Sony Xperia E1 Dual Mobile Price List in India

Features and Specifications

The phone has a 4inch WVGA display using TFT technology and offers a 480 x 800 pixel resolution with 16 million colors supported. The multimedia features on this phone are great with the inclusion of the Walkman app, Xloud Bass and big loudspeaker at the back capable of playing sound at 100 decibels. The phone has a 1.2GHz dual core processor, 512MG of RAM and for the graphics chip it uses an Adreno 320. The camera on the phone is 3MP at the rear and uses pulsed LED flash with SVGA video recording and 4x digital zoom.

Design and Quality

Rounded edges are the theme of the Sony Xperia E1 Dual handset. The curves are soft and make the phone very pleasing to hold. The phone comes in 3 colors Black, White and Purple which Sony claims are soft accented colors. A durable and sturdy plastic material is used for the phone’s body and feels solid enough to withstand drops and shocks. Overall the phone is just 12mm thick and weighs 122g which makes the small bar shaped phone feel nicely snug in the hand. The loudspeaker at the back is quite big and is found at the bottom covering the entire area but it doesn’t come off as gaudy which is a good thing.

OS and Tech

Sony went with an Android OS for their Sony Xperia E1 Dual handset; fitting it with v4.3 Jelly Bean. The phone can be upgraded to v4.4.2 KitKat Android bringing with it a lot of new features to improve the user experience. A 1.2GHz dual core processor is powering the phone making sure that the music playback performs great and causes less battery drainage. The 4 inch display uses TFT and WVGA technology capable of giving the capacitive touch screen 16 million colors to display making it appear very vibrant.

Camera and Multimedia

The main camera at the rear is just 3MP and features a LED pulsing flash while the front camera is VGA quality and good for selfies and video calling. The camera can be used to take SVGA video as well as images and has a 4X digital zoom to further the experience. Extra features in the camera include touch focus, touch capture, smile shutter, sweep panorama, face detection, etc. Where multimedia is concerned the phone supports M4V, MKV, XVID, 3GPP, AVI, MP4 and WEBM for video playback while for Music playback it can play the following formats: 3GPP, MP3, MP4, AMR, ADTS, SMF, OTA, XMF, RTTTL, RTX, iMelody, WAV, OGG and FLAC. The music playback on the phone is great with the huge loudspeaker capable of producing sound at 100decibels. For music playback the phone sports 3D Surround Audio, Xloud sound, Clear Stereo, Clear Bass, Clear Phase and Clear Audio+ technology.

Battery and Memory

The Sony Xperia E1 Dual has a 1750mAh Li-Ion battery which on first glance does not seem like much with a talk time of around 8 hours and a standby time of 366 hours. Sony has included a STAMINA mode in the phone which is said to significantly improve battery life by putting every non-essential feature on hibernate. The phone has 4GB of internal memory but has an option for a MicroSD card for up to 32GB to store all the users’ music and video files. Lastly the phone has 512MB of RAM and manages to be enough for some smooth multitasking and multimedia playback.

Pros and Cons

For Pros:

·         Great Music Playback

·         Big High Quality Loudspeaker

·         3G support

·         Android OS upgradable

For Cons:

·         Camera only 3MP

·         Only 512MB RAM

Verdict

Not many phones can claim to be great for music playback like the Sony Xperia E1 Dual. If we consider the major brands to come out with many music focused phones then it is limited to just 3 i.e. Sony, Apple and Nokia. The Sony Xperia E1 Dual has competition from the Nokia Lumia 620 and Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos S6802 but manages to beat them with its price point, great design and affordable price in comparison. Music lovers will enjoy all that this phone has to offer but will find the camera features to be very lackluster and be prone to occasional hanging with the low RAM.