Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #7344 in Cell Phone Accessories
- Color: Black/White
- Brand: Sony
- Model: ST25A-BW
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.10" h x
.50" w x
4.40" l,
.30 pounds
Features
- Networks: UMTS HSPA 850 (Band V), 1900 (Band II), 2100 (Band I); GSM GPRS/EDGE 850, 900, 1800, 1900
- Google Android 2.3 (Gingerbread); 1 GHz STE U8500 Dual Core; Internal storage: 4 GB/RAM 512 MB
- Display: 3.5-Inch Capacitive touch screen, scratch-resistant, anti-reflection coating on mineral glass
- Camera: 5 megapixel with HD 720p video recording
- Black end cap can be replaced with the extra white end cap included in the box.
Sony Xperia U ST25A-BW Unlocked Phone with Android 2.3 OS and 3.5-Inch Touchscreen--U.S. Warranty (Black/ White)
Product Description
Sony Xperia U-Powerful and personal smartphone. Get yourself a front row seat. Enjoy the sights and sounds of your favorite films and music bombarding your senses. On Xperia U's razor sharp Reality Display, and in 3D surround sound. Snap photos fast, film videos in super-sharp HD, and share them with your friends in a flash. Enjoy it all with super quick performance powered by a dual core processor. Let the true you shine through with super snazzy colored bottom caps and a transparent band that changes color to suit your themes, photos and album art.
Customer Reviews
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120 of 122 people found the following review helpful.
By Henry
Sony Xperia UGeneral:The Sony Xperia U is an entry level Android device at a very reasonable price point of $219 (Although I find the price constantly fluctuating on Amazon). Keep in mind, if it's not already clear to you now, that this is a very small/thin phone. Using the iPhone as a reference, the Xperia U 3.5 in display is NOT like the iPhone's 3.5 in. Xperia U's display is taller but thinner (considerably so, which you'll notice when the keyboard comes up and how tiny certain icons such as battery, service bar, and general font), which still satisfies the 3.5 in, but keep that in mind when purchasing (I personally like small phones, not into the whole mini-tv in my pocket kinda thing). The phones I've owned in the past couple years are the Droid Pro Plus, Mytouch 4g, Blackberry Curve, Mytouch 3g slide, and the original iPhone. This is to help give the reader a sense of where I'm coming from and what I'm comparing to. I really enjoyed the Droid Pro Plus, which was my last phone before this phone, but I sustained a little bit of water damage on a hiking trip so I figured I'd try something new. I'm pretty picky, so the things that bother me might not bother you, but here goes:Pros:1. Fast a. The phone is very responsive with the Dual-core 1 GHz processor b. Very little lag overall. Using Angry Birds as the reference, cuz everyone's played Angry Birds, there's slight choppiness with the background enabled in the game but it's perfectly smooth with it disengaged. It's never really stalled even with background enabled, only the FPS has dipped a bit and it's a bit noticeable, but other than that no issues. c. Browsing with the phone is also a nice experience (in regards to speed). I've browsed through CNET, Gizmodo, and Slickdeals, which all have a lot of stuff on their pages. The pages load pretty quickly (on wi-fi - I've noticed most of the time the bottle neck is the phone not the connection, so even on wifi I've had phones that took a while to load pages) and when scrolling, there's a slight millisecond lag with every scroll, but it's consistent and smooth enough for me.2. Crisp Display a. The clarity of the screen is very nice with 480 x 854 pixels, 3.5 inches (~280 ppi pixel density) b. You really can't see any pixels with the naked eye3. Dedicated Camera Button a. Makes it much easier to take pictures, there's a light press, which autofocuses, and a strong press, which actually takes the picture. b. The key also allows you to take a picture outside of the lock screen in case you need to take a quick snapshot at something and don't feel like unlocking your device, finding the camera app and then taking the picture. Nice little touch c. In my opinion, the 5MP camera is good enough for the phone. It's certainly not the best camera out there, but it's far from the worst. It's just average. A little noise here and there.4. Swype a. This is really the first time I've really used Swype. I don't know what changed, but before I didn't like using it, now with this device I love it. I don't have particularly large or small hands, but this phone feels better with one hand than using it with 2 hands, just imo. So Swype really saved it for me, but you have to download it.5. Front Facing Camera a. Honestly, I haven't used it yet, but it's a nifty feature that I haven't really had on other phones so it's a plus for me. Skype and taking pictures of myself I guess.6. Phone/Voice Quality a. Now this phone doesn't really beat the Droid Pro Plus or Blackberry Curve in loudness and clarity of voice, but it's by no means "bad." It's just something to keep in mind and not get lost in all the features, forgetting the fact that the device is (or should be) primarily a phone. The sound levels peak a bit when at its max especially when using the xLOUD function which enhances the loudness of speaker. But nothing really new or surprising to me since most of the phones I've owned had similar issues.7. App Stacking a. Move an app over another and it stacks into a folder. Nifty8. Screen Protector a. Comes with it in the box, that's nice.Cons:1. Texting a. Now let the reader understand, my critique is not the texting experience overall, but this is where my pickiness really shines. When adding a new contact to text, you have to click the Write New button (indicated by a pencil and + Sign) then you have to hit Add Contact (Plus sign with a portrait) then you have to type in the Name which will eventually auto-populate, not in the bar but in the scrolling section below. Then you have to click the name itself then press done. My goodness, my other phone, all I had to do was press Write new, Type the name and it would usually auto-populate in the bar itself, in which case I can hit enter and I'd be done with it. So rather than 3 motions, it takes about 5 motions to text a new buddy. My hope is that I don't have to text new people often, luckily once you have a thread going, it's easier to get to in the inbox.2. Service Bar Indicator