Hi All,
Can anybody share their experience of Xperia Mini Pro(SK17i) model?
Thanks in advance.
hello there:
youll'see , i've been using many cameraphones the last 3 years, and i conclude the following about xperia mini pro sk17.
audio: very good audio quality, music, talking, speaker. the headphones provided in the retail box, are uninspiring. better to get another pair.
battery life: i upgrade it to 2.3.4 version of gingerbreag (0.62 i think), and the battery duration is awesome, using camera, hd recording, all day wifi, etc,etc.
very goog performance.
display: bravia engine, or whatever they call, for me its an acceptable led display. and sunlight legibility is very goog indeed.
support of multitouch and pinch zooming is present. the 3" display is ok for my big fingers. gorilla glass process is present here too.
design and contruction: good construction quality. strong enough plastic-rubber body (battery cover), with a metal "line" in the middle. full qwerty retro-iluminated keyboard, again, very good for my big fingers.
shutter key for the camcorder is wellcome here.
the battery cover its hard to take away. you better have nails to pull the cover off.
user interface: sony ericsson make a good job with this device. the 3" display its well organized with 4 bubbles, in each corner, in order to customize the shortcuts that you want. besides, you can add more than one shortcut in the desktop. i chose the ADW LAUNCHER from the market. you can customize the size of the shortcuts for example, and you can add many more than the original launcher in one desktop but a very nice user interface from sony this time.
multimedia: here i will desagree with many users sorry for that pals, but i have proves of this.
the camera settings are well covered, with smile sensor (you can adjunst the smile level in order to make the autoshot), multi-single-and touch focus, and many more options of the point and shot cameras. that's ok!.
the AUTOMATIC FLASH is wellcome here too (many sony ericcson devices don't have auto-flash, you have to activate it first, take the foto, then turn it off... XPERIA X10, VIVAZ, etc - a real joke and a ridiculous thing). that's no problem here thanks GOD.
so, most important thing: PICTURE QUALITY. it's not the best in 5mpx league.
it's enough to take some shots when you forgot your point and shot camera...
but... i say this, because previously i used some other cameraphones and the quality of them, are superior to this one. the pictures are too compresed the colours are good enough, but there is no much resolved detail, so this produces much noise when you make zoom in the taken photo.
i bring you here 4 samples, not all taken at the same time of course, but it's the same situation. an ANT with MACRO MODE SHOT TAKEN.
Please, take a look of the detail, with a 100% zoom.
you'll see what i'm talking about. of course in the bravia display they all look good enough, but when you transfer to a desktop computer, you'll be very disapoint about it.
Please, kinldy, download the samples to see the comparisson between this picture quality.
w w w . 4shared.com/rar/d_zvXKH5/HORMIGAS_MACRO.htm
the samples where taken with the following cameraphones:
NOKIA E72 - 5MPX
NOKIA N82 - 5MPX
NOKIA N95 - 5MPX
SAMSUNG I8510 - 8MPX (but the pic. is resized to 5mpx)
SONY SK17
i think sony beats in terms. of quality the photo taken with the N95, at least, this photo (not well taken, i admit). but the rest of the rivals, beats the sony boy.
finishing with this small , user experience review, i must say that there is ONE MORE THING THAT, FOR MY SURPRISE, this phone MISSES....
the secondary front facing camera, it's very good.... TO TAKE PICTURES AND MAKE VIDEOCHAT..... just that.
NO VIDEOCALLING OVER 3G is avaliable!!!!.... this is another ridiculous thing. and i don't know why.
hope sony ericsson, or sony mobile, whatever, solve this problem with ICS update, if this is a software problem.
that's it. so, concluding, i can say that this is an exellent phone, that resume many features of the big display ones, but in a small, well shaped, size.
and of course, with a 1ghz snapdragon processor and 512 mb of ram. don't forget the fm radio player onboard. many android devices miss this feature, and the hardware capabbility of this phone is the same that you can find in XPERIA PLAY, ARC, NEO, for example...without the exmor sensor of the camera in those ones.
hd recording is pleasent for me, although, at 24 fps.
i dont know the international price for this model, but, in my country, Argentina, i bought it NEW from PERSONAL, for u$s200 with a plan of u$s 27 per month (200 min+200 sms+200mms+200mb data).
so i think that this ALL FEATURE PHONE, IT'S CHEAP if you look what it offers.
thanks for your tiMe to read this.
sorry for my english to everyone.
see ya'
magase, from buenos aires.