Xperia S - impressions so far

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- I love the Swype builtin to the keyboard. A nice surprise, but I still prefer the long-press options of Better Keyboard Pro.

- The screen is gorgeous. And I love the neutral whitebalance compared to the Samsung AMOLED screens with their odd turqoise tint.

- Battery life is good once I uninstalled FourSquare (which I don't use anyway)

- Reception is excellent, call quality is excellent. Better than the Arc.

- games fly.

- The SE overlay is simple, clean but prrreeeettty.


Main cons:
- Sony, why oh why can you not place the speaker at the bottom of the phone like the iPhone? Is there some patent thing going on?? Or maybe on the sides like the old SE walkman phone?? I know that having the speakers at the bottom is lousy if you are holding the phone widescreen, but at least it never gets blocked when you have the phone in your pants pocket!!!

Can you shed any light so to speak on the auto-brightness feature? There seems to be conflicting reports as to whether the screen becomes brighter outside while dimming in a darkened room. The specs indicate that there is a light sensor, but some reported that it doesn't work or that it is barely noticeable. What are you thoughts?

Originally Posted by floepie

Can you shed any light so to speak on the auto-brightness feature? There seems to be conflicting reports as to whether the screen becomes brighter outside while dimming in a darkened room. The specs indicate that there is a light sensor, but some reported that it doesn't work or that it is barely noticeable. What are you thoughts?

Yes, it does work, and noticeably so. However, the transition is slow so as not to cause the fast bright/dim/bright shifting. It takes about 5 seconds to slowly shift from bright to dark, etc.

By default, the brightness is a fixed 50% in the settings. However, this can be switched to the auto brightness using the backlight toggle widget.

Wow. That's a relief to hear. What happens to the slider when the auto-brightness in the widget is enabled? Does the slider then gray out? If you attempt to move the slider, does the auto-brightness on the widget disable itself then?

Somewhere I read that the slider works like iOS devices do in that when you move the slider, you are raising or lowering the *average* brightness and not setting a specific, static brightness as you do on other Android devices. Thanks...

Originally Posted by floepie

Wow. That's a relief to hear. What happens to the slider when the auto-brightness in the widget is enabled? Does the slider then gray out? If you attempt to move the slider, does the auto-brightness on the widget disable itself then?

Somewhere I read that the slider works like iOS devices do in that when you move the slider, you are raising or lowering the *average* brightness and not setting a specific, static brightness as you do on other Android devices. Thanks...

You can move the slider, and it does indeed seem to specify the "average" brightness.

Originally Posted by Rashkae

- I love the Swype builtin to the keyboard. A nice surprise, but I still prefer the long-press options of Better Keyboard Pro.

- The screen is gorgeous. And I love the neutral whitebalance compared to the Samsung AMOLED screens with their odd turqoise tint.

- Battery life is good once I uninstalled FourSquare (which I don't use anyway)

- Reception is excellent, call quality is excellent. Better than the Arc.

- games fly.

- The SE overlay is simple, clean but prrreeeettty.


Main cons:
- Sony, why oh why can you not place the speaker at the bottom of the phone like the iPhone? Is there some patent thing going on?? Or maybe on the sides like the old SE walkman phone?? I know that having the speakers at the bottom is lousy if you are holding the phone widescreen, but at least it never gets blocked when you have the phone in your pants pocket!!!

Thank you appreciated should receive mine tomorrow :)

Originally Posted by Rashkae

- I love the Swype builtin to the keyboard. A nice surprise, but I still prefer the long-press options of Better Keyboard Pro.

- The screen is gorgeous. And I love the neutral whitebalance compared to the Samsung AMOLED screens with their odd turqoise tint.

- Battery life is good once I uninstalled FourSquare (which I don't use anyway)

- Reception is excellent, call quality is excellent. Better than the Arc.

- games fly.

- The SE overlay is simple, clean but prrreeeettty.


Main cons:
- Sony, why oh why can you not place the speaker at the bottom of the phone like the iPhone? Is there some patent thing going on?? Or maybe on the sides like the old SE walkman phone?? I know that having the speakers at the bottom is lousy if you are holding the phone widescreen, but at least it never gets blocked when you have the phone in your pants pocket!!!

Thanks for your review. I agree about the speaker, it's stupid on the back and I usually hate that many manufacturers place it there, but the only other devices I've seen with speaker not on the back is Blackberrys and LG Optimus 2X (not sure if others LGs too).

The soon to be released Xperia P has the speaker on the right side and that's one of the features (along with Aluminum unibody) that makes me doubt if getting the Xperia S or the Xperia P (or simply wait for other options...)

Its auto brightness on all the time? I dont see a on off here

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Originally Posted by ajftl

Its auto brightness on all the time? I dont see a on off here
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See the 3rd post here.

what about video playback when video size>1GB..

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what about lags which we have in ARC....phoneapp, messaging app