Sony Xperia V Review

Sony Xperia V is an impressive Android phone released back in 2012, coming with a great 1500 MHz Dual-Core processing unit, a 4.3-inches multi touch screen, and two cameras, a 13 MP back camera and a 0.3 megapixels front-facing camera. That's everything we have to say? Not at all, it's just the shortest summary in history.

Sony made this cellphoneavailable just in 3 different color options: black, pink and white. While the Sony Xperia V is thin and comfortable it's not even close to being one of the thinnest cellphones currently available, with a thickness of 0.42 inches. Sony did an amazing optimization job making the Sony Xperia V as lightweight as 4.23 oz.

This device is equipped with a spectacular 4.3 inches display with a 1280 x 720 (HD) resolution, providing this device with a high level image quality. Its display uses TFT capacitive technology, and has multi-touch detection.

Sony decided to power this cellphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 chip, backed up by an exceptional Dual-Core CPU speeding at 1500 MHz and only 1 GB RAM which is a bit low for a phone this powerful. Graphic intensive apps and games generally uses lots of CPU cycles, so it also has an extra 400 megahertz Adreno 225 GPU to help handle those graphic tasks. The Sony Xperia V has anice 8 GB internal storage and an external SD slot, which allows the user to store hundreds of games and applications without running out of space.

The Sony Xperia V features WiFi capability (which it can share with other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot), LTE 4G great performance connectivity and also HSPA+ internet connection, a lower speed 4G technology and 3G fast data connection, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. The Sony Xperia V works with a SIM card for GSM services.

The Sony Xperia V is equipped with two cameras, a 13 MP back side camera and a 0.3 megapixels front camera. It also captures 1920x1080 Full HD videos. To complete the camera, it also has many interesting features: auto-focus, flash, face detection shooting, digital image stabilization, smile detection shooting, geo tagging and HDR mode.

The Sony Xperia V also includes a few nice features like NFC, Bluetooth and GPS Navigation, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

This cellphone counts with a 1750 mAh medium capacity replaceable battery that can keep this phone running for some hours, although you will need to charge it after some moderate use. Sony reports a stand by time of 300 hours and a talk time of 7 hs for this device.

This cellphone costs 195 dollars, which is quite high for comparing with other similar phones. No matter whether you want a social phone, will use it as a work device, want this phone for playing games or want it to take many pictures, this phone is definitely a good choice for you. Sony sells the Sony Xperia V with micro USB cable for charging, and user documentation, synchronisation and file transfer and Charger.