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GSMArena team, 09 May 2014

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Sony Xperia T2 Ultra review

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6. Phonebook, telephony, messaging, text input
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, 360-degree-spin, design and build quality
  3. 3. Display, controls, battery life
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Synthetic benchmarks and performance
  6. 6. Phonebook, telephony, messaging, text input
  7. 7. Gallery, multimedia players, FM radio, audio quality
  8. 8. Camera, image quality, video recording and quality
  9. 9. Connectivity, web browsers, app package
  10. 10. Final words
  11.  
  12. Sony Xperia T2 Ultra specification
  13. Sony Xperia T2 Ultra dual specification
  14. Review comments (125)

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Phonebook

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.

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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.

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Contact options

Linking contacts is available, quick contact feature is here too.

Telephony

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.

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Smart dialing is available

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 testVoice, dBPink noise/ Music, dBRinging phone, dBOveral score
Sony Xperia Z60.1 58.361.6Below Average
Sony Xperia Z Ultra (xLOUD)64.0 61.765.1Below average
Sony Xperia Z1 (xLOUD)65.5 62.065.8Below average
Apple iPhone 5s68.766.369.2Average
Huawei Ascend Mate67.0 66.675.0Good
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo68.4 4.475.8Good
Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.367.2 69.875.7Good
Samsung Galaxy S470.6 66.277.3Good
Sony Xperia T2 Ultra (xLOUD)74.0 66.675.7Good
Oppo Find 7a71.3 72.575.7Very Good
Oppo N173.7 67.778.7Very Good
LG Optimus G74.671.382.7Excellent

Messaging and text input

Text messages and MMS use standard thread layout. Adding multimedia (photos, videos, sounds, etc.) will convert the message automatically into an MMS.

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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.

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Gmail and Email apps

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.

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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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One-handed keyboard • Skins

Next Page » 7. Gallery, multimedia players, FM radio, audio quality
6. Phonebook, telephony, messaging, text input
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Unboxing, 360-degree-spin, design and build quality
  3. 3. Display, controls, battery life
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Synthetic benchmarks and performance
  6. 6. Phonebook, telephony, messaging, text input
  7. 7. Gallery, multimedia players, FM radio, audio quality
  8. 8. Camera, image quality, video recording and quality
  9. 9. Connectivity, web browsers, app package
  10. 10. Final words
  11.  
  12. Sony Xperia T2 Ultra specification
  13. Sony Xperia T2 Ultra dual specification
  14. Review comments (125)

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