The Sony Xperia T2 Ultra phonebook is integrated with the dialer using a tabbed interface - the Contacts, Phone, Favorites and Groups tabs can be side-swiped. The contact list has a dedicated search filed plus it offers and an alphabetical scroll bar.
The phonebook • The quick contact shortcut • Favorites • Account sync
You can sync with multiple accounts, including Exchange and Facebook, and you can selectively show or hide contacts from some accounts (as well as filter specific groups in an account), or set the phonebook to display only contacts with phone numbers or only contacts that are online.
Linking contacts is available, quick contact feature is here too.
Receiving and making calls on the Xperia T2 Ultra was nothing short of pleasing. Unlike its bigger counterpart, this phone fits better in the hand, so long calls are more comfortable. It helps that it's lighter too.
The dialer support smart dialing.
Sony Xperia T2 Ultra scored a Good mark in our loudspeaker tests, meaning you are unlikely to miss some calls and notifications if you are in a noisy environment.
Sony has preloaded a number of features that modify how the speaker sounds. We tested with all of them off, then with xLOUD on, but that made very little to no difference.
Speakerphone test | Voice, dB | Ringing | Overal score | |
60.1 | 58.3 | 61.6 | ||
64.0 | 61.7 | 65.1 | ||
65.5 | 62.0 | 65.8 | ||
Apple iPhone 5s | 68.7 | 66.3 | 69.2 | Average |
67.0 | 66.6 | 75.0 | ||
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo | 68.4 | 4.4 | 75.8 | |
67.2 | 69.8 | 75.7 | ||
Samsung Galaxy S4 | 70.6 | 66.2 | 77.3 | |
74.0 | 66.6 | 75.7 | ||
71.3 | 72.5 | 75.7 | ||
Oppo N1 | 73.7 | 67.7 | 78.7 | |
74.6 | 71.3 | 82.7 | Excellent |
Text messages and MMS use standard thread layout. Adding multimedia (photos, videos, sounds, etc.) will convert the message automatically into an MMS.
The messaging app • Adding multimedia turns it into an MMS
Naturally the Gmail client and the default Email apps are onboard. Gmail can sync only with (multiple) Google accounts, while the generic Email app can handle POP and IMAP and offers a Combined inbox.
As for text input, the Xperia T2 Ultra offers a customized on-screen full QWERTY keyboard, which is very enough.
You can choose a different layout (keypad, QWERTY, QWERTY with extra symbols), add/remove the coma and period button, the smiley and voice input buttons and also enable things like bilingual word suggestions if you have more than one language enabled. Different keyboard skins are available too.
Xperia T2 Ultra keyboard is comfortable in either layout • Settings
You can also try the so-called Gesture input if hitting those keys individually doesn't give you the desired typing speed. It's similar to Swype, and even if you've never used a Swype-like input before you'll quickly get used to it.
One-handed keyboard is available too, only in portrait orientation. If enabled it squeezes the onscreen keyboard to the left or right side of the screen.
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