Robust, stylish, handy - makes a cell phone fun

The Xperia Active is my first Android phone. Before that, I had two relatively similar Sony Ericsson (K750i and C510) were both light, small and fairly robust. For me, a cell phone is a commodity which must hold only a limited time and to which I will not have to worry if it's raining or I throw the phone in your pocket / backpack.

With the Xperia Active I now have a smartphone that meets these requirements. I can be mounted outside the mobile phone in the snow and rain in the backpack, let mitloggen GPS for hiking and cycling, and even with wet fingers in the rain take snapshots I, because it is a smart phone can directly be transferred to the website of my choice. If I actually get lost is the Xperia Active is not too small or too slow and can help out with Google Maps and a compass. The very very practical eyelet can I use to guarantee the bombproof attach dangling backpack, a very important feature phone. The bright LED helps night. When cycling I can use the supplied Sportarmband if I otherwise have no pockets on the wheel / body. So much for my benefit so a rugged smartphone.

While working the cell phone is only rum, and activated standby with GPRS (and GPS / Wi-Fi disabled) and to sync (Google+, Twitter, GMail) keeps it loose 48h, if not longer. Discussions come clean and reliable over, operation is used as with Android, the camera absolutely OK. As someone with a lot of DSLR photographed I appreciate it that you can white balance, metering mode and focus independed of each other in a number of programs set. Especially the fixed infinite-focus means that I can make perfectly focused photos with zero delay in 90% of situations. The noise performance at ISO 1600 is of course no longer beautiful, but the Xperia likes to go in good weather down to ISO 64 and shutter speeds of up to 1 / 1250s. Focal length is fixed at 3.5mm and aperture at F2.6.

Negative points:
Actually, I can only the software from SE criticize something. Unfortunately, a practical migration app like HTC is missing, you have to therefore contact sync via Bluetooth and the old SMS I ultimately deleted. The HTC Sense UI like it a little better. If in your Xperia Active wrist strap is missing simply calls on the SE support, has probably forgotten accidentally at just a few of the first mobile phones. Otherwise you should slide a microUSB still order the cable, I had none other than the supplied, a slightly bigger memory card can not hurt either.

Update:
The included UI on Android can easily replace (eg with Go Launcher EX), so that's not really a negative point. The same applies to built-in apps such as SMS, contacts, keypad and phone calls, everything is also free from the "Go Dev Team" available. In the meantime, I've also used the radio and various online radio stations via GPRS / UMTS. The Radio UI is nice easy to use, the sound and receiving super, and also with online radio via WLAN or GPRS I had continuous connection and reasonable battery life.