The Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo combines excellent functionality and reasonable price to give you an excellent smartphone that will definitely stand out.
The market has been saturated with Android devices, but the Xperia Neo’s 3.7-inch screen enhanced with Mobile Bravia technology and an 8.1-megapixel sensor does manage to break through and shine on its own.
The Xperia Neo’s 3.7-inch screen is capable of resolutions up to 480 x 854 pixels. The LED-backlit LCD capacitive touchscreen comes with Sony’s Mobile Bravia engine, which gives clearer, more saturated colors to your screen. When turned on, the software enhancement definitely shows noticeable improvement in overall image quality. The only problem is its low legibility under sunlight.
The Xperia Neo’s body is round and curvy. The Neo is not that thin, but its not bulky either. There are three physical keys on the front, a lock button, volume rocker and camera shutter key all on the right. The front holds a large VGA front facing camera with proximity and light sensors. At the back is the 8.1-megapixel auto-focus camera equipped with LED flash. Finally, a 3.5mm headset jack sits on top, encircled by lid-protected microUSB and HDMI ports.
The Xperia Neo comes in with the latest version of Android – 2.3 Gingerbread. It is ran by a 2nd generation single-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 chipset clocked at 1GHz with Adreno 205 graphics. RAM memory stands at the healthy 512MB.
As with all Sony Ericsson smartphones, the Neo comes with Sony Ericssons proprietary user interface. It changes the lockscreen, the home screen which allows you to pinch to zoom out and get an overview of all the active widgets, neatly arranged to fit the screen, and a transparent main menu panel supporting easy app rearrangement in an alphabetical, most used or recently installed order. The whole UI is spiced up with very smooth animations, which you can opt to turn off from the settings menu.
The stock Android browser supports Adobe Flash and runs fairly smoothly. Pinch-to-zoom and double taps all work flawlessly. The browser also supports text wrapping, so you get a better view of the text when you zoom in.
As for connectivity, the Xperia Neo offers almost everything. It comes with HSPA, supporting down speeds of up to 10.2Mbps, Wi-Fi b/g/n, hotspot functionality, DLNA , GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 and a microSD slot supporting cards of up to 32GB. It’s a global, quad-band GSM device, so you can use it without a problem when you travel abroad.
As for its camera, the 8.1-megapixel camera with LED flash is one of the best camera for a smartphone. Sony’s EXMOR R sensor improves significantly low-light performance. This is one of the main selling point for this phone. In terms of manual settings you have plenty to choose from including focusing and scene settings with only effects like black and white shots and sepia missing.
For video recordings, you have 720p HD capture at 30 frames per second. You can also use the LED flash to illuminate nightly scenes. The 1GHz processor runs videos encoded at up to 720p without a hitch. With the phone’s HDMI cable, you just have to get an HDMI cable to stream that content seamlessly to your HD TV. The 3.7-inch wide screen with punchy colors delivered by the Mobile Bravia engine is a valuable asset when you turn to video playback, but the handset doesn’t support DivX/Xvid codecs out of the box.
The phone’s 1500mAh battery gives users 7 hours of talk time on a 3G network.
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