Sony Xperia M dual Review

The Sony Xperia M is a 4-inch screen Android smartphone that’s certainly no Xperia Z1 or Japan-bound Xperia Z1f. You don't get the 20.7-megapixel camera or HD screen of those phones, but for Rs.11,379 what you do get are some pretty decent specs.
The Xperia M also manages to adopt some of the sleek design traits from its more expensive Xperia compatriots to make it a great cheap Android phone.

Box contains Following Accesories

Screensize and Camera

The display is arguably the most important component of a smartphone - it's the bit you look at and use as your interface. And it's also the difference between cheap and budget - with a good display you can feel that you have a proper smartphone, with a poor one a toy. With early inexpensive Androids in particular a low-resoution, low-quality display makes the whole handset feel like more of a toy than a sophisticated tool.

With a 4-inch TFT 854x480 screen resolution the Xperia M sits around the two year-old Samsung Galaxy S2 in terms of quality.The 245 ppi pixel density means it's never going to give you Retina-like clarity, but for reading web pages, text is nice and clear.

The Xperia M sports a 5Mp camera with an LED flash. Default images are captured at 3Mp / 16:9. To take 5Mp pics you have to change the settings, and accept a 4:3 aspect ratio. HDR mode is present, although you'll want to avoid using it indoors. There's a decent list of software features including manual settings for white balance and ISO, as well as a range of filters. Other features include Ggeo-tagging, touch focus, image stabilization and panorama.

Battery and Android Version

One of the benefits of a cheap phone is that low specs tend to mean good battery life. In the case of the Xperia M: very good battery life. This is not unusual for handsets with relatively low-res displays.

The Xperia M sports 1,750mAh cell, and in our usage we could get a couple of days out of it without really having to moderate our general smartphone use. A great performance.

Xperia M Dual is equipped with 4.1 Jelly Bean which can be further upgraded to higher version of Android.

Processor and Memory

The Xperia M is not badly tricked out in terms of performance. It pairs a dual-core Krait Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227 CPU with 1GB RAM, the chip running at 1GHz and paired with an Adreno 305 GPU.

Onboard storage is a miserly 4GB, or which only 1.5GB was available for use on our virgin test unit. Not nearly enough if you like to use your phone for, well, just about anything beyond the occasional phone call.

Fortunately you can add in a 32GB SD card, which is a good.So,this phone provides better performance in terms of processing and we can expect major tasks without any lags on phone.

Connectivity and Additional Features

You get 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, and it is dual-band. There's also Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and USB. The Xperia M takes a Micro SIM and is 2G and 3G enabled.

Summary of Features

Display and design

• 4", 16 million colours, 854 x 480 pixels
• Scratch-resistant
• Capacitive touchscreen with on-screen QWERTY keyboard

Camera and video

• 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and Auto focus
• 4x digital zoom
• Face detection
• Front-facing camera for video calls
• Geotagging
• HD video recording (720p), up to 30 frames per second
• Quick Launch
• Red-eye reduction
• Sweep Panorama
• Touch focus

Memory

• RAM: 1GB
• Flash memory: Up to 4 GB
• Expansion slot: microSD card, up to 32 GB

Connectivity and communication

• 3.5 mm audio jack (CTIA)
• aGPS
• Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology
• DLNA Certified
• Media Go
• Native USB tethering
• NFC
• PC Companion
• Screen mirroring
• Synchronisation via Exchange ActiveSync, Google Sync and Facebook
• USB High speed 2.0 and Micro USB support
• Xperia Link
• Wi-Fi and WiFi Hotspot functionality

Networks

• UMTS HSPA+ 900 (Band VIII), 2100 (Band I) MHz (not available in all markets)
• UMTS HSPA+ 850 (Band V), 1900 (Band II), 1700 (Band IV), 2100 (Band I) MHz (not available in all markets)
• GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz

Entertainment

• PlayStation Certified
• Sony Entertainment Network (selected markets only)
• Motions gaming
• Video streaming
• 3D games
• FM Radio with RDS
• Audio playback, supported formats: MP3, 3GPP, MP4, SMF, WAV, OTA, Ogg vorbis
• Audio recording, supported formats: 3GPP, MP4, AMR

Pre-loaded applications

• Google Play*
• Google Chrome*
• Google Voice Search*
• Google Maps for Mobile with Street view and Latitude*