Sony Xperia E1 Review

Sony Xperia E1 is a mid level Android phone released some years ago, in 2014, packed with a 3 MP back-facing camera, a powerful Dual-Core processor clocking at 1.2 GHz and a medium 4" multi-touch screen. Let's take a closer look at what this phone has to offer.

Sony appears to have forgotten about weight optimization in this 4.23 ounces phone. Sony made this cellphoneavailable just in 3 different colors: black, purple and white.

Sony packed the Sony Xperia E1 with a good looking 4" screen, and a 800 x 480 resolution, which makes it hard to see the pixels taking part of the screen. Its screen uses TFT capacitive technology, and can detect multi touch gestures.

Sony decided to sell this device with a fast Dual-Core processor running at 1200 MHz, included in a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 MSM8210 system chip with 512 MB of RAM memory. Helping with graphic intensive apps, it also counts with an Adreno 302 GPU speeding at 400 megahertz. This phone comes with a 4 GB internal storage memory, a fair quantity that should be adequate for the average user considering it also has an SD memory slot to store songs, photographs and videos and even some apps that allow being installed in the external memory.

This device is only equipped with a 3 mega-pixels back side camera. Additionally, the camera features a large number of amazing characteristics like auto-focus, digital image stabilization, face detection shooting, smile detection shooting, geo tagging and HDR mode.

This cellphone packs a 1750 mAh mid capacity battery that can keep it running for many hours, but you may need to charge it if you use it heavily. This cellphone has an aproximate stand by time of 498 hours and a talk time of 8.2 hs according to Sony.

This cellphone counts with wifi connection (which it can share with other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot), 4G (HSPA+) data connection, that is not so fast as LTE-A or LTE 4G networks and 3G fast internet connection, over HSDPA, HSUPA and EDGE technologies. This phone uses a SIM card for GSM networks.

This phone also features a handful of interesting features like Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Localization, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This cellphone costs $ 210, which is expensive for a phone this level. No matter whether you are looking for a social device or need a phone for playing games, this cellphone is definitely very appropiate for you.