Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro, the new generation Xperia smartphone has touchscreen plus QWERTY slider format. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro has ergonomic design and sports Timescape user-interface along with Android v2.3 Gingerbread operating system. It’s multi-touch reality display is basically a LED-backlit LCD, capacitive touchscreen that displays 16M colors. It is sized at 3.7 inches with 480X854 pixels resolution. This smart and fast Android phone is powered by Sony Mobile BRAVIA Engine and runs on Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon 1 GHz processor. Its physical dimensions stand at 120X57X13.5mm and it weighs 140 grams. The mobile surface is scratch-resistant and its other touch-screen features include accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate and proximity sensor for auto turn-off. Colours in which this smartphone is available are Black, Silver and Blue.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro is completely a multimedia based smartphone endowed with stereo FM radio with RDS and Android music player. MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ formats are played on its player that can also perform TrackID music recognition. With HDMI recording, its video player can play MP4/H.264/WMV formats and with HDMI port, these videos may be played on TV, other external surfaces and phone simultaneously. With support of Adobe Flash 10.1 support, online videos can also be watched on this smartphone with utmost ease.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro has a commendable primary camera of 8 Mega Pixels that clicks pictures at 3264x2448 pixels resolution.There is autofocus and LED flash also in this camera that allows touch focus, geo-tagging, face and smile detection. The Exmor R CMOS sensor present in this phone let users capture quality pictures and videos even in dim light conditions. Videos can be made in 720p@30fps with continuous autofocus and video light. There is HD video recording and facility of HDMI connector. There is a secondary camera of 2 mega pixels in the phone that facilitates video calling feature on the handset.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro has a monstrous phonebook memory with inherent capacity of 320MB that is capable of practically storing unlimited phonebook entries, photocall and call records. Its free memory can even be expanded via the microSD card to up to 32GB. The 8GB microSD card is already included inside the handset for free.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro has a standard Li-Ion battery rated at 1500mAH whose performance may vary depending on usage and configuration of the phone. This robust battery easily delivers brilliant standby by performance of maximum 430 hours on GSM connection while it lowers down a bit on 3G HSDPA connection to just 400 hours. The talk time delivered by the handset is around 7 hours on both 2G and 3G connections which gives music playback of 12 hours.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro has stereo speakerphones and 3.5mm audio jack that facilitates music listening on this phone.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro boasts extremely capable connectivity feature which includes DLNA compatibility which let users of Xperia Pro connect to all DLNA compatible devices. There is stereo Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, USB mass storage in form of microUSB v2.0 and USB port that enables people to get connected with the PC or laptop. Its HDMI port feature let users connect the device to TV, projector etc and view pictures and videos on an external large screen. Most contemporary connectivity feature included in the phone is Wi-Fi in configuration 802.11 b/g and 3G connection.

With Type & Send feature that prevents the inconvenience faced by users to open a dedicated application for each type of message and Smart Keyboard of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro which let users do predictive messaging actions automatically just as the keyboard opens, this handset seems a great phone for this purpose. Last but not the least, one must know that messaging features enabled on this phone are SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM and Push Email.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro gives quite a wonderful and fast browsing experience to its users as it comprises of in built Android HTML Web browser kit that works at blazing speed with 3G HSDPA connection. Other goodies are Twitter and Facebook integration for direct social networking, Timescape user-interface along with more than 10,000 apps that may be gathered from the Android market.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro works on quad-band GSM connection in configuration of 850/900/1800/1900 and HSDPA in two configurations 850/1900/2100 and 900/2100 MHz respectively.

On 3.7” multi-touch reality screen of Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro, gaming is a delight. Users may play motion-based games and JAVA-based games on this phone both the pre-installed ones and those which are downloaded.

With Google location services like A-GPS present on the phone, Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro smartphone allows navigation. Digital compass and Google Maps are embedded in the phone and assist in navigation.

Running on Android platform with v2.3 (Gingerbread), Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro is smart and a fast performer. This gen-next smartphone gives superb multimedia functionality via its 8 MP camera and music players, its most wonderful features.Its connectivity options are by far quite commendable with Wi-Fi support, Bluetooth, USB port and its ability to connect to any DLNA compatible device. Messaging feature is most outstanding feature of the phone with type and send and smart keyboard features included in the phone.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro is a desirable piece of gadget that would let users socialize, entertain and work all equally fast. It also features FM radio, HD connectivity and Timescape user-interface. Running on Android v2.3 Gingerbread and MobileBravia engine, Xperia Pro is endowed with set of impressive features viz. the 8.1 MP camera with HD video, HDMI output, 3.7 inch reality display, DLNA support, Wi-Fi and 3G HSDPA connection. It has wonderful video output features that work with any Android app, including the web browser and the preinstalled Office Suite Pro app. This smartphone can easily be used as a laptop to give presentations.

Battery life of Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro could have been better to support all the applications and features under its hood. The pictures taken by its camera looked a bit grainy especially those clicked in dark. Timescape user interface is not that efficient and phone’s pinch-to-zoom out gesture is also not so good.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro can easily be touted as Vivaz Pro successor. This Android 2.3 smartphone is a smart business phone with dual advantage of QWERTY keypad and touch-screen. Its 3.7” multi-touch reality screen lets users view pictures and videos on this phone in vivid colours. HD recording ability with an extra-ordinary 8.1MP camera is just superb just as its 3G capabilities, expandable memory and 1500mAH battery. Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro has been announced as Sony Ericsson’s forthcoming handset at recent Mobile World Congress held in February of 2011.The phone is expected to land in Q2 of 2011 at a price around Rs. 26000.