Overview Sony Xperia X
Devices / / December 19, 2019
Xperia X model range consists of six units:
- The compact 4.6-inch Xperia X Compact on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 for 36 thousand rubles.
- Basic 5-inch xperia X on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 from 40 thousand rubles.
- A top 5-inch Xperia X Performance on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 from 50 thousand rubles.
- Budget 5-inch xperia XA on Mediatek Helio P10 of 22 thousand rubles.
- Large 6-inch Xperia XA Ultra on Mediatek Helio P10 of 28 thousand rubles.
- The flagship 5.2-inch xperia XZ on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (not yet sold at the time of the review).
Note the diagonal screens. Fortunately, Sony has not given general lopatnomu madness and gave users a choice compact devices for different needs and budgets, releasing only one PHABLET for lovers great smartphones.
If you will go to the official Sony store on one of the links above, you will find Dual-smartphone version at a slightly higher price (a thousand more). Dual differ from standard models of the presence of the hybrid slots for the second SIM card or microSD cards, and twice the size of internal storage. The standard also has a microSD versions, but instead put her second SIM cards can not.
It so happened that xperia X - is the first smartphone Sony, with whom I was able to get acquainted close. To be more precise, to the Xperia X experience with Sony mobile devices, I had not really, but because the review will be by a person, who took first in the hands of the modern smartphone manufacturer.
Design, performance and durability
At first glance, Xperia X surprises with its compact and minimalist.
Smartphone simple as IKEA furniture. None of the decorative excesses. If there is some element, then it is necessary and carries the functional load.
Rounded in all the corners neat aluminum body size 142.7 × 69.4 × 7.9 mm and a weight of 153 grams, fashionable 2.5D-glass manufacturer with an unspecified, but very strong. It would seem, what a wonderful sleek design, what is there to complain to?
When you read about the "distinctive design» Sony smartphones, it seems just a collection of some small features, combine to create a unique corporate identity and image, but in fact, Xperia X is not really similar to one another smartphone.
Look at the side right panel. Recessed mechanical button in the middle is responsible for turning the smartphone. It is also the fingerprint scanner. Pretty standard solution, but in practice it is very convenient. Finger quickly and easily find the button when the screen while pressing a simultaneous print reading or unlock the device. Due to the deepening of the probability of random inclusions virtually eliminated.
Strange things begin when you realize that the volume buttons are located at the bottom of the sidebar, that is under the power button.
I honestly tried to get used to them. A few days I am trying. I tried to use the ring finger and little finger, but either I was too krivorukost or mutant, or else the Sony own vision of human anatomy. I will not continue the argument, but simply ask experienced users and Xperia fans. Please write in the comments, so you really comfortable?
When it seemed that the sound control is too low, I saw a separate camera button, which is located even lower on the side panel. From a technical point of view, it is not to find fault, it's Sony, and Sony understands Photo Art. The camera button has two positions. Simply clicking on it, you lock the focus, and further pressing to click produces a picture. This is a very cool and comfortable, but there are two controversial points.
Firstly, the same button launches chamber when locked smartphone and, unlike the power button protrudes from the body, which leads to periodic random inclusions and the growing gallery of pictures of my insides pocket.
Secondly, such an arrangement makes it uncomfortable for vertical selfie. For horizontal shooting everything is fine: he lays a finger on the button, as you would with a camera, and no claim arises. Everything is changing in the vertical shooting.
The smartphone has to literally hold the tips of two fingers. And in the first minute Xperia X expected test photoshoot front camera slipped out of the hand model.
You know, when something falls out of hand, there is an uncontrollable urge to catch the object, but instead often turns to throw it even higher and unwind in flight. This is what happened with the smartphone. The fall from a height of about 180 centimeters tiled pavement. At such moments, everything slows down, and in my head there is a train of thought: "It's a pity because it cost 40 thousand. Oh, and I have not even had time to make screenshots of the interface. Sony will have to request to send another. "
Xperia X survived. A screen, even mesh did not go. Housing, of course, went. Look at the photo.
Angle literally erased as a file. The adjacent bottom corner also suffered. Along the perimeter of the side panels has a smaller damage, because the device tumbles and beating after the fall of the tile, if in convulsions.
But smartphone runs. Deformation has occurred, the glass in order. Let crash test and was not planned, but on the basis of random tests Xperia X gets a solid top five for strength.
Tip: When the vertical selfie on Xperia X is better to use the snapshot button on the screen of the camera application.
We were pleased with the slot design for SIM cards and memory cards, which is located on the left sidebar.
Plug picks nail and can be easily removed without tools.
The presence in the smartphone microSD 2016 nice in itself. The Dual-version of the memory card slot divides the second SIM card, and at the same time to use the second Simcoe and extended storage will not work.
