Sony Ericsson Xperia Active Review

Sony Ericsson Xperia Active is a decently made cellphone released many years ago, coming with a powerful 1000 megahertz CPU, a 5 mega-pixels back camera and a small sized 3 inches multi-touch screen.

Sony equipped this phone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon S2 MSM8255 chip, backed up by a good performance processor running at 1 GHz with 512 MB of RAM memory. Graphic intensive games and apps usually consume a lot of CPU cycles, so the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active has an extra 245 MHz Adreno 205 GPU to help the CPU with those tasks. This cellphone has a little 327,68 MB internal storage memory, which might be enough for basic users considering the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active also has an SD memory card expansion slot to store songs, photos and videos.

Sony didn't put much effort to reduce weight in this 3.91 oz phone, way heavier than other similar cellphones. This phone is a little bit thick for today's standards, with its 0.65 inches thickness.

This device has an average 3" display with a 480 x 320 resolution, giving this phone a decent image quality. Its display uses TFT capacitive technology, and is multi-touch enabled.

This phone provides WiFi connection (which it can share with other devices around, as a mobile hotspot) and fast 3G internet connection, using HSPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone works with a SIM card for GSM services.

This phone has only a 5 megapixels back facing camera. This phone can also film HD 1280x720 videos. To complete the camera, it also features a high number of amazing features like flash, digital image stabilization, auto-focus, face detection shooting, geo tagging and smile detection shooting.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Active also comes with a couple interesting features like Bluetooth (allows communication with other bluetooth phones, computers and accessories) and GPS, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Barometer and Compass.

This cellphone packs a 1200 mAh low capacity Li-Ion replaceable battery providing this phone with a below average battery duration. This device has an estimated 351 hs stand by time and a 4.9 hours talk time according to Sony.

This cellphone is really expensive considering it is priced $ 300, while some similar phones are being sold for much less than that. When you buy this cellphone you also receive Exchangeable cover, microUSB cable for charging Synchronisation and file transfer, user documentation, 2GB microSD memory card, Wrist strap, Charger, Sport stereo headset and Arm case.