Hello, this is my first review and since i like my Sony Ericsson Xperia pro so much, I'd like to make a review about it as the beginning of my blog. I will focus later on about technologies, computers. mobile phones, websites and somehow about cars too.
Lets get back to the topic and lets start.. First, I have the black Xperia pro and i have it now for 20 days. So I'm still learning.
A brief about the phone in general, in just one word, PERFECT.
And a note before i start, this is my first Android experience (But not new to Sony Ericsson) and I'm still getting used to it and I'm loving it so far. So i might mention some silly points about how good is Android but this review is just for the people who loves the phone and new to Android. (and for everyone else of course..)
Anyways, lets get started. I will divide the review into parts and each part will talk about something about the phone.
The first thing I'm going to talk about is the phone itself and the hardware.
Starting with the back cover, it is plastic and feels plastic but it feels great at the same time. Although it feels shaky somehow on the top. It is annoying but you will just feel its normal after some time. The curve of the back cover is perfect, you will feel comfortable when you type with the keyboard with this curve. Negative thing, the cover will leave your fingerprints marks on it easily.
The screen is great. Bright. You can choose if you want the brightness to be auto set by itself or you just choose the brightness level that you want. But it is suggested to keep it in auto, as you would never feel if the brightness level has changed. Under the sunlight the screen is Very good and i can see the screen clear with no problems.
The keyboard is just really well designed. I'm writing this review from the phone. It is really easy to type and you will learn it fast and you will start typing fast even without looking at the keyboard. And the keyboard is very clear and nice at night.
Back, Home and Menu buttons are nice. No problems with them. The LED lights between the buttons are nice and clear white.
Back camera (or main camera), 8.1 megapixel and HD video recording is just a perfect camera. Photos are so clear and the HD video recording is really HD and so clear. And the sound of the video is perfect, thanks to the secondary back mic where when you record a video, that mic will take the sound from it.
Exmor R is doing great job at dark conditions, you can see everything somehow clear on the camera.
Two annoying things about the camera, one is the button, its small and its position is wrong. And the position of the camera itself. Sometimes you hide the camera by your finger by mistake. Would be better if the camera was just in the middle just like the Neo. But you can overcome these issue by touching the screen to capture photos and hold the phone in a way that you can avoid your finger to cover the camera.
The features of the camera is that you can capture 3D photos (in Android version 2.3.4), and it's doing great job. There are face and smile detection and the the video recording has continuous auto-focus and it's fast. Panorama photos are perfect too, but make sure the lighting condition is good else the picture will not be that clear.
The LED flash is good and its bright too, it lights up the dark room.
Front camera is VGA and its a normal VGA camera. You can use it for video calls over Google Talk and Skype but not the regular video calling. Because its an Android thing where they don't support this type of video calling. Not sure why though. You can use the camera also to capture pictures. Picture quality is OK.
The position of the USB port is somehow annoying too. It can be placed in better place but looks like they ran out of places and they just put it on the top. Thanks to the L shaped USB cable where when you use the keyboard with the charger on, you will not feel it's placed in a wrong position.
Power button and audio level control buttons are placed in a perfect position and i had no issues with them at all.
The speaker is disappointing. The quality is average but it is loud when you play music. But when watching video or play games it is very good and loud too. Using the speaker on calls is below average but again it is loud too. So i would call this is a downside about the Xperia pro. But the good thing that it's loud, like VERY loud.
The mic is perfectly perfect and the listener have a very crystal clear voice from you. Again thanks to the secondary mic in the back where it cancels all the noises around you.
The notification LED is right above the HDMI port, its nice, colorful, there are some kind of applications where you can choose the color of the light for whatever thing you want.
I guess this is it for the hardware.
I might wrote some negative points but we have all to be honest, some people might regret buying something because they have some kind of issues, so that is why I like to mention every positive and negative thing. And the negatives that i mentioned don't really bother me at all. I'm loving this phone and I'm really glad that i have it.
If you have any question regarding Xperia pro and about its hardware please feel free asking me in a comment below or on twitter @ahmed89x .
As i said, i will write small reviews about everything in parts. Again feel free asking me questions and please post any thing you would like me to test and i will be glad to write about that in the next parts.
Thanks for your time for reading my review and looking forward for your comments.
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Is the keyboard s backlit pre installed on all pro phones!!!!!!!!! i seen sum of them not cuming with backlit keyboard???