The Xperia X has a 3.5-mm jack for headphones. :) It is situated at the top. Nearby is an optional microphone to eliminate unwanted noise.
On the bottom is found microUSB port and the main microphone.
Pay attention to the front panel, and more specifically, on the number of speakers on it.
Yes, two of them, and in a mode of watching videos or listening to music they are working together, producing high-quality stereo loud thanks to the frontal arrangement. Naturally, a saturated bottoms out of the question, but in general, the sound level higher than traditional smartphones with a single speaker.
The rear panel Xperia engraving, sticking out from the housing by less than one millimeter and modest main camera single flash.
Disappointment for Sony fans: the basic version of Xperia X is no longer protection against water. Now such a useful feature can boast only top-end Xperia X Performance.
camera
Would expect from a Sony camera would be bad enough. Sensors are used in the company's flagship models of many manufacturers, and for good reason. Obviously, that does not own a smartphone Sony squeezed a good camera, for which it uses a 23-megapixel IMX 300.
The native application is provided with a chamber gentleman set shooting modes including conditional manual collection filters and other fashionable treatments and is able to maintain focus on a selected subject even if it moves in frame. HDR available.
Confused by the lack of possibilities to include the net for smoother horizons. Recording 4K video, by the way, either.
The picture quality in adverse conditions you can appreciate yourself. Overcast sky, a photo of the sun.
The front camera with 13-megapixel sensor does its job fine.
Screen
Xperia X equipped with a 5-inch IPS-display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels and a density of 441 ppi, protected unknown 2.5D-glass with oleophobic coating. Currently, all high-quality IPS-screen mounted in the base and the top-end smartphones, allow approximately the same image quality, that is, for the average user, not crazy about the graphs and curves, the difference there is no.
Sony Xperia X display more than satisfies the quality criteria IPS, giving a clear bright image with excellent color reproduction reliability and uniform illumination. If desired, the color characteristics are set manually or proprietary mode X-Reality and Super-vivid.
Filling
Xperia X works on shestiyadernyh Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 (2 cores Cortex-A72 1,8 GHz and 4 cores Cortex-A53 1,4 GHz). The graphics handled Adreno 510. Although this configuration is not a top, but still allows you to confidently pull smartphone 3D-demanding games at maximum graphics, producing 58 fps in World of Tanks, and 29 fps in Modern Combat 5. AnTuTu test showed the following results:
In the standard established Xperia X 3 GB of RAM and a 32 GB flash memory + microSD to 200 GB. The Dual-version - 3 GB of RAM and a 64 GB flash memory + microSD to 200 GB.
Smartphone supports all of the latest forms of communication and feel great in LTE, providing download speeds of up to 300 megabits per second. The presence of Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi in the 2.4 and 5 GHz, NFC, who is friends with the Mifare Classic, and a microUSB port with OTG. Support for such things as GPS and GLONASS, perhaps, we are not talking.
System
Xperia X runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow, on top of the system is worth a proprietary shell Xperia Home.
In addition to redraw the icons, the default user is prompted design theme that matches the color of the smartphone, branded services Lounge and the TrackID, as well as the Playstation app turns your Xperia in an additional screen for console.
Branded Player in combination with software tools to optimize and enhance the sound works fine. Still, it's Sony, which created once the Walkman, and the music she has always been good.
The whole system is quite nimble and responsive, but expect another from a smartphone with such fillings would be weird. You get used to the Xperia Home quickly and easily.
Battery
The Xperia X installed is not the most capacious battery to 2560 mAh, which is enough for a day of active use in standard scenarios without too many games and too power hungry applications.
3D-heavy games devastate Xperia X battery in 5 hours, streaming videos from YouTube with automatic brightness adjustment completely puts smartphone for 8 hours.
When the urgent need to extend the time of operation, the user device may refer to Stamina power-saving mode or Ultra Stamina, actually turns a smartphone ordinary dialer.
In the best traditions of the Sony Xperia?
With this issue I want to appeal to advanced users Sony, Xperia no one was in one's hands. Do you think that the evolution of smartphones from this manufacturer goes in the right direction, because for a person for the first time who took the hands of Xperia X, some of the design decisions, and in particular the location of the buttons seem to be openly strange.
The rest of the Xperia X is good. Minimalistic, stylish, compact, extremely durable and smart smartphone, perfectly mastering photos and music. Access to the SIM card and the memory card without a special key, which is never at hand - it's very cool. A bit disappointing due to the lack of moisture protection, which is very much like to check in person. And I'm not sure many people will agree to pay extra 10 thousand rubles for the Xperia X Performance for this function.
Dual-release smartphones definitely pleased. At least, I can not think of another manufacturer Sony level, offering twice the amount of internal storage memory and a second SIM slot is only a thousand rubles.
Here is a good, but a little strange smartphone. What do you think?