Sony Xperia SX SO-05D

Today we’re going to review the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D. This is one of the three newly announced phones from Sony. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D is a really powerful phone, however, it’s sort of limited. This phone is known to only come out in the Japan market. While there has been much protest and plead world-wide for this phone to be released in other places as well, little is known whether or not the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D will actually come out in any other country than Japan. What you will find here are the Official Preliminary Specifications, so the phone may or may not be a bit different from what you will find here. However, these being the official specs, you can trust me on the fact that the phone will be very similar to what you can find here.

Without further ado, lets begin this little review.

GENERAL

First off we’ll be taking a look at the more general aspects of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D. Here you can find out a bit of info about the supported networks and the announcement and release dates of the device. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D, apart from supporting both 2G and 3G networks, also has support for 4G ones. Those networks are as follows : GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900 ( the 2G ones ), HSDPA ( the 3G ones — it isn’t specified which HSDPA networks ) and LTE 2100 ( the 4G one ). This phone was announced in May 2012 and the official release date is to be somewhere around Q3 of 2012. That’s about it for the generals, let us move on now.

BODY

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the body of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D. Here you can find out a bit of info about the size and weight of the device as well as find out whether or not the device has any body-related particularities that we should be aware of. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D is around 115 x 54 x 9.4 mm big and weighs somewhere around 95 grams. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D also has Touch-Sensitive Controls instead of buttons. That’s it for the body, let’s move on.

DISPLAY

Next up is the display of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D. Here you can find out a bit of info about the screen type, the screen size, the screen’s resolution and pixel density as well as whether or not the screen has any protection and any particularities that might make it stand out from a crowd. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D has an LED-Backlit LCD capacitive touchscreen with approximately 16 million colors. The screen of this device is around 3.7 inches big and can fit a resolution of approximately 540 x 960 pixels. The pixel density of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D is a phenomenal one : approximately 298 ppi, which is quite a lot considering that the human eye can perceive up to 300 ppi. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D also has Multitouch, although, it doesn’t seem to be the advanced kind of Multitouch. Sadly, the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D doesn’t seem to have any screen protection, so you’ll have to be really careful with it. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D also has Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine on it and Timescape UI, should you choose to activate it. That’s about it for the display, let’s move on.

SOUND

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the sound of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D. Here you can find out a bit of info about the Alert Types, speaker and audio jack as well as see whether or not the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D has any sound enhancements on it, be them software based or otherwise. The Alert Types of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D are : Vibration and MP3 Ringtones. This phonr also has a Loudspeaker and a 3.5 mm jack on it. Sadly, it’s pretty basic as far as sound goes since it has no sound enhancements on it whatsoever. Since there’s nothing left to say here, let us move on to next part.

MEMORY

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the memory of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D. Here you can find out a bit about the RAM of the device, its internal storage space and ways of expanding that storage space. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D has 1 GB of RAM on it, which means it’s pretty good since that is the current maximum for the RAM. The storage space of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D is around 8 GB and if that isn’t enough, know that the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D has a Micro SD card slot capable of using any Micro SD card of up to 32 GB. That’s about it for the storage space, let’s move on.

DATA CONNECTION

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the connectivity of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D. Here you can find out a bit about the GPRS and EDGE of the device, the Speed and WLAN and the Bluetooth, USB and other, if any, connections. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D has both GPRS and EDGE. It isn’t specified what Class they are, but it is specified what speed they can reach : the GPRS reaches up to 86 KB/s and teh EDGE goes up to 237 KB/s. The Speed of the device can be classified as following : HSDPA at 14.4 MB/s, HSUPA at 5.76 MB/s and LTE ( with 25 MB/s Upload speed and 75 MB/s download speed ). The WLAN of this phone is a Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n with Wi-Fi direct, DLNA and Wi-Fi hotspot. The Bluetooth of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D is a v3.1 one with A2DP. This phone also has an Infrared port, something I haven’t seen in a while. The USB port of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D is a Micro USB ( MHL ) v2.0 one. That’s enough for the connectivity of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D, so let’s move on.

CAMERA

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the camera of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D. Here you can find out a bit about the main and secondary cameras of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D, their features and their capabilities. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D has an 8 MP main camera capable of photographing at resolutions of around 3264 x 2448 pixels. The features of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D are : autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, 3D sweep panorama and image stabilization. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D’s main camera can record in 1080p full HD at around 30 frames per second. The video recorder of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D also has a lot of features such as : continuous autofocus, video light and video stabilizer. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D also has a secondary 1.3 MP camera which can record in 720p HD with around 30 frames per second. That’s about it for the camera of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D so let’s move on.

BATTERY LIFE

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the battery of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D. Here you can find out a bit about the camera type of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D and how long it can function. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D has a Standard Li- Ion 1500 mAh. Sadly, it isn’t mentioned how long it can function, so we’ll have to move on to the next part out of lack of subjects to talk about.

HARDWARE

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the hardware of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D. Here you can find out a bit of info about the three main hardware components : processor, motherboard and graphics card. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D has a Dual-Core 1.5 GHz Krait processor. This powerful processor is accompanied by a Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon chipset and an Adreno 225 GPU. That’s enough for the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D’s hardware, so let’s move on.

SOFTWARE

Next we’ll be taking a look at the OS of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D. Here you can find out a bit about the software version of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D and whether or not it can be upgraded to a better one. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D has Android OS v4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich installed on it. There’s no need for any apparent update, at least, not for another year or so, since this is the best version of OS for phones at the moment. That’s about it for the software, now let’s move on to the last part of this little review.

FEATURES

Last but not least, we’ll be taking a look at the more random features and capabilities of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D. The sensors of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D are as following : Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Proximity and Compass. The messaging on the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D can be done via : SMS ( with Threaded view ), MMS, E-Mail, IM and Push Mail. The browser of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D uses HTML 5 and has integrated support for Adobe Flash. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D also has a Radio with TBD and a GPS with A-GPS support. This phone also has Java through Java MIDP emulation. The Sony Xperia SX SO-05D is available in a wide array of colors : Black, White, Pink and Orange. Out of all of those, I must say, in my opinion the Black one looks best since the frontal part of the phone is Black on all models and it fits best with the Black plastic on it.

Here is a list of what the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D can do :

• MicroSIM card support only
• Mobile FeliCa client
• TV-out (via MHL A/V link)
• Digital TV and TV launcher
• SNS integration
• Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
• MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
• MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player
• TrackID music recognition
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
• Document viewer
• Voice memo/dial/commands
• Predictive text input

This concludes our little review of the Sony Xperia SX SO-05D. If you feel that anything is lacking from this review feel free to leave your suggestions in the comment section below for things which should be added and I will be sure to take them into consideration when writing my future projects. In the meantime, I sincerely hope you had as much fun reading my little review as I had writing it.