Sony Xperia Tipo was launched along with smartphones running Android Sony Xperia line includes Sony Xperia Go, Sony Xperia T, Sony Xperia Sony Xperia J and Sony Xperia V.
Sony Xperia Tipo runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, in terms of the technical details, this is definitely the outstanding features of this smartphone.
Sony Xperia Tipo (also known as the ST21i) is priced equal Huawei Ascend G300, Samsung Galaxy Y and the LG Optimus L3. In other words, it was in the line of cheap smartphones running the Android operating system.
The first thing disappointing for Sony Xperia Tipo you it is quite thick (13mm). Meanwhile, its height is 103 mm and the width is 57 mm.
MicroSD memory card and SIM card can only be obtained by removing the battery. It is an unfavorable position, especially for a microSD memory card slot, while the memory capacity of 2.5 GB will quickly used up.
Left corner of the Sony Xperia Tipo is the power button, this button can be used to both open and power off. Right corner with 3.5 mm headphone jack.
Next to the power button and volume rocker buttons can also be used to zoom the camera.
The left side has a micro-USB jack, which is used primarily to charge the phone and connect to the computer. But it was a location is not ideal because if the charge and use will cause problems for users. It is better to arrange this port on the top edge or bottom. Another disadvantage of the machine is wired charger quite short.
The camera lens is located on the back of the phone. The front of speakerphones and also has three touch buttons below. It’s Back button to the left, the Home key in the middle and Menu key on the right.
Display
With the use of the operating system Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Sony Speria Tipo will become more attractive to users.
It allows you to drag and drop applications on top to create multiple folders, shaking aside to close an application or open the notification bar, view the widget before you position them … it’s a great interface to bring Android to come closer to the sophistication of iOS.
From the lock screen you can go to the main screen or the current screen, allowed to open or launch the camera application, you can drag down the notification screen and perform operations on any messages or calls What missed.
It’s a very handy addition and quickly access camera feature is always great, but unfortunately it can not access directly into applications such as contacts or messages.
Android 4.0 works well on Sony Xperia Tipo, rational layout and beautiful.
Scrolling between home screens and operating fairly smoothly on phones is generally smooth and responsive.
Android 4.0 is not the preferred software of some handsets. Mainly due to screen size shorten lead to the main screen becomes crowded, especially when added to the widget.
Right on the front page, the interface elements used sometimes overlap. Some interfaces also slow and jerky.
Although launched with Android 4.0, Sony Xperia Tipo is equipped with Home and Back hard keys, which are not necessary when Android 4.0 was built with the concept of a buttonless interface – no buttons. These buttons just ruin the aesthetics of the device and more importantly, it also makes the space more cramped screen.
Contact and call
Sony Xperia Tipo has its own icons for accessing your contacts list and numeric keypad, which allows access to the different screens.
By default, only a touch-tone keypad icon is displayed on the main screen, and can be found on the right side of the bottom bar. Of course, with the Android operating system, the icon can be moved and placed anywhere you want.
Sony Xperia Tipo do not have many ways to integrate social networking. You can sync contacts with Facebook, and all the major network meets with apps from Google Play, but it would be perfect if a contact address can be messaging from the home screen.
To add a new contact, Sony Xperia Tipo using an icon in the upper right corner of the Contacts screen, users can optionally add information for each contact: phone numbers, email addresses, contacts, related websites, notes, nicknames and more, everything you want can be stored. Tipo no function put contacts into groups and assign a custom ringtone.
Calling function and the speakerphone works fine. But in poor signal areas, the call will be interrupted.
Options from the screen calls pretty standard – you can access the dial keypad, turn on or off the speaker phone, mute and end the call. You can also completely hide the screen and search for items in the phone without cutting the call.
Internet
Sony Xperia Tipo is equipped with both 3G and Wi-Fi b / g / n, and both seem pretty fast. Wi-Fi mobile page load optimization for about 2-3 seconds, while even the full-page images, the machine also tends to load in 6-8 seconds. Browsing over 3G is clearly slower, but usually only takes a few seconds.
It also has all the basic features that you’d expect from a mobile browser, such as share pages, save pages for offline reading, auto fill forms and block pop-ups. .. Most of these options are available by pressing the menu button.
Screen Sony Xperia Tipo bookmarks display both images and name of the bookmarked page.
When adding a bookmark pages, they can be sorted into different folders, this is a great way to keep contact information in a scientific way when you have a lot of bookmarks page.
But pretty much the thumbnail page will not be read, and occasionally have been cut at the bottom of the page as if it does not fully load.
Also, when you want to enter text, the letters will become more difficult to read. So while the browser is usually pretty good handle on posting to forums but difficult to social networks.
Camera
Sony Xperia Tipo has a 3.2 MP camera on the back. It had no front-facing camera. Even the rear camera is also pretty basic. 3.2MP camera not too bad for a smartphone at the lowest level, but remember that there is no flash so it does not work well in low light conditions.
There are at least a few settings to capture the scene automatically at preset as poor lighting at night, playing sports, beach and snow, but you can manually adjust the exposure value, white balance and the metering light mode.
All of this can easily be changed with a menu that appears on the camera screen, you see the effects of any changes that occur. There is also an optional geo-tag (it writes the geographic coordinates of the image information) for your photos. Compared with the mid-range camera phone on the other, this is the standard you want.
On the standard setting, the picture is very dark environment for chaos and almost exclusively black and white appearance.
Battery life and connectivity features
Sony Xperia Tipo comes with 1500mAh battery, a capacity for a handset rather modest so. It’s better than the battery of Samsung Galaxy Y has a similar price and can be compared with the Huawei Ascend G300.
Sony estimates it can ensure 5 hours of talk time, 30 hours of music playback and 3 hours of video playback and 470 hours of standby time.
With the use of light (about 90 voice minutes, 45 minutes using a web browser, send a little text and Wi-Fi is turned on), the battery is still 17% after about 30 hours.
As for connectivity options, the Sony Xperia Tipo offers GPS, Wi-Fi b / g / n, HSDPA 7.2Mbps, 5.76Mbps HSUPA and Bluetooth connectivity.
All of these options to install and use is quite simple – in fact, the phone even comes with a widget to switch the mobile data package on / off.
If you learn skills in the settings menu, you can even turn the phone into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot.
The media content can be downloaded directly to your device from Google Play, the internet or any other applications. But if you want, you can connect the Sony Xperia Tipo with a computer using the included USB cable.
Conclude
Sony Xperia Tipo has many good points, from durable battery life to the ease of use and Smooth performance. But this is not the perfect phone – small screens, low resolution.