a. I've never really experienced this problem before, but the service bar indicator is often inaccurate. Sometimes I'm in a place where I KNOW there's no service, but there are 2 bars. I go ahead and test text and lo and behold, no service. Tricky. That gets on my nerves a bit.3. Light Bar a. There is no built-in way to turn the light bar off. It's cool...for the first 5 minutes, but there's no way to adjust brightness of it or turn it off in the system. Luckily, the way to remedy that is to get an app called "Screen Filter." You click-off the Enable soft-key backlight in the App settings and it goes off. But the app will constantly stay in your notifications bar. I'm a bit OCD so I love clearing the notification bar, but unfortunately that little Screen Filter notification will always be there unless I want the light bar on.4. Battery Life a. As some have indicated, Battery Life isn't the best, with a Li-Ion of 1320 mAh. What I do to preserve the battery is turn off the live wall paper, dim my lights, turn off the light bar and limit the number of widgets. It lasts me about a day and a half, but really, I just charge it at night... why have your battery run out the middle of the next day, right?5. LED Notification Indicator a. The LED light is WEAK. So weak in fact, that the blue indicator cannot be seen in daylight unless your face is 5 cm away from it. It's quite useless. Luckily, there's another app fix (sort of). Light Flow Lite allows you do change the color of the LED light for notifications. Customizable between e-mail, calendar, SMS, MMS, etc., so if you happen to get the phone, do yourself a favor and change your notification lights to RED as I noticed it's the strongest light that pierces through the screen. (Still dim though. Let's put it this way, if you're across the room and you have 20/20 vision and there's a remote light source in the room, trust me, you can't see it)6. Vibration a. Vibration is WEAK as well. Maybe I'm spoiled and the Droid Pro Plus and Blackberry Curve has always had strong vibrations that I could feel in my pocket, but this... doesn't really cut it for me. I've always relied on the sound of the vibration itself rather than any sort of chime, but this phone. I gotta have the sound on or I don't notice my texts. Not a huge deal breaker for me, but it still kinda bothers me.7. Camera a. I know I had this primarily as a pro, but there was this one little thing that sorta bugged me. When going into camera mode outside of the lock-screen, you hold it down a few seconds and let go. The thing is, it takes a picture immediately as you let go rather than going into camera mode, allowing you to actually preview what it is you're taking a picture of. If you have a good sense of what's in front of you and what will be on the screen, good on you, but everytime I've engaged the camera, I've always had the first accidental fire of my legs or random wall fixture followed by taking the real picture. Just something to keep in mind.8. SD Card a. There is none, so you deal with the space given. b. Not a deal breaker for me because I don't generally keep my music on the phone. And I can always take pictures off the phone after I've uploaded it to my computer. So even though I don't really mind, the lack of it today definitely makes it a con.So there are my little tid-bits about the phone. Overall the phone is a great phone for the price, the cons don't really outweigh the pros for me. If I could, i'd give a 3.75 rating, but, just rounded up cuz it def. doesn't deserve a 3 star rating. I've yet to try a phone that really fit everything that I wanted, and this phone has many pluses... and with the other stuff, ah I'll get used it. Oh and if you're triyng to figure out why MMS doesn't work, Click Settings > Xperia > Internet Settings and it'll d/l whatever it downloads to active it. Android 2.3 is nice and all, but I will be expecting ICS to come out for it soon. Sony's working on it, so stay tunedThanks!
49 of 52 people found the following review helpful.
By Cec
What a great phone, I was looking for something new, modern, fun, elegant, and sophistic.This is the phone, its actually and medium end device by the new generation of Sony smartphones, but this is one is what great for anyone looking for something catchy, durable and well made. Sony created a phone no so expensive like the others brothers from same family, this one has what you need on any smartphone, It will keep updated and you will be able to do all you need on today world.1- Is fast and works smooth on any application2- Ready to be updated to new android is fantastic, no bugs no problems at all.3- Has an interesting durable, fancy and resistant material on case, looks good, feels good.4- The screen has everything you need, bright, deep contrast, great sutured colors, HD. Not really great for finger prints marks but is very resistant for scratch... If you buy some screen protector you dont have to worry for dust or finger prints.5- Yeap I know just 8 gb internal memory, but thats enough for apps music, HD Photos and more, not a bad thing.6- The camera works great and does the job not really fancy but what you need for you phone at any good moment.7- Very sensitive at touch works fast.8- Very personalized, the light on the bottom and the changeable cap is very cool.UPDATE ( August 22, 20 days of use)The phone is amazing, after all this time, I have no complains about it. No bugs, No problems.I want to add something about the battery, this phone has a battery Standard battery, Li-Ion of 1320 mAh (not a big issue), don't know why they didn't put something better, but is ok, if you install some apps like: Defender Juice and specially Easy Battery Saver, any android phone will last longer, like twice the time. This one last about One day or two days; I use Skype, whats-app, badoo, news apps, weather widgets and more, so all together are battery drainers.Still happy!I recommend it for today's price and quality, and of course functionality.Final update September 19! No complains works amazing!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
By Hugo Hormazabal
Awesome phone, great speakers and it has the Xperia Sola quick text typing (just move the finger through the words and the phone deciphers what word you want to spell) is a real attention grabber. Although you have to charge the phone every night because the battery runs off quickly.
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