Xperia tipo dual
Colors: Serene Black, Classic Silver
From the Manufacturer:
Smart has never been this simple
Made to get you started
Buy the phone. Open the box. Turn it on. Relax. Simply follow the guide to set up your accounts, such as Google and Facebook, and transfer contacts from your phone.
Made to make life easy
Enjoy the entertainment. Xperia tipo dual is so easy to use. The latest apps and music are just a click away from your home screen. Running on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), the Xperia tipo dual makes web browsing quicker and easier too.
Made for 2 SIM cards
Switch between SIM cards anytime with a simple press on the dedicated hardware key. Perfect for keeping your work and leisure time apart. Travelling abroad, keep in touch with your home contacts and reach out to the locals – 2 SIMs, one phone. Or make it happen automatically – set which SIM card to use at specific times of the day. You can also customize each SIM card separately with different ringtones and notifications.
Made to control your costs
Worried about data costs? Don’t be. With the Xperia tipo dual’s data usage app, you can set the limits you want to use data to surf, chat or game online. It lets you manage your costs, so you never spend more than you want to.
Made to keep in touch – for longer
Chat on the phone. Or have an all-night gossip using Xperia with Facebook. For longer. With the powerful battery you can charge your phone and then use it for around 24 hours without having to charge it again. Long battery life means you’ll never miss that important call – or funny status update again.
Made to match your moods
Xperia tipo dual is a smartphone. It gives you instant access to the web and online content, and a whole host of apps, like email, Google Maps™ and Google Search™. Make your Android smartphone your own with hundreds of thousands of apps to choose from. Put shortcuts on your homescreen for the apps you use the most.
We have what you want to hear
Millions and millions of songs on demand from Music Unlimited. Listen both online and offline with no annoying ads. Enjoy dozens of preset channels and easily sync with your own music collection. Get the most from your music with Music Unlimited.
Sony Entertainment Network’s Music Unlimited is a subscription service.
Key Features
- Google Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
- Dual SIM capability
- 3.2 inch scratch-resistant TFT touchscreen
- 3.2 MP camera
- 800 MHz processor
- xLOUD technology
- Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
Vital Statistics
The Xperia tipo dual weighs 3.5 ounces and measures 3.4 x 2.2 x 0.4 inches.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich Operating System
The Sony Xperia Tipo Dual runs the Android 4.0 operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing while improving on the best Android features: easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable home screens, resizable widgets, and more.
The new Ice Cream Sandwich interface features an onscreen navigation bar that replaces the hardware buttons for Back, Home, and Menu found with older Android-powered phones. And with Google+ integration, you can video chat with groups of up to 9 friends as well as easily upload and share photos and videos. Other features include:
Face UnlockYou can now unlock your phone with just your face using the Face Unlock option. It takes advantage of the front-facing camera and state-of-the-art facial recognition technology to register a face during setup and then to recognize it again when unlocking the device. Just hold your phone in front of your face to unlock (or use a backup PIN).
And the lock screen now lets you do more without unlocking. From the slide lock screen, you can jump directly to the camera for a picture or pull down the notifications window to check for messages. When listening to music, you can even manage music tracks and see album art.
Home Screen FoldersQuickly access related apps right from the home screen by organizing apps and shortcuts into folders--just drag one app onto another to create a folder.
MultitaskingMultitasking is even easier and more visual in Android 4.0. The Recent Apps button lets you jump instantly from one task to another using the list in the System Bar. The list pops up to show thumbnail images of apps used recently--tapping a thumbnail switches to the app.
Voice InputThe new voice engine in Android 4.0 lets you dictate the text you want, for as long as you want, using the language you want. You can speak continuously for a prolonged time, even pausing for intervals if needed, and dictate punctuation to create correct sentences. As the voice input engine enters text, it underlines possible dictation errors in gray. After dictating, you can tap the underlined words to quickly replace them from a list of suggestions.
