Review of Sony Xperia Sola

Sony Xperia Sola is a great phone which is a combination of features and style. Even though technically Sony Xperia Sola is not included in the NXT series it does share few design choices of the handsets of Xperia series 2012. Although it doesn’t run on Ice Cream Sandwich atleast for now, it is packed with great features to make up for it. The handset gives you features such as dual core processor, good quality unibody construction, Bravia engine display and a good camera.

Here is all that you should know about this handset. The following information will help you frame your opinion about this new addiction to the Sony family.

Body of Sony Xperia Sola

The dimensions of Sony Xperia Sola are 116x59x9.9 mm and its weight is 107 g. It has a soft finish and will fit in your hand easily and can be controlled single handedly. It is light weight as well as compact. The phone has a LED backlit LCD Capacitive Touchscreen of 3.7″ . The phone has scratch resistant glass to make sure it remains as good as new for a long period of time. This lightweight handset surely does look stylish.

Features of Sony Xperia Sola

The phone has a 3.7 inches 16 M color capacitive touchscreen and runs on Android OS v2.3.7 Gingerbread.  The camera is of 5 megapixel and comes with autofocus, LED flash as well as geo tagging and multi angle shot. The handset also offers you 8 GB of built in storage (5 GB is user accessible). Among other things, you will also get a stereo FM radio which comes with RDS, Voice dialing, deep Facebook integration and Adobe Flash 11 support. Sony Xperia Sola comes with Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA as well as GPS with A-GPS. The phone has all the features which you will want your smart phone to carry.

Performance of Sony Xperia Sola

The performance of this phone is pretty remarkable but the volume level is certainly a matter of concern.  It does not go beyond being average. The voices are clear during a call and there is no sign of crackling or digitizing. The secondary microphone which is present at the back of the handset helps in noise reduction and it does the job really well. While you speak, the noise in the background will be reduced to minimum level.

Coming to the battery, the non removable battery of the handset offers you below average backup. A number of mid ranged handsets available in the market are way better than Sony Xperia Sola when it comes to battery backup. Xperia Sola offers quite a decent performance if you do not take the low battery backup into consideration.

Sony Xperia Sola is certainly your key to unlimited entertainment. The 3.7 inches display with Mobile Bravia engine make movies fun. The dual core 1 GHz processing power of this handset offers you fast web browsing and makes the phone more responsive. You can click snaps quick and easy with the camera of Sony Xperia Sola and share them on social networking sites using DLNA®. You can also record precious moments and cherish them forever in form of HD videos.

Battery of Sony Xperia Sola

The handset sports a li-Ion 1320 mAh battery which offers a talk time of about six hours while the standby time is around 475 hours.  The battery backup isn’t the best thing about Sony Xperia Sola.

Price and Availability

The phone is easily available on Amazon at the price of $319.99, not a high price to pay for such an amazing handset.

My verdict

Among the good points we can count the cortex A9 Dual Core and fast processing of Mali 400, the good build of the phone and the decent camera . Sony Xperia Sola also has quite an impressive display. Coming to the minus points of the handset, as mentioned earlier, the battery backup is not all that great. Internal memory is low as well. One may also count the similar design across all the variants as a minus point as well.

Cutting the long story short, Sony Xperia Sola is a decent handset that is pocket friendly and offers you almost all features which a Smartphone has. The phone has a decent camera and the sound quality is pretty good. The battery might be a disappointment for some as it is rather below average. From looks and style to great features and performance, Sony Xperia Sola is a combination of all this and much more. In case you are looking for a decent mid range smart phone, this one can surely be taken into consideration.