The case:
In spite of, even with Samsung S3 and S4 often considered "cheap" acting criticized plastic lid, the Sony Xperia SP acts truly luxurious. The back cover acts individually, although considered actually something simple, fragile and delicate, but it fits perfectly, so that the phone not only looks as if it were not open, but it also feels like that.
The aluminum frame is doing another, to emphasize the good and noble impression of the phone.
There is a transparent entering an harboring the notification light on the underside of the housing. This light can also be used for a kind of light show, for example, when listening to music. Such gimmicks interested me less, so the more important points.
The case is almost 1 cm thick well 2mm thicker than the Xperia Z. This is probably due to the fact that the SP has, despite the smaller size, also has a 2,300 mAh battery big-hours.
The case looks so stable that the SP entirely trusted to survive a few falls from a great height to not harmless.
A novelty for me was the fact that although the rear lid can -as said- decrease, the battery is nevertheless permanently installed.
It takes him almost just starting to insert mircoSD- or SIM card. Whether and how the users would be the battery will be able to change, I could not fathom even after thorough visual inspection. Strangely, it is in any case, but now mobile phones are common with non replaceable battery such that I can not do negative values.
Display:
4.6 inches with a resolution of 1280x720 yield a pixel density of 319 per inch Piel. If once again the comparison is permitted for Xperia Z, which comes with 443 ppi, it has to be said very clearly that it is clearly in a direct comparison with certain videos or applications that the Xperia Z with Full HD release comes ,
In direct comparison! , Considered the representation from the SP screen is crystal clear, intense color, natural and not artificial. The fact that blacks represented only as a dark gray, as I have it somewhere in a test on the SP must read, I can not understand. We have specially gewählt- a video file with a very gloomy view that blacks were here to recognize them as such.
In the brand new game from the Android Market "Can Knockdown 3", ie the Dosenwerfspiel which should be familiar to most Android users, was, again in direct comparison, the better contrast of the Xperia Z clear: in the last currently available Level in which the doses that need to throw, located in a mine, which is illuminated only very sparse, the presentation of the Xperia Z is significantly better. On good German: one recognizes more. But here it must be said that the Xperia SP makes a good figure. A Razr from Motorola i could just represent the scene in the game a lot worse.
Processor / power
QuadCore 1.5 GHz when Xperia Z or Snapdragon S4 with 1.7 GHz and two cores. 2GB of memory here, 1GB of memory while Xperia SP.
How it affects in practice? Not, at least can not perform at the little tests that I have in such a short time.
The Sony Xperia SP has no Microruckler, or even allowed crashes. From impression ago -the experts here may verbessern- me in the comments one is as "normal user" or casual gamers with the Xperia SP better served because just not all applications, lack of support, which can exploit "power of four cores."
My subjective impressions confirm the benchmarks that we carried out with two phones. The Sony Xperia SP reached the "Quadrant" - Benchmark just over 7500 points at "Antutu" well 15300th The Xperia Z reached 8200 and just over 18,000 points while "Antutu" test.
Impressive values, which as I said to reflect, even in the subjective sensation when using the SP.
One can find the benchmarks that the lower memory hardly affects, but certainly makes the timing of higher equipped with quad-core competition life difficult against the background of values.
The performance of the Xperia SP surfing is just as impressive. The loading time of websites is virtually identical to that of the Xperia Z. I have the SP can compete i9250 "for fun" against the "old" Galaxy Nexus, which at that time, in early 2012 it became known as a particularly fast Internet smartphone. No chance against the Xperia SP. It affords no breaks of the load beam, at least not those that suggest that the processor / memory is required to process the data flow initially. From an LTE mobile but should this can also be expected.
Telephony / Audio
The first bit of a disappointment, but in an important chapter the Xperia SP affords in telephony. The speaker transmits the other party's voice from my feeling and the owner is not in good quality. It sounds tinny! The same is true for playing music without earphones. The latter I regard not negative, mainly because Sony Xperia SP, as well as the Xperia Z with aforementioned playback instruments, such as earphones, as well as via Bluetooth in the car spread great sound,
Well done, but it is and remains a phone, which is to allow perfect telephony primarily. Everything else is "freestyle", but shortcomings on the "duty" as just the poor sound quality during a call, preventing the maximum rating, especially since "photography" Another slight drawback was still found in the chapter.
Although I assume that the problem with the tinny sounding handset is not a general problem, but I can only judge the device that I had available for testing.
Photo / Video
Unfortunately I could only insofar test the video feature, as I shot a short clip. This made a good impression during playback on the phone display.
Photography is for the average user, including I count myself, probably more interesting.
Here it was noted that the mobile focused partially incorrect or out of focus put on fast consecutive shots, with the same settings, so without much change in the position of the mobile phone to be photographed objects. However, I had the impression that this is only in the evenings happened when the lighting conditions were poor.
The shooting in days arrive perfectly. The recordings via LED flash get good to very good.
Conclusion:
First and foremost, not optimal sound when making calls and also the problems with the autofocus when shooting prevent the full score of the Sony Xperia SP.
But is offset by a very noble, valent phone with impressive performance by a lightning fast processor.
One would take the 8GB memory may be able to jump twice, but by the Ausrüstmöglichkeit the memory up to 32 GB puts this small Wermuth drop far into the background.
I suspect that the problem with the autofocus either a single case was, or will be eliminated quickly through a software update.
Despite the problem with the phone, I can say, this phone is a lot of joy. It runs like clockwork and is the mobile phones with 4 cores amazingly hot on their heels despite dual-core processor.
The mobile phone is the 2300 mAh big battery well under way. While it is always difficult to make a clear statement on the subject, especially if you had only a small window of time for testing and each uses his mobile phone differently. However, you can hold quite that the battery compared to all mobile phones that I tested lately, is counting on the upper third.
Persistent than the Xperia Z the battery in Xperia SP is especially true when the display is active. Here the larger 0.4-inch display of the Xperia Z and the higher pixel density are taking their toll.
4 stars and a buy recommendation, subject to the usage pattern of the prospective buyers.