Unlocked Phone
This phone is not locked to any specific carrier, and is sold as an unlocked smartphone. It can be used with a GSM network service provider. It does not come with a SIM card, and it requires that you provide a SIM card from your selected service provider.
This phone is compatible with cellular networks that support GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS/HSPA Bands 1/2/5/8. In areas not served by a 3G data network, you'll continue to receive 2G data service (depending on network compatibility).
Note that the downloading of maps, games, music and videos and uploading of images and videos involves transferring large amounts of data. Your service provider may charge for the data transmission, and the availability of particular services and features may vary by carrier.
This phone comes with a standard 1-yr manufacturer's warranty for the U.S. included with original purchase.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
Great phone that easily fits in my shirt pocket!
By M. Tezel
Why is there a lack of high end small smartphones? This phone has Ice Cream Sandwich Android, but only a 3 meg outward camera with no light. I really wish it had a compass and a slightly larger battery but I still love it anyway. I would consider it a middle-of-the-road between low end and high end. You'd be hard-pressed to find an equivalent size smartphone with the screen specs of this one and not everybody carries a purse for their giant pads. Some of us are men with tiny pockets! Tipo fits the bill and I got the dual sim version to boot (other countries always get the really cool smartphones from the same manufacturers). I am still winding down calls from my old prepaid TMobile-To-Go sim (full size sim) while giving people my new number on AT&T (full size sim). It is neat to see which carrier has a better signal and some comfort in knowing I have access to two separate networks.It has passive dual sims. This means you manually select which sim you want to call out on. You can setup phone settings to only use network data on one sim or alternate sims or split between times of the day. The sim switch is right below the volume so I accidentally hit it at least once per day, then purposely hit it again to switch back to my main sim. The phone will receive calls on either sim at any time unless you are already on a phone call, in which case, it disables the other sim during that call.How's it run? I've had the phone almost a month and now run Apex Launcher and MagicLocker (very popular android apps) without any major issues. Only the home key has stopped responding as defined by Apex but that seems to be common with that launcher on other manufacturer phones too. I setup a gesture to open the same app as I defined for the home key, so no worries there (home key is not permanently broken). The proximity sensor works for on/off, it isn't high end enough to determine a more accurate distance. I usually end around 30% battery left at the end of the day using live wallpaper and an app that turns off wifi/data when the screen is off so it only updates when I'm actually using the phone. I don't talk much on it but have been trying different apps so I equate the cpu-battery usage about the same. For the given specs, this phone gets a 5 star rating for being a good mid-range smartphone.I would not hesitate to buy another phone off the web again from a good manufacturer. No place in town (one of the top 10 in the USA) do not even hardly carry Sony phones at all, maybe one store has one model, and it is not this model. And to manufacturers....there is a HUGE niche market in the USA for SMALL high-end smartphones!
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
A good compromise
By Pawel Danielewicz
Pros:- small, about the size of a dumb phone- light - might be lighter than a dumb phone- battery life nearly as good as for a dumb phone- two SIMs that can be separately set for voice/data services- truly unlocked - works with foreign SIMs- OK GPS- Android 4.0.4- native email client that works fine w/MS Exchange 2010- OK sound- OK FM radio- decent Bluetooth- working tethering, both through USB and WiFi- rooting w/o a glitchCons:- cramped keyboard in portrait- little of screen left above keyboard in the landscape- no compass- no front-facing camera- no focus or optical zoom- tight memory- WiFi on the flaky side- sensitive to humidityIf you waited for a smartphone until one became available where you would gain in functionality, beyond a dumb phone, without sacrificing in the phone's size and weight and not much in the battery life, this is the one for you. It is about the size of my old dumb phone, a tad lighter and it retains 50-60% of battery life after 24h, even after stuffing it with plenty of apps.The system allows for cut-and-paste, concurrent apps and for voice recognition. The phone's GPS locator is in practice just a bit inferior than my separate state-of-the-art Bluetooth GPS unit. The Bluetooth connection to that unit works pretty flawlessly, much better than for my netbook. I have been successful using