ReplyDeleteAlso tel me whether is it available in Doha,Qatar??????Plzzzzz
ReplyDeleteis there on call recording features
ReplyDeleteis there add call note features
thanx for the review , its perfect
ReplyDeletei like this phone too , and i want to ask about
3d games & does it have " gpu 205 "
hi,
ReplyDeletethe review was nice...........
just wanted to know whether the phone has a magnetometer sensor for enabling the compass....
also pls tell me whether it supports DLNA technology and how good is its battery back up ??
To Hammza:
ReplyDeletego thro this link!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_(system_on_chip)
thanx again , & god bless you
ReplyDeleteand i wish if you can join us in SE4M forums
for xperia pro at this link :
http://www.se4m.com/forums/t61016.html
for more sharing
thanx
thanx Rjun for info
ReplyDeletei saw it before 2 or 3 monts ago
but i dont understand why they dont write it
in specification on gsmarena & other sites ;
like the other phones like mini pro ,play,arc & neo
@Rjun, Thanks for your comments, for the backlit of the keyboard, yes it has, it's actually if the room has a good lighting condition, it will not light up so it wont waste battery life, but at night, it's bright and you can see the keys very clear.
ReplyDeleteas for the availabiltiy in Qatar, I'm not sure, but I live in Dubai and they are selling it everywhere, the middle east website of Sony Ericsson shows that it is available, check with the shops, someone should has it in this case.
@suniel, No there is no on call recording, and I'm not sure about the add call note, i will check later on and i will post it in the next review :)
@hammza, Thanks a lot for your comments, regarding the 3D games, yes the games are in 3D graphics and there are good number of free games on the Android Market, even it comes with pre-installed Lets Golf game and it has 3D graphics. I have made some searches now and i found out Xperia pro has gpu 205.
I checked your forum and i will join you guys soon, it looks good :)
Thanks a lot.
@ckanil619, Yes it has magnetometer senser and you can install a compass from the Android Market and it works perfectly fine. DLNA technology is there and i tested it, works perfectly fine too. About the battery, if you use a lot of WIFI and some calls with some GPS, you will have to charge your Xperia pro for every 18 hours or so. WIFI itself eats a lot of battery...
Thanks a lot all and please subscribe and follow, a lot is coming soon from my side :)
thanx ahmed you made me rally happy
ReplyDeleteim waiting for you joining us in our best forum SE4M
my nike name in there is يااسين
& i'll keep following your news here & there ان شاء الله
تحياتي
@ Ahmed.....
ReplyDeletecan u change the different wallpapers in the pro n mail the snaps to my id plz!!!!!!!!also diff snaps of pro!!!!! i wanna c the clarity so oly!!! rjun2kr@gmail.com
@hammza, شكرا لك اخي وان شاء الله سأشترك قريبا و شكرا لنشر مدونتي
ReplyDelete@Rjun, yes you can change wallpapers, there are Live wallpapers too (animated wallpapers). in my next review i will post some pictures and snaps so stay tuned, tell me what exactly you would like to see so I would post the ones that you want ;)
لا شكر على واجب اخي الكريم
ReplyDeleteفالاعمال الرائعة و المفيدة تستحق الإهتمام و النشر
لتعم الفائدة للجميع
كما ان هذا الهاتف لم ياخذ حقه من الاهتمام العربي و العالمي مثل الهواتف الأخرى
ارجوا ان يكون الريفيو الذي ستقدمه مرجعا متكاملا لهذا الهاتف الرائع
بالتوفيق ان شاء الله ، و متابعك للآخر
تحياتي
SE website shows there is no FB integration in Xperia Pro...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/compare?cc=in&lc=en#p=996861,1022974,921768
Ur word on it plz...
@ ahmed:
ReplyDeletei know v can change the wallpapers!!!! i want u to change the diff walpaper n take those snaps n mail to my id ..this s wht i m asking!!!!
@hammza, شكرا لك على التعليق المشجع.. و أؤيدك بموضوع عدم الاهتمام الكافي للهاتف مع انه من ضمن افضل الهواتف المتواجدة..
ReplyDelete@A F Hashmi, the website does state there is Facebook inside Xperia version 2 AND Facebook application, and anyways there is Facebook integration in Xperia pro ;)
@Rjun, i'm sorry but i really dont understand what you mean or what you want... do you mean you want the default or the pre-installed wallpapers on the Xperia pro?
@ ahmed:
ReplyDeleteclearly let me say!!! i want u to change te wallpaper in the phone n take the snap of the screen..again change the wallpaper n take the snap of tht phone screen..lik this u take the snaps n mail me !! got it!!!!
