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The XPERIA X2 comes with 10 panels preinstalled - the default Sony Ericsson Tilewave one, CNN, Facebook, Google panel, Growing Panel, WinMo default Today screen, SPB Mobile Shell, Pixel City and XPERIA Services one.
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The panels can be set in a timeline switching automatically at scheduled times for user-defined intervals. The XPERIA panels is the last item on this menu and logically collects all the panels you have installed and allows you to browse them with finger sweeps.
#Xperia spb windows
For example when you start a new message or open a whole email, you are thrown back onto the less than pretty Windows Mobile interface. It collects all your pictures, music, videos and games and packs them into its own gallery, music and video players.īut the amazingly nice custom menu is quite shallow in places. The Media department will sure ring a bell for Sony Ericsson users. The menu consists of seven items - Call history, Messages, Calendar, Media, PlayNow, Sony Ericsson Sync and Panels - most of them with plenty of subsections. This menu is nicely touch-optimized, sort of a blend of the popular Sony Ericsson Media center and the Windows Mobile default homescreen. Instead there is a shortcut to a new Shortcuts menu. There is no dedicated panels' hardware button as there was on the XPERIA X1. Instead, Sony Ericsson have concentrated on developing the XPERIA Panels UI and have put quite a lot of effort into integrating it tightly with the WinMo OS. We're yet to see whether or not Sony will do better but if you're looking for a capable smartphone in the 300 euro range, the Xperia SP should be high on your short list.As Sony Ericsson have not gone for customizing the whole Windows UI, it's got a more vanilla look here as compared to what you can see on Samsung or HTC smartphones. Last year, HTC had a similar thing going on with the One X and the One S but failed to capitalize on the width they had through those two excellent devices. Sony is doing the right thing by offering a midrange smartphone hot on the heels of their two flagships.
#Xperia spb android
The Samsung mid-ranger does sweetens the pot with its arguably more feature-full Android Jelly Bean build, though.
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#Xperia spb 720p
The Premier features a more impressive 720p AMOLED screen, but its dual-core CPU is however inferior to the Xperia SP processor. Samsung also offers an alternative to the SP in the form of the Samsung Galaxy Premier. The Geforce GPU on the Tegra 3 chipset won't hold a candle to the Adreno 320 in the Xperia SP, but the quad-core processor and lower pricetag will. Launched last June, the phone may not be the freshest offering on the market right now, but LG has done well to give it the 4.1 Jelly Bean treatment. LG offers another serious competitor in the LG Optimus 4X HD. Keep in mind that the Nexus 4 is only a deal worth considering if you can get it from the Google Play store in your country - otherwise, it's prohibitively expensive. Even better, you get quad-core Krait performance alongside all the latest updates directly from Google. If you can stomach the rather limited (and non-expandable) internal storage, the Nexus 4 provides a near identical HD screen, twice the RAM, and a superior 8MP camera. Google's own offering with the LG-made Nexus 4 is perhaps the closest match in both price and features. It should definitely keep an eye on some of last season's quad-core smartphones, but probably not fear them too much. Long story short, we believe the Sony Xperia SP to be one of the most compelling packages in the new midrange. The battery is non-user-replaceable but the memory card slot is a welcome improvement over the Sony Xperia P, which is the Xperia SP predecessor.
#Xperia spb 1080p
Overall, the still camera is somewhat of a disappointment but the 1080p videos partially make up for that. The Xperia SP shares another important similarity to Sony's flagship line in the inclusion of the Adreno 320 GPU, which offers an impressive graphics performance thanks to its lower resolution screen. And the transparent LED strip at the bottom gives it extra style points - all the while being quite usable too. While the styling is not as sharp as that of the Xperia Z flagship, the Xperia SP's more traditional shape makes it pretty attractive in its own right. We are looking at a more than reasonably powered and competitively priced smartphone with an HD screen, whose robust performance and capable hardware make it the hidden gem in Sony's growing lineup. The midrange Android market has long been a Sony stronghold, and is becoming ever more enticing with offerings like the Xperia SP.