voice for communicating street destination. Sound quality is reasonable. Benefitting from the light weight, I commonly carry the phone around the house in my shirt pocket, or hanging from a lanyard, and working as an internet radio. The WiFi connectivity is inferior relative to my netbook - when the WiFi signal deteriorates, the phone struggles keeping up. At high humidity, such as after a rain, the screen can react capriciously to touch. Wind can also be a factor.The dual SIM aspect works. I was warned that some phones sold as unlocked are only `US unlocked' and quickly tried a foreign SIM as a second card. I was able to establish and use the service on that card.The memory on the phone is tight, but is alleviated by the relatively recent version of Android. Still, you obviously need to get right away an external memory card, preferably at the 32GB maximum. Not all memory is equal on the phone, but there is no point in occupying higher-level memory with stuff that can put into the lower level. The Tipo comes with its internal space divided into the phone memory and sdcard. The external memory card slides somewhat inconveniently under the battery and is identified by the system as ext_card. Getting the external card back out is cumbersome and is best done employing the end of a paper clip as a tool. Rooting of the phone, yielding extra flexibility with the memory, went without a glitch. Auto Memory Manager app allows to choose a more aggressive policy, than that the system's, of relieving system memory of the apps, producing a better compromise between the number of apps on the phone and the speed. Installation of a couple of more apps, DirectoryBind and Link2SD, both cumbersome to set up, allows to migrate to the external card, respectively, app data from the sdcard and apps themselves from the phone memory. As a payback, the last effort in practice lifts any limit on the number of apps installed on the phone, without sacrificing speed.After you connect the phone to a PC, using a USB cable, the phone asks about installing software on the PC. That software allows to synchronize contacts and transfer files. For file transfer, the file manager apps exploiting WiFi are more convenient. Tethering off the phone works fine for the data speeds characteristic for my location, both through USB and WiFi.The cramped keyboard makes it tight to type. Entering of passwords is particularly nightmarish. To progress, you need to install the Swiftkey Keyboard. The stylus rings txtRng:) speed up typing better than a simple stylus pen. The keyboard in combination with the Android system does not make this phone much of a production device. However, I managed fine to read PDF books in the landscape orientation. For refinements regarding screen orientation, get an app named Set Orientation.The native email client is basic, but by relying on native server synchronization service it could communicate fine with the Microsoft Exchange system of my workplace. The native calendar app also exploits that service and can synchronize fine with either MS Exchange or Google Calendar. The phone comes with 5 homescreens that fill up quickly. Unfortunately third-party launchers are unable to use most of the native widgets and some functionality gets lost w/o any substitution, such as an on-screen switch for Bluetooth. Fortunately, Folder Organizer saved the day, sparing the need for a new launcher.As a headset, I recommend the Sony's Smart Headset. The smart controls pathetically do not work, at least with Xperia Tipo, but the sound is good. MH750 headset is also a possibility, but its sound is on the mediocre side. With a headset or headphones plugged in, the phone can function as an FM radio, with an average sensitivity. Connecting an externally powered speaker, with virtually no connecting cable, surprising provides sufficient antenna function. The camera on the phone cannot focus, in particular on smaller bar codes, so getting an add-on lens, such as macro/wide-angle is practically a must. There is no secondary camera facing to the front, undermining Skype video calls.Overall, this phone is a good compromise between size, weight and functionality. We now have two of those phones in our household.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Good mobile
By sreedhar
Yesterday(Dec 4th) i received this mobile.First thing i faced the problem is SIM2 port was giving an error while dialing. (Connection error, invalid MMI code).I contacted the seller (TechUstore).Seller said contact Sony customer center.Today morning i contaced sony customer care, they provided the solution saying that Reset the mobile. Now its working fine. But first day i felt very bad.Second thing i noticed about touch screen, some times i am feeling that need to tap multiple times to open something.Remaining things are good up to now. I hope it will work.Finally the Brand name i am trusting and Customer care support is good.After one or two months i will comment more on this mobile.
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Great Phone, Stupidly High Price
For Fun Only!
