Stylish and sporty. Review of Sony Xperia Go

Relatively recently, Sony announced two series of phone Xperia - Go and Acro S, which are already on sale. Both are smart phones that combine style and charm of the Xperia line and protected from dust and water body. Now I will tell more about the first of these two smartphones - Xperia Go, which is positioned as a tool for people involved in sports or outdoor activities.

Design, building, display 

As I mentioned in the introduction - the smartphone was "inherited" by the beauty of the line Xperia. Sony successfully combined the classic rectangular body and slightly rounded corners. About design can say a lot, good and bad, but it's really something that looks right phone among other highlights. Xperia Go comes in 3 versions coloring case - yellow, black and white, and they all look very impressive, especially the white and yellow combined with black trim screen.

The phone itself relatively small size and fits into even small hands and does not slide. On the right side has the volume keys and plug Micro USB-input, and at the bottom, on the corner between the right and the bottom there is a hole in the strap to the hand. On the upper side is a button lock and enable \ disable the smartphone, and it is located unconventionally - to the left. Much inconvenience this causes, you can get used to very quickly. On the left edge is a plug standard 3.5 mm audio jack. Frankly, I would like to make it was located on the upper side, next to the lock, because this location is a small problem when wearing smart phone in a pocket and the headset is connected \ headphones.

The back of the visible logo Sony Ericcson, Xperia stylish lettering and speaker, as well as camera, flash, and microphone. Assembling satisfactory, especially after reading reviews. Our specimen creaked and body sags under pressing the volume keys, some - on the other side. Although the responses of users on Twitter - some of this problem is not observed. Also, on some models the battery cover is removed fairly easily, while our specimen she sat quite tight. I would also like to complain about the lack of key shooting photo \ video.

Phone is protected according to IP67 - can be kept under water to a depth of 1 m, and it is protected from dust.Under the cover - the protective cover of bright blue bays for MicroSD memory cards, as well as a rather convenient removable tray for SIM-cards. Yes, there are the usual SIM-card, despite the prevalence of micro-version, but Sony took care of the customer and put the adapter in the package.

On the front side there is a TFT-LCD display size of 3.5 inches and a resolution of 320 × 480, which is certainly a drawback. Display size can be forgiven, all the same, not all important to have a great smartphone, but visibility in the sun is almost zero, and especially disappoint resolution, but more on that later. Picture-in-principle, granular, if not consider the display under a magnifying glass, bright and saturated, especially with proprietary Sony Mobile BRAVIA, which is activated when viewing photos and video to provide an even better display quality. Below the display are three touch buttons - the "back", "home" and "function." The screen itself, as it were slightly above the hull itself, that looks very interesting. Glass here, "mineral", is also protected from damage. Although, to be honest, when working scratches were more visible than fingerprints.

The Hardware, operating systemThe device is equipped with Android 2.3.6 proprietary shell Sony, as well as a large assortment of pre-installed software from Sony and for the athletes.

Sony Xperia Go equipped with an NovaThor U8500 Dual-core Cortex A9 processor with a clock speed of 1GHz and 512MB of RAM. Overall system performance is good, but given the reboot phone once a day or two. The user can have about 190Mb of memory after the phone, which is not particularly high.Skin and shell Sony pleasant, running smoothly. Used to unlock the phone gesture Slide-To-Unlock, and in the same way, you can activate the camera - just hold your finger in the opposite direction. On the desktop standard are 4 icons on the bottom line - a folder with applications for active recreation and sports icon Google Play - app store, a shortcut to the application SMS and dialing the middle of the same - the menu key.Pre-installed on the phone a lot of useful widgets and programs, and it is a definite plus. Weather widget tumble Real Feel - in fact there is the temperature outside, the widget settings for quick access - Wi-Fi, GPS «no sound", etc. Widget for Facebook, news widget, you can make shortcuts to a particular point settings - just freedom for lovers set all by himself and for easy access.Xperia Go supports communication standards GSM GPRS / EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900, UMTS HSPA 900, 2100 (worldwide except North and South America), UMTS HSPA 850, 1900, 2100 (North and South America). Supported Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, DLNA, and set Bluetooth 3.0. Its primary function - call - phone consult, and does it well. Interlocutor can hear clearly.Multimedia applications, the autonomy 

8GB of memory in the phone, but is available for the user's needs of about 4GB. A small volume, which is compensated memory cards up to 32GB, which is a big plus.Smartphone Discreetly different technologies and applications from Sony. There is also technology xLoud, which increases the volume and to control clock LiveWare SmartWatch and other enhancements, and MobileBRAVIA, which was mentioned earlier, branded integration with Facebook, TrackID and Unlimited for music lovers. As emphasized that the smartphone is aimed at people who prefer sports and active lifestyles, it is worth mentioning embedded applications - "Compass" (the name speaks for itself), WalkMate for counting steps and logging, miCoach - a program for training of Adidas (at I could not start it), FigureRunning - allows you to create a shape to run on it. Not turned over and the application "Flash."The browser is quite fast, although small screen and a resolution, you can have a lot of information. And sometimes there was a problem with the sensor - no response to touch. Ie No scrolls, for example, though not pressed any buttons.Music player for standard line Xperia, and is divided into two tabs - "play" and "my music." In the first, respectively, displays currently playing song in the second - your music collection. If you do not include the above-mentioned technologies xLoud the sound is not quite as loud as the speakers and headphones. But that's when the xLoud everything changes in a much better way.Now on to the third-party applications. Google Play them in quite a lot, though there were problems. I have not worked for Twitter-client Slices, Hotmail and application work properly (when you try to access the folder - the application is closed).Now let's talk about the most important part - offline. The battery in your smartphone is set to 1305mAh. The conditions were not the most complex: ~ 2 hours of music, the constant synchronization with push-notifications 2 mailboxes, about 40 minutes surfing the Internet, almost constant use social networks, and multiple SMS. With this mode the phone from 9:00 am to 17:00 discharged to 20-25%, not the desired result. But quite bearable in the end there is power saving mode.Camera. Honestly - pumped up. In Xperia Go module installed at 5MP. Setting a lot, even present panorama and 3D-view. But here's a decent quality images are obtained only at a very good light, but in other cases - a lot of noise. See examples of photos here.
Sony Xperia Go
For ~ 14t.r. Sony offers us a secure, stylish, comfortable, with expandable memory and a full supply of proprietary technologies and sporting applications smartphone Android. Not without its flaws - is the display is not quite convenient location audio jack, a small amount of memory, and not the best camera. Choice in principle not difficult - if you need just phone for outdoor activities - the perfect solution for your money.

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