Sony Xperia S

OK have the Xperia S for a week now and here are my thoughts

Good stuff
• Screen – amazing
• Sound from both speakers and headphones is great
• Well built
• Looks great
• NFC (still waiting on the tags to be sent to me but possibilities look endless)
• Camera is great
• 50GB free space on Box.com (online cloud storage)
• Some great apps like Timescape, Liveware manager, Powersaver, TrackID,
• Notification light is good.
• Battery seems pretty good so far – getting about 18hrs of heavy first week use and tinkering (old HTC Desire would get just 24 hrs of use normally)


Not so Good stuff
• The cover on charging port is annoying – also the charging cable is hard to push in and remove
• The capacitive buttons take a bit of getting used to (they actually act more like hardware buttons and maybe that is a good thing but they take a bit of getting used to)
• There is a bit of a lag when swishing between home screens
• The Calendar and Contacts app are poor – very hard to come from great Sense UI on HTC to these as they are not good.
• Seems to be a bit of a lag when pressing the app drawer and sometimes takes 2 presses to open it.
• When scrolling up and down screens fast text gets a bit blurred (this didn’t happen on old HTC Legend or Desire)
• The top right of my screen seems a bit unresponsive (maybe just my handset)


So as you can see its a bit of give and take with this so far. A lot of my gripes are around software so hopefully with ICS on the way they can be resolved. Other than that its a great piece of kit and I am still getting used to it and trying to get the most out of it.

Yes lag is definitely present and is worse on the Xperia home launcher than it is on Go Launcher EX for example
I really hope ICS helps

another tip to save battery is
Settings -> Network Settings -> Mobile Network -> Network Mode -> select GSM only modes

marcbrophy wrote: »

I'm a bit cheesed off that my device has developed that yellow tint issue! :mad:

Does anyone know anything about getting it fixed?

Sony will repair it for free, ~2wks turnaround time.

tui0hcg wrote: »

can you post a screenshot?

The problem is with the screen on the device, so I'd need another camera to take a picture of the phone itself, but I don't have access to one now! I'll see what I can do later on.

ED E wrote: »

Sony will repair it for free, ~2wks turnaround time.

That's cool.
Would I be best to re-lock the bootloader and put on the correct firmware again, before sending it back?

ED E wrote: »

Fuuuuuuuuark! Mine just got a yellow spot on the top right. I could see it before when I tested it and heated to 40+ *C but this was when it was pretty cool. ICS is rumoured to be round the corner but I'm going to have to send it back :rolleyes:

They appear (based off Arc rhetoric) to not really care whats on a phone as long as it wasnt obviously overclocked, that said, for a few minutes work I'd do it. I'd wipe my phone before sending it anyways, dont want their techs snooping, so may as well while you're at it.

Crap, bad luck man!

How can you find out the heat of the device? Is there an app? My screen only needs to be on for about 60 seconds before I start to see it. Bottom, just over the home button, very noticeable :mad:

Yeah, I think for peace of mind, I'll set it back the way I got it and wipe it! I don't have a kernel that supports over-clocking anyway, so no real worries there!

Cool, I'll try that one anyway!!
SetCPU used to show me a temperature on other phones I've had, but on this one, it just shows 0.0 degrees the whole time!

Some do, loads dont.

And simfree generics mostly dont.

naughtb4 wrote: »

Im on meteor bill and got it two saturdays ago

I am on Meteor bill pay too but got the phone in CPW. Unlocked and unbranded and I still dont have the update.

Phone is starting to annoy me now as its doing strange stuff. GPS keeps turning on and I cant find any app that requires it, phone wont go on to vibrate when its set to do so through Timerific app, screen shuts off after 15 seconds of inactivity if I am reading a webpage (I have set it to 1 min and on other Androids it would dim first before going off completely)

Onboard memory keeps spiking up around 80% also but then drops to 30% for no reason even though there are only a couple of apps running

maybe its time to do a factory reset and start again. I hope ICS is a better experience than this

ED E wrote: »

THree branded, still 62.



GPS: Thats an app triggering it, got facebook?

When you're reading a page I find it handy to just keep one finder on it, move slightly every now and then so it never sleeps.



This is a good thing! Android isnt windows, it tries to fill memory rather than leave it empty, its wasted empty. The apps that it fills it with are frozen when not in use so they dont use any CPU cycles, but are ready to go when you need them.



ICS is designed for this generation of phones, unlike GB, so there's a good chance things will be a bit smoother.

Yes FB may be a culprit but I have that set to manual updates only so not sure what else it could be - Maybe Google+

I really hope ICS will be better as the software leaves me feeling hard done by and not in keeping with the really nice hardware

tui0hcg wrote: »

Yes FB may be a culprit but I have that set to manual updates only so not sure what else it could be - Maybe Google+

I really hope ICS will be better as the software leaves me feeling hard done by and not in keeping with the really nice hardware

Stupid question, but how do i set facebook to manual update?

IncognitoMan wrote: »

Has anyone bought a case or cover for this yet?

Has anyone found some one selling any on the high street?

Nilkin all the way guys.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Nillkin+Xperia+S

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