Sony Xperia E1 Review

Sony Xperia E1 is a good cellphone launched in January 2014, coming with a 4 inches screen, a 3 megapixels back facing camera and a Dual-Core CPU clocking at 1200 MHz.

This device feels a bit heavy for a cellphone of this size, with a weight of 4.23 oz. Sony is offering this phone in three different color options: black, purple and white.

This phone has a good level 800 x 480 4 inches screen, providing this phone with a good level graphical experience. This screen uses TFT capacitive technology, and can detect multi touch gestures.

This phone is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 MSM8210 chip, holding a powerful 1200 MHz Dual-Core processor and 512 MB of RAM memory. Graphic rendering usually consume lots of processor cycles, so it also has a 400 megahertz Adreno 302 graphic processing unit to help the processor with those tasks. This cellphone has a 4 GB internal storage memory, a fair amount that should be adequate for the average user knowing that it also has an SD card slot to store photos and videos and even some applications that allow being installed in the external memory.

This phone has Wi-Fi capability (which it can share with other devices as a mobile hotspot), HSPA+ (4G) data connection, that is not as fast as LTE or LTE-A 4G networks and fast 3G internet connection, over HSDPA, HSUPA and EDGE technologies. The Sony Xperia E1 uses two SIM cards so it can to work with two different phone numbers or carriers.

The Sony Xperia E1 is only equipped with a 3 mega-pixels back facing camera. To complete the camera, it also features lots of useful features: auto-focus, face detection shooting, digital image stabilization, HDR mode, smile detection shooting and geo tagging.

This cellphone counts with a mid capacity 1750 mAh removable battery that provides the Sony Xperia E1 a below average battery duration. According to Sony, the Sony Xperia E1 has a reported 498 hs stand by time and a 8.2 hs talk time.

This cellphone also features some interesting characteristics as Bluetooth and GPS Geolocation, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

The Sony Xperia E1 is priced around 189 dollars, not a really offer for this kind of phone. No matter if you want a social device or want a gamer device, you will definitely be very pleased with this cellphone.