Sony Ericsson Xperia ray Review By PhoneArena

Hey everyone: this is Daniel from phone arena. Looking at the Sony Ericsson Xperia ray a teeny, tiny smartphone, which is one of the thinnest and lightest out there. It looks stylish and comes in several colors like this here. Red also glowing gold, but the shiny black mirrored front stays the same. As you can see here. The Xperia ray was the first to support the new frontal design of the Xperia line with this big semicircle here, a physical HOME key in the middle, which is easier to press than the thinner arch keys we had before this size is just right for the handset not to get completely lost in your palm.

If you have to your hands like mine, and you can reach with your thumb easily everywhere on the screen- and this makes it very suitable for one-handed operation. The other notable thing is the 3.3 inch display now in terms of size but resolution. The 480 by 854 pixels, make text crisp and details plenty when visiting websites or reading. It is also very good with viewing angles most likely. An IPS LCD and sports above average brightness for improved outside visibility, the back post, the 8 megapixel camera with Sony's Error R sensor, and we also have to mix here from noise cancellation.

We have a front-facing camera for video chat, unlike its bigger sibling, the Xperia Arc, it doesn't have the HDMI port on the Xperia Arc, though just this micros port here on the left hand, side which sometimes messes with handling the phone when the cable is plugged in as it's so small, the Xperia Ray's spelled and pretty on the outside. But let's take a look. How the user interface looks like as well. We examined the Timescale UX and rate overlay extensively in our Xperia Arc review, and, while we didn't exactly say it's as HTC sense, for example, it is pretty far out there and certainly more visually pleasing and Samsung's touch wiz, for example, even if we leave a site as an advantage, the new deep social network integration called Facebook inside Opera, which allows you to even see that the Facebook friend who is calling you has a birthday today, and it is intricately woven throughout the interface. Even if we leave that aside, the UI is a beauty with transitional animations and transparencies galore.

You almost never see the underlying Android 2.3 Gingerbread interface on the Xperia ray, except when you run some Google services apps or when you enter the gallery, which is your run-of-the-mill standard, Android gallery the one gigahertz Qualcomm, Snapdragon, s2 and 512 Meg's of RAM have proven themselves already in the other forms of the Xperia stable this year and don't disappoint here. ? running the interface smoothly and without lag typing on the fairly small touchscreen display of the Sony Ericsson Xperia ray, isn't very easy, especially with bigger hands, but there's not much you can do about it. Still. Both the portrait and landscape keyboards have well spaced keys, and the screen is just too small for correctly typing on this portrait keyboard in a quick manner. That's why we mainly use the landscape orientation like that, unlike what we don't false with 3.5 + inch displays the browser on the Sony Ericsson Xperia ray behaves very well. You can do, for example, panning while doing pinch to zoom, and despite that, the screen is small, fairly small at 3.3 inch. The handset wraps text well, and these 480 bites 54 pixels of resolution make for very crisp test text very easy to read.

Actually, as you can see, you just have to bring the phone closer to your eyes. The spoken chipset bar is very decent Adobe Flash display in the browser as well as you can see. It has no problem even showing flash video inside this heavily flash Latin website. As you can also hear, the speaker is very loud and very clear, something that's becoming a feature of the Xperia lion. That's for yourself.

The music player has this minimalistic interface, and it allows you to categorize your songs by artists, albums tracks and playlists, and you also have a number of equalizers to choose from about ten of them and me. Have this nice album art background while performing the song? The camera interface is the one we observed that on the Xperia Arc as well. It has a couple of preset capturing modes. This automatic Scene Recognition one is very good. It recognizes quickly the lighting conditions around you and adjusts accordingly, and that's the only way to shoot in a macro mode, for example, and this ultra Scene Recognition you just near the lens to some object and the small flower of the macro mode appears allowing you to capture pictures from to six inches close.

The eight megapixel shooter is with an some or our sensor, but the picture themselves turned out a bit washed out lacking detail and the colors were a bit off the same with the video which is, however, smooth at 30 frames per second, the other equivalent turns on the LED light on the back, but that's about it. It doesn't light up automatically as a regular LED flash. You have to turn it on manually, even in the photo mode, not only in video mode, which is a disappointment over all the Sony Ericsson Xperia ray made a very good impression as it's not a crippled version of the Xperia Arc just stay more compact one. It definitely holds an appeal for the design, conscious or female audience, with a stylish thin and a very light exterior, which is available in different colors. Look.

Timescale UX interface in its turn is also a beauty with the transparencies and transitional animations, and it's also pretty functional with this deep social networking integration of the Facebook insight Xperia project. When we had high pixel density display, the only complaint stays around the camera, whose photos are not what we will expect from an 8 megapixel Error R sensor and the LED light has to be turned on manually. Instead of serving as an automatic flash. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is more expensive, but not by much so, which way will you go depends on if you're actually looking for a more compact handset, in which case the Xperia ray, will fit you like an old shoe. This was a video review of the Sony Ericsson Xperia ray from phone arena for more information about this and other handsets.

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