@Rjun, alright man its clear now. Will do it soon and ill email them to you. And chill you dnt have to be mad, i just didnt get what u mean at the beginning :)
ReplyDelete@ ahmed:
ReplyDeleteits k man..plz do send asap!!!!
@Ahmed.........
ReplyDeletethanks man.......... and do u know any online stores from where i can buy the phone at a cheaper price ?????????
At what price did u buy it and from where ??????
Thanks in advance
@ckanil619, Sorry my friend, i dont know from where you can buy online at cheaper price, i would suggest you do some searches about that, would recommend buying it from real store.
ReplyDeleteI bought it from Dubai, from Axiom Telecom store, at price of 490$ and it came with screen protector, HDMI cable and car charger (other than the default accessories you can say that are the headset, USB cable and charger)
كيف حالك اخي احمد مر زمن طويل :)
ReplyDeleteانشاء الله احوالك تمام
عندي سؤال عن صيغ الفيديو التي يمكن للجهاز تشغيلها
هل يمكن تشغيل صيغ mkv , avi , rmvb بدقة
720 hd & 1080 hd بسلاسة خاصة ان تعدى حجمها 1 جيقا بايت
و نهاية اسبوع سعيدة
مرحبا اخي. بصراحة لم اجرب الفيديو بشكل مكثف.. لكن صورت فيديو طويل عالي الوضوح وحجمه كان فوق الجيجا.. و عندما شغلته من الجهاز لم اواجه اي مشكلة.. سلس للغاية و صافي.. اتى مع الجهاز فيديو تجريبي عالي الوضوح.. يشتغل بسلاسة و من دون اي مشاكل..
ReplyDeleteلكن اخي اعدك سأقوم بتجريب الافلام وسأخبرك كانت التجربة..
الفيديوهات من اليوتيوب عالية الوضوح تشتغل بسلاسة ايضا.
شكرا لمتابعتك واتمنى لك اسبوع جميل.
وللتوضيح التأخير في الرد وكتابة المدونة الثانية هي ظروف العمل فا اعتذر على التأخير و ان شاء الله سأحاول الكتابة بوقت قريب
@ Ahmed
ReplyDeletewher r the snaps dude ??????
Sent it already today. Thanks.
ReplyDeletehi ahmed,
ReplyDeleteI want to buy new samartphone. I m so much confused b/w Galaxy S2 n xperia pro. Pls suggest me which phone is best. I like xeperia pro but the negative think in this phon is, he has not video calling.
Pls suggest i will go galxy or pro.. reply me soon. my mail id is - ankit31995@gmail.com
عيد مبارك و كل عام و انت بخير
ReplyDelete@Smarty, well i didnt really use the Samsung Gallaxy S2.. And i heard a lot from different ppl that samsung phones hangs a lot and they are slow
ReplyDeletetalking about the video call, as far as i know that it is an Android issue not a brand issue.. You can video call using gmail or skype from the Xperia pro.
Ill give a plus point the Xperia pro since it has a physical keyboard.. In the end ill suggest you getting the Xperia pro
@hammza وانت بألف خير اخي و اتمنى انك استمتعت بالعيد
Thx ahmed, but day b4 yesterday i had brought new galaxy s2 and this fone is amazing. touch screen is supereb and there is no haging problem and speed is also vry good. In this fone video quality n camera quality is too good. As per my opinion if anyone purchase new fone around budget of 25 to 26 k, then you should go to samsung galaxy s2. n u said video calling is android issue not a brnad issue but in galaxy n xperia pro both have using same android version but in galxy s2 have video calling. in weight Galaxy s2 so much light instead of xperia pro n xperia pro having front camer VGA but in s2 front camera is 2mp n s2 hve dual core processer but xperia have single core processoer. as per my view galaxy s2 much more better than xperia pro.
ReplyDelete@Smarty, first congratulations for getting the new phone. in the end it's a personal decision my friend :) and thats what i was saying, if you are looking for the best Android phone that has all the WOW specifications, then you've got the right one, Xperia pro is great but it doesnt have the perfect specification you can say.. but for me I was looking for a phone that has a physical keyboard, so the Xperia pro was the best phone for me.
ReplyDeleteAs for the video call, that was my knowledge that it was an Android issue, so thanks for correcting me about this :)
Anyways have fun with your new phone and using Android ;)
Thank u so much Mr. Ahmed.
ReplyDeleteعام سعيد ومبارك علينا و على الامة الاسلامية
ReplyDeleteصارلك زمان ما فيه جديد , عسى انك بخير.
ام انها ظروف العمل :-)