I have purchase 'Sony Xperia Sola' on 24th December 2012, so I am sharing my experience and observation with you, for clarity in three headings:
Vantages:
1- Hardly hangs in any of the operations
2- Amazingly reactive touch screen
3- Great themes, especially its main picture
4- Good provided ringtones
5- Wow, picture quality
6- SmartTags are a good thought, but for those who have to open few things at the same time
Minuses:
1- No front camera, alasss.......
2- Speakers are not that powerful, and also they are behind the mobile but has 3D surround sound enhancement which is even Sony Xperia's prime mobile Xperia Z lacks
3- It hurts when your friend's Samsung having good WIFI signals, and you're Xperia Sola is disconnecting off and on (It happened only once, but Sony has a very high standards, so I am writing it as a minus even it happened only once)
4- Android version is 2.3.7 (Gingerbread), you may find information that its upgradable to Android 4.0 (Ice cream sandwich) but when you try to update software through 'Sony PC Companion 2.1' it says that softwares are already updated, so you may have to find another way
5- Setting Alarm, you can easily understand from one example, i.e. if the time is set 2:30 and you want to set it to 3:00, then you have to scroll minute section 6 times.
Neither good nor bad:
1-Its new technology of 'Magic Touch or Floating Touch', after the enhancement of this technology this can be the future delight but not now, you need hours and hours practice to touch the icons, all you can do easily with this is to play with the theme's main picture but the wallpaper which animate with magic touch its phenomenal
2- Battery life is neither great nor very bad but somewhere in between
Conclusion:
All in all a very good mobile for those who wants to purchase a good Android mobile which is not very expensive.
For more about this phone:
http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/phones/xperia-sola/
and
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_sola-4408.php
Vantages:
1- Hardly hangs in any of the operations
2- Amazingly reactive touch screen
3- Great themes, especially its main picture
4- Good provided ringtones
5- Wow, picture quality
6- SmartTags are a good thought, but for those who have to open few things at the same time
Minuses:
1- No front camera, alasss.......
2- Speakers are not that powerful, and also they are behind the mobile but has 3D surround sound enhancement which is even Sony Xperia's prime mobile Xperia Z lacks
3- It hurts when your friend's Samsung having good WIFI signals, and you're Xperia Sola is disconnecting off and on (It happened only once, but Sony has a very high standards, so I am writing it as a minus even it happened only once)
4- Android version is 2.3.7 (Gingerbread), you may find information that its upgradable to Android 4.0 (Ice cream sandwich) but when you try to update software through 'Sony PC Companion 2.1' it says that softwares are already updated, so you may have to find another way
5- Setting Alarm, you can easily understand from one example, i.e. if the time is set 2:30 and you want to set it to 3:00, then you have to scroll minute section 6 times.
Neither good nor bad:
1-Its new technology of 'Magic Touch or Floating Touch', after the enhancement of this technology this can be the future delight but not now, you need hours and hours practice to touch the icons, all you can do easily with this is to play with the theme's main picture but the wallpaper which animate with magic touch its phenomenal
2- Battery life is neither great nor very bad but somewhere in between
Conclusion:
All in all a very good mobile for those who wants to purchase a good Android mobile which is not very expensive.
For more about this phone:
http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/phones/xperia-sola/
and
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_sola-4408.php
My related blog:
Review on 'Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro', Nokia 101 & Samsung C160 Mobile Phones, its Vantages and Minuses
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