Beautiful, but be wary of the reception!
I love my phone to pieces. It is looks beautiful, and is a solid phone. I've dropped it my fair share of times and you can't even tell. It runs windows mobile 6.1 so you can install many different types of applications. Unless you would rather have windows mobile 6.5, you would need the X2. Trust me, you will want these extra programs since the default windows programs are quite dull such as solitaire and this balloon popping game. The alarm system could also be upgraded since you can only set up 3 alarms. I ended up downloading a free alarm to substitute. There is also a recording option, but it can only record up to 2 minutes, which is pretty useless as well since I needed a recorder to record my lectures in class. The touchscreen option uses a really sensitive capacitor, which is much more responsive than other phones such as the iPhone and T-mobile myTouch (for some reason I can't get those to recognize my touch). If you like typing on the screen though, this may not be the best phone for that since the keyboard is tiny, and rotating the screen will require to you install a Panel from SPB (This phone does not have an accelerometer that recognizes which direction the phone is in). There is also a stylus to help if that makes it better. It will make your Xperia experience much better! This panel allows you to rotate the screen and type. Otherwise, you can just slide out the keyboard. I believe this phone has one of the nicer designs for the keyboard, and the buttons are well spaced so it is good for those with fat fingers. The keyboard doesn't offer more functions like other phones, such as direction arrows, but to me, those seem unnecessary. My main complaints for this beautiful phone, though, is the reception problem. It is perfectly fine in areas with a lot of signal (this phone uses a sim card so isn't for those with verizon or sprint), but if the reception isn't too great, you are for sure going to get dropped calls. The antenna on this phone is terribly placed, right on the bottom of the phone. So if you are to talk on your phone cupping the bottom of it, I believe your hand creates some sort of static field that disrupts the antenna and reception. Also, since the phone is metal, the metal backing of the phone also blocks some of the reception capacity as well, so you are sure to have one less bar than you normally would, which is quite disappointing. Also, one tiny complaint is that there are no developers for the Xperia Panels! I thought there would be more, but it seems like everyone would rather develop applications for the iphone or tmobile google phones and the xperia is just abandoned with nothing. There hasn't been a new application available in quite some time and there wasn't many to begin with. Oh yeah, although you could make your own ringtones nowadays, I really like the default Xperia ringtone. It is so cute! Nice phone, but very pricey. I do like my Sony products though! Battery Life Drains easily if using wifi. Drains for no reason sometimes. If you power off your phone and turn it back on, you'll find that you just lost 50-80% of your battery. Call Quality Easy to lose reception in a location with one or two bars due to the way you hold your phone. I have to set the phone on the table and use the headset or speaker in order to avoid dropped calls. Ease of Use Easy to use if you are better with technology. None of my friends and family can figure out how to use this phone. Durability It is a trooper in that my phone has dropped on many occasions. I do have several cracks on the edges of the phone. The keyboard no longer functions (which is a reported problem with just about everyone who owns this phone).
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Temple City, CA