Sony Xperia XA Ultra Unboxing & Hands-On Review By GadgetMatch

The largest phone in Sony's 2016 lineup is this supersize, the mid-range her, the Xperia x8 ultra a 6-inch beauty with a near borderless display and a selfie flash, but we're getting ahead of ourselves: hi I'm, Michael, Josh and you're watching gadget match in our previous video. We unboxed the Samsung Galaxy a 9 pro, so we thought why not continue the theme and unbox another 6 inch smartphone. This is our Sony Opera, x8, altar, unboxing and hands-on review. This is how the Box looks like muted, compared to say the box of the c5 ultra from last year. There's nothing special about the box or the packaging when you lift it open you'll find the phone wrapped in plastic. Underneath the phone is this SIM card tray explainer and when you lift this compartment open the usual stuff, USB, cable charger, headphones warranty card and startup guide typical to Sony the phone supports quick charging, but doesn't ship with a charger that supports it.

Sony's website says you need the optional such twelve chargers for that. Okay, now on to the phone, we have the lime gold version, but it also comes in white and black initial impressions well, compared to other six inch smartphones that we've held this one doesn't feel as wide it's a very beautiful phone. There are hardly any bezels on it and especially when the display is turned on it's a beauty. The phone shares the same design language as other Xperia phones, squarish with rounded corners. The phone feels solid thanks to a metal frame.

Although its back is made of polycarbonate plastic. There is a slight curve to the frame and the display making it comfortable to hold all buttons are on the right side of the phone, including a rounded power button, volume, rocker and dedicated camera shutter button back home and menu buttons are on screen on the left. Behind this flap is a dual NATO SIM card tray and a separate micro SD card slot. You'll need one because the phone only supports 16 gig vast's of internal storage on top is its headphone jack and on the bottom speaker, girls and a microUSB port. Let's take a look at the spec sheet.

While we power on the device, the interface on the A ultra, isn't different from any of Sony's other phones this year and if you're a Sony user, not that different from pass phones either. The drop-down notification shade looks like this. App drawer looks like this and the settings menu like this. The Xperia x8 altar runs Android 6.0 marshmallow out of the box. Now, because this is a big phone when you swipe up diagonally from either bottom corner of the screen, it lets you shrink the screen for one-handed use.

One of the big selling points of the A ultra is its two cameras: 21.5 megapixels, with hybrid autofocus, on the back and a 16 megapixel selfie camera that Sony claims does well even in low-light and if that's not enough, it's thrown in a selfie flash. Also, both cameras performed as advertised. The main camera does well, especially when shooting outdoors it's not the most snappy of cameras, but shots turned out great, well-balanced and not over saturated depth. The field was nice too night shots weren't as spectacular, but decent, but the phone's best feature is its selfie camera. There aren't many phones with a front-facing flash, and we really like the fill flash setting, because it gives you a soft light.

That's not harsh after we shot this unboxing, we use the phone for a couple of days so that we could answer to questions about performance and battery life. The A ultra runs on a mid-range MediaTek processor called the Hello p10, so we didn't expect blazing performance, but in the limited time that we used it, the interface felt snappy, and the phone ran graphics, intensive games smoothly, which is great because the phone's display would have otherwise been a waste overall. The A ultra is a perfect multi Media device with a bright display and loudspeakers battery life, on the other hand, could be better. Most phones of this size come with large batteries. The A ultra only has a 2700 William hour battery, that's even smaller than what's on some 5-inch phones.

These days, based on our tests, the battery will last about 6 hours with average use, but, what's worse is that it takes more than 2 hours to fully charge the phone using the included charger. If you have a quick charger at home, the phone will juice up faster in the US, the Sony Xperia x8, altar retails for just under 330 u. s. dollars. It's also available across Southeast, Asia and India for respective pricing check out the description below the Philippines.

It costs nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninety pesos. So is the Sony Xperia x8 ultra your gadget match. If you're looking for a phone, that's six inches or larger, then this is definitely one to consider compared to other extra-large phones of 2016. This phone is priced competitively. Both the nine pro from Samsung and the before 3 ultra are more pricey.

What we like about this phone is its super sleek looks and almost borderless display, plus it's great multimedia capabilities and decent cameras. Where it fails, is its subpar battery and a missing fingerprint sensor, which is now pretty standard even on mid-range phones? You might also want to hold off a bit because, after we've unboxed all its rivals, we're planning our first head-to-head video, the Battle of the super sized smartphones. If you will to make sure you don't miss that video subscribe to our YouTube channel, like our Facebook page and follow gadget Mash elsewhere on social media, plus make it a point to visit gadget mat com daily until the next video, I'm Michael josh, thanks for dropping by you.

Source : GadgetMatch