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Sony Xperia S Review Unboxing and Hardware Tour

2012-02-29
hello everyone this is hi marietta from pocketnow.com here in Barcelona and the BC Tony on camera illusion somewhere out there getting us coffee and guess what this is our unboxing review of the Sony Xperia S which was launched today for sale here at Barcelona and whoa what do we think of it starting from now well this is sony design 2012 this is sony design 2011 there's a huge difference let's talk about it okay so the difference between Sony devices last year was a lot of plastic honestly terrible hardware flimsy the screen was not great hardware buttons and obviously they've changed the line this year let's start talking about the Xperia S which was launched today let's start our unboxing just pull the flap here okay nothing here okay here we go this is the Xperia S we got it in white because obviously we're not fans of fingerprint magnet so let's move this to the side let's go through the box see what we got here we've got well good question not sure what that is literature I guess a lot of literature and we've got some sort of a screen protector which I obviously hate and some cleaner cloth somewhere there let's continue going here we've got o NH mini HDMI to HDMI cable awesome it's got HDMI out so it's great to have the cable and I'll have to pay for it let's continue here we've got a micro USB cable yeah for charging see here in ear headphones good quality or not it's well it's gonna be my daily driver for the next couple of days so we'll see and obviously we've got the European adapter through USB because we're in Europe so let's move this aside let's start talking about the Xperia S so far well this is plastic at the back it's not really the most amazing plastic yeah very flimsy very cheap but if you could see the battery is non-removable this is a seven seventeen thousand sorry 1750 milliamp hour battery micro sim jack right here we've got a 12 megapixel camera with a LED flash and this is the Exmor R sensor camera it's a great camera apparently we'll see about that and kind of funny their branding this is a sony in well this then snapping well let's try to snap it back here we go and we've got the old Sony Ericsson logo there Xperia we've got this sort of train sparrin I'm not sure if you can see this let's try to put it here but you can see that this is transparent on each side obviously we've got this plastic here let's peel it off we've got a front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera we've got a 720p 4.3 inch display and as it mentions in the box at the bottom it's got the Bravia Engine which helps with contrast and everything it's a PlayStation Certified phone so we've got the and Reno GPU included 3ds suite panorama for photos I imagine X loud enhanced engine for audio so these this actually this sort of a chrome strip it's got these three little points here which are actually capacitive buttons and well at the bottom we've got pretty much a land yard hold to the side we've got the microUSB connector it's covered which is kind of nice some people like power on power off button 3.5 millimeter headphone jack the speaker we've got micro or mini mini HDMI out here and we've got the cable included and we've got a dedicated camera button which is actually really good obviously they're taking advantage of their XOR sensor volume up volume down button the Spreaker here we're gonna be testing this gonna become my daily driver from today on we're gonna put our vodafone prepaid SIM card and test it out again if we could probably look at this I mean look at this plasticky and ugly this is still plastic but it doesn't look as cheap obviously we're gonna be comparing it to other phones you already saw our comparisons in the PR boots and everything you already saw our hands on and now we're gonna tell you if the phone is worth buying or not so Tony on camera Lucien at the back again this is the Sony Xperia S 1.5 gigahertz dual-core Snapdragon processor forgot to mention also one gigabyte of RAM 32 gigabytes of on-board storage it costs the 600 euros which is about 750 dollars somewhere around there is it worth your hard-earned cash we'll tell you now
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