mark but turning xLOUD on turns it into a whole other beast entirely. If you often miss your calls, we suggest keeping this option on at all times. More info on our loudspeaker test can be found here.

Speakerphone testVoice, dBPink noise/ Music, dBRinging phone, dBOveral score
Sony Xperia sola60.959.061.7Below Average
Sony Xperia miro (no xLOUD)65.0 62.166.6Below Average
Sony Xperia tipo65.761.771.8Below Average
Apple iPhone 4S65.8 64.574.6Average
HTC Desire C64.6 64.775.7Average
Samsung Galaxy mini 2 S650069.7 66.671.5Average
Sony Xperia miro (xLOUD)69.7 64.675.9Good
Sony Xperia Go68.7 65.876.2Good
Sony Xperia neo L65.8 65.476.9Good
Motorola RAZR XT91074.766.682.1Very Good
HTC Desire76.675.784.6Excellent

The usual messaging integration

Text messages and MMS use a standard threaded layout. Each thread is displayed as an IM chat session, with the most recent message at the bottom. You can manage individual messages (forward, copy, delete) and even lock them against deletion.

Search is enabled to locate a specific message in all conversations and you can also activate delivery reports.

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The messaging app

Adding multimedia (photos, videos, sounds, etc.) will convert the message to an MMS.

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Composing a message • Attaching an image automatically makes it an MMS

Moving on to email, the Gmail app supports batch operations, which allow multiple emails to be archived, labeled or deleted. The app supports multiple Gmail accounts, but there's no unified inbox for other email services.

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Gmail app supports batch operations and multiple (Gmail) accounts

However, the generic email app can do that as well. It can handle multiple POP or IMAP accounts and you have access to the messages in the original folders that are created online.

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The generic Email client has a combined inbox option

Google Talk handles Instant Messaging. The GTalk network is compatible with a variety of popular clients like Pidgin, Kopete, iChat and Ovi Contacts.

As for text input, the Xperia miro offers a customized on-screen full QWERTY keyboard. Typing on the portrait keyboard is not as convenient as on some of the larger screens seen in the Xperia line, but is still fairly comfortable.

Flipping the phone to landscape gives you even bigger, easier to press buttons.

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Xperia miro keyboard

You can also try the so-called Gesture input if hitting those keys individually doesn't give you the desired typing speed. It works the same as Swype, and even if you've never used Swype input before, you'll quickly get used to it.

Next Page » 6. Gallery, music and video players, audio quality
5. Phonebook, telephony, messaging
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, 360-degree view, design and build quality
  3. 3. Display and handling
  4. 4. User interface, synthetic benchmarks
  5. 5. Phonebook, telephony, messaging
  6. 6. Gallery, music and video players, audio quality
  7. 7. Still camera and quality comparison, video camera
  8. 8. Connectivity, web browser, document viewer and organizer
  9. 9. Google Maps and Play Store
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Sony Xperia miro specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (105)

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  • User reviews
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