The rest of the jet black face does little more than conceal the front VGA camera, speaker grill and sensors. The rear isn't exactly a feature-full landscape either, with a matte finish white battery cover and the usual holes for the camera, flash and speaker keeping the Sony Mobile logo company.
Put this all together, and you get a fairly satisfactory, but not remarkable, slice of phone. Much like the Xperia S before it -— given that the similarities are many —- the baby U has its fair share of potentially dust-gathering ridges. The angular design is partly responsible, but the LED bar and removable cap serve up multiple channels for the daily dirt buildup to hide in. It's not terribly problematic, just an unwelcome side effect of the otherwise functional form.
The LED bar also poses another tiny problem, at least during your first few days with the phone. Hidden beneath it are the back, home and menu icons that correspond to the touch-sensitive navigation buttons above it.
When whipping the handset out of your pocket to quickly do something, you can find yourself mashing the redundant LED strip i. Sure, you'll get used to it soon enough, but it's counter-intuitive to begin with, and only further highlights the curious use of space. That is until you see the humble, transparent strip's party trick. When browsing images, that innocent piece of plastic will adopt a chameleon-like ability to match the dominant color of your photos and album art.
The same is true for the prevailing tone of your theme. When the bar lights-up, it'll be with matching luminosity. Nothing more than a trick, but a cute one nonetheless. Lastly, that screen. It might not have inherited the WhiteMagic sorcery bequeathed to the Xperia P , but it definitely has no problems making itself seen when drenched in solar gold. That FWVGA display does have the appearance of being somewhat long, but again, that might be more to do with the dimensions of the phone, rather than the aspect ratio given that it's bang-on We did notice, however, that under direct light, a dotted grid can clearly be seen.
This is only while the screen is black or in stand-by, and doesn't affect the quality when in use. In our experience, photos and videos came out brightly with bold colors, and provided a pleasing visual experience, which brings us neatly to The Xperia S might be able to boast a double figure megapixel count 12 in fact but for the U it's firmly back down in the more pedestrian single numbers: five.
This might be a good thing, considering the phone only has 8GB of storage, and only four of those are available to the user. You should never be a slave to the peer pressure though, as five megapixels with a good sensor behind it can still be a winning combination. Is that the case here however? All in all, we're saying yes. This isn't a phone that particularly sells itself on its camera credentials, and as such, it just kind of gets on with the job.
You can see from the sample shots yourself that quality is a bit of a mixed bag. Give this camera some good, healthy spoonfuls of sunshine, and it'll serve up vivid, reasonably sharp shots. However, snatch some of that light back or, rather, have conditions do it for you and the Xperia U starts to get a little upset.
Some of our sample shots were taken in a slightly overcast London. While light was in reasonable supply, the default settings auto everything left some of the images washed out, almost feeling like there is a thin, misty veil over the lens.
When the sun did come out to play, though, this cleared up a treat, giving crisp and bright images. Our guess, however, is that if you are eyeing this phone as something to potentially live with, the 5-megapixel shooter, set to default, will do just fine for those candid moments and occasional memories you need to preserve.
It might come as no surprise, then, that video mode fares just as sufficiently. You're not going to be filming any masterpieces, but it's adequate for YouTube fodder.
Our sample video below caught lots of vibrant inner-city wildlife, but some pixelation can be seen when movement is sudden. All in all, it's a very average affair. Before you groan about the out-of-the-box Android 2. How to find out the version of my platform? Show brand list. Select platform. Games Wallpapers Ringtones Live wallpapers Program. Page information:. Download any Sony Xperia U theme without any payments! On our site you can find many beautiful free themes - Sony Xperia U looks really cool with new high quality backgrounds.
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