Sony Xperia E3 Review

Sony Xperia E3 is a solid phone launched in 2014, provisioned with an exceptional Quad-Core CPU speeding at 1200 MHz, a medium sized 4.5 inches screen, and 2 cameras, a 5 mega-pixels back-facing camera and a 0.3 MP front facing camera.

This cellphone is much lighter than what one would expect from a phone like this. The Sony Xperia E3 is offerred in three different colors, black, green and white. This phone is just 0.33" thick, making its way into the thinnest cellphones podium.

Sony decided to equip this phone using a high-tech 1200 MHz Quad-Core CPU, included in a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8926 system chip with only 1 GB of RAM which is a little bit disappointing for a phone of this quality. Graphic rendering usually eats lots of processor time, so it uses an additional Adreno 305 graphic processing unit speeding at 450 megahertz to take some work out of the processor. This phone has a fair 4 GB internal storage, which is enough for the vast majority of users having that this phone also has an SD extension slot to store songs, photographs and videos and even some apps and games that allow external memory installation.

This phone has two cameras, a 5 mega-pixels back camera and a 0.3 megapixels front-facing camera. It also captures videos in 1920x1080 (Full HD). In addition, this phone's camera also counts with many great features: flash, digital image stabilization, auto-focus, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting, geo tagging and HDR mode.

Sony packed this phone with a interesting 4.5-inches display, and a 854 x 480 resolution, providing this cellphone with a good level graphical experience. Its display uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch for gestures like pinch and zoom.

This phone counts with wifi connectivity (and it can share it with other devices acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE (4G) high speed connectivity and also HSPA+ internet connection, a bit slower 4G technology and 3G fast data connection, using HSDPA, HSUPA and EDGE technologies. This phone uses a SIM card to connect to GSM networks.

This phone comes with a 2330 mAh inmense removable battery that can keep this cellphone running for several hours, although you may need to charge it after some heavy use. According to Sony, this phone has a reported talk time of 12.3 hours and a stand by time of 706 hs.

The Sony Xperia E3 also features a couple of nice features like Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS Geolocation, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

Sony is selling the Sony Xperia E3 for $ 249, which is a very high price for a phone this level. It doesn't matter whether you will use it as a gamer cellphone, want a social device or will use it for work, you will probably love this device.