Sony's latest flagship, the Xperia TL, is a nice footfall up from its latest chance in mediocrity, the Xperia Ion. But just because it's 007's buzz in Skyfall, that doesn't beggarly it should be yours. I mean, that guy is affectionate of a apart canon.
What Is It?
A 4.6-inch smartphone that runs Android 4.0 with a advantageous atom of Sony derma on top.
Who's It For?
People who amount appearance over function, shutterbugs.
Design
It's abundantly sleek. The buzz feels attenuated if captivated argument to analogously sized phones. The metal aback has a pronounced, biconcave ambit to it, which makes it feel different and quasi-futuristic. It has a concrete camera button like all phones should, NFC, and it can advance video to your TV via an HDMI adaptor.
Using It
Sony's UI looks anachronous and bulky next to banal Android, HTC Sense, and Samsung's TouchWiz. Achievement is sporadic; it'll zip one minute and lag the next with no ablaze cause. The awning pumps out a lot of lumens and is arresting even in ablaze sunlight. The accouterments camera button opens the camera app directly, even if the awning is off.
The Best Part
The look. There are no appropriate angles on this phone; there are cascades of sci-fi angles. It's what ET would buzz home with in 2012. It helps that the body superior feels solid, too.
Tragic Flaw
Once again, Sony has managed to muck-up a abundant section of accouterments with applesauce software. Not alone does the TL's derma attending and feel cheap, but it aswell causes all kinds of achievement problems. There's jutter and lag throughout, and a apparent choppiness in animations. There are aberrant bugs and crashes. You'll be accounting agilely one minute, again hit above keys the next, all aural the aforementioned text. It's a fiasco.
This Is Weird…
The one architecture blemish is that the concrete buttons for power, volume, and camera are all airtight too deeply on the lower appropriate ancillary of the phone. I apparently hit the amiss button 40 percent of the time.
Test Notes
The camera is excellent. It's performs able-bodied in low ablaze and is about actual sharp. It does accept a addiction to ablution out, but all-embracing the 13MP ballista is one of the best you can get on a phone. [Check out some samples.]
The awning is terrific, too. It's actual ablaze and actual sharp; it can about accumulate up with the HTC One X, ascendant awning king.
Because it's James Bond's buzz it comes pre-installed with some Bond ringtones and wallpapers. I pretend not to care, but I am lying to myself.
Expandable accumulator via micro SD card. Actual nice, although added accepted on high-end Android handsets.
Sometimes hitting the concrete camera button works perfectly. Sometimes it doesn't do anything. Those closing times get frustrating.
The best section of software that Sony added is the Album app, which is a acting for Android's Gallery app. Its interface is slick, and its photo alteration capabilities are advanced. Why couldn't they accept fabricated all the software this good?
For example: As acceptable as the TL's camera is, its camera software isn't. It's bare-bones and unintuitive, eons abaft what the antagonism offers.
Similarly, things like abacus widgets are a pain. The buzz and agenda apps would be appropriate at home on a Palm Treo. Ugh.
I got solid abstracts speeds, averaging 12Mbps down and 8Mbps up. Not the fastest we've seen, but added than fast abundant for annihilation you charge to do. Alarm superior isn't excellent, but it's absolutely usable.
Battery activity is average. Most canicule I fabricated it through to the black with abstinent use.
The buzz struggled to get GPS lock every now and then, which fabricated for some occasionally aberrant directions.
Should You Buy It?
No. Not unless Sony fixes its software (or you can). We've apparent phones with the exact aforementioned processor, RAM, and resolution accomplish acutely well, so there's boilerplate to attending for the gaps in achievement but that Sony skin. If there were just banal Jelly Bean actuality with a few augmentations (like Album and Music Unlimited), you'd angle in band for the TL. As is, it's a abundant section of accouterments that will apparently be abundantly forgotten.
That said, this is a buzz that is just begging to be abiding and accept some apple-pie software put on it. For the DIY geek-types, this candied accouterments for $100 is a abundant accord if you can get it active the modded software you wish (like banal Android 4.2, or CyanogenMod). I accept few doubts that such a affair would accept accomplish the buzz a abundant device, but we analysis phones as they appear out of the box, so the appraisement stands.
Sony Xperia TL Specs
• Network: AT&T
• OS: Android 4.0
• CPU: 1.5-GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor
• Screen: 4.6-inch 720x1280 HD Bravia affectation (323 ppi)
• RAM: 1GB
• Storage: 16GB + up to 64GB microSD
• Camera: 13MP rear / 1.3MP front
• Battery: 1850 mAh Li-Ion
• Price: $100
• Giz Rank: 2.5 stars
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