Sony Xperia Tipo dual Android is a smartphone for those with modest budgets, which can accommodate two SIM cards. The model is equipped with a 3.2 inch TFT screen with resolution 480 x 320 pixels and capacitive touch interface. In case weighing 99.4 grams and 13 mm thick hide Xperia Tipo dual single-core processor at 800 MHz based on a core Snapdragon, 512 MB RAM respectively. On the back we find a 3.2 megapixel camera and external speaker above have an audio output headphone jack and micro USB connector found on the side. Internal storage is limited to 2.2 GB, but can be expanded by adding a MicroSD memory card. List of facilities also includes WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, GPS receiver and a stereo FM radio mode. Switching between the two SIM cards is possible by pressing a physical button installed on the casing, or configuring your phone to automatically change the active SIM cards at certain times of day. Those who do not need the second card slot can choose the Sony Xperia Tipo, with a slightly reduced price.
Similar to that of other big players of the mobile industry, Sony is also steeping into market with some of its high-end creations. To score the attention of the dual SIM buyers, Sony has come-up with its Tipo Dual touch screen phone that runs on latest Android 4.0. The phone belongs to the Sony's flagship Xperia series and is equipped lots of attractive features for your ultimate entertainment. Despite its low price, taking into consideration that it is an Android phone, no compromise has been made with product quality.
Key Features
Design and Build Quality
With dimensions of 103 x 57 x 13 mm and a total weight of 99.4gm, the phone is sleek and smart in looks. It comes in bar-form factor with attractive black colour and has full plastic body, which feels sturdy and durable. The rear, sides and the bottom chin at the front is covered with silver variant, which adds more attraction to its overall design. Mineral glass is used to cover the display panel of the phone, which is although scratch resistant, but is prone to fingerprints. Beneath the display screen, you will find a row of three capacitive buttons. The sides of the phone are covered by volume rocker and a dedicated SIM switching button, while at the rear top portion, you will find a 3MP camera.
Display and Camera
Being a touch screen phone, the display of Xperia Tipo Dual covers almost all the front portion. It is equipped with 3.2 inches of TFT capacitive touch screen, which delivers an HVGA resolution of 320 x 480 pixels and 262K colours. The display provides you better and bright viewing of images, videos and other content. More on this, the phone is equipped with scratch resistant, handwriting recognition, gesture support and multi touch like attractive and highly useful display features.
To capture beautiful moments of life instantly, the phone is equipped with 3.2MP rear camera. It comes with 4x digital zoom to capture distant subjects clearly and is capable of recording videos at 640 x 480 pixels resolution. Images can be captured in JPEG format and videos can be recorded and played back in 3GPP, MP4 formats. Apart from this, images can be played back in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WBMP supported formats. As an additional advantage, the camera has Geo-tagging, Send to Web and Self Timer like useful features.
UI and Performance
The phone runs on latest Android 4.0 Ice-cream Sandwich OS, and to enhance the usability, it comes with Timescape user interface. The phone is powered by 800MHz Cortex-A5 processor, which is based on Qualcomm Scorpion MSM7225A chipset. Though the processor is slow, but with support Android ICS OS, it gives you comparatively decent performance. To enhance your visual experience, the phone comes with Adreno 200 graphics processor.
Battery and Storage
The phone is backed by 1500mAh Li-ion battery, which provides you impressive up to 5 hours of talk time with 2G network and up to 6 hours with 3G network. Apart from this, in standby mode, the phone runs for 350 hrs in 2G network and 360 hrs in 3G network. It also impresses you in terms of storage capacity. To provide you enough space to store music and video files, the phone possesses 2.9GB of internal memory, 512MB of RAM and up to 32GB of expandable memory.
Connectivity Features
Xperia Tipo Dual is a dual SIM phone, which supports quad-band GSM network on both SIM 1 and 2 and also 3G network on both SIM. To keep you connected to the Internet via multiple features, the phone is equipped with GPRS and EDGE technologies with support to 2G network. For 3G connectivity at faster browsing speed, it supports HSDPA and HSUPA technologies. For transferring or sharing of files, you have Bluetooth v2.1 and micro USB 2.0 facilities. For wireless connectivity, it has 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi capabilities. More on this, Wi-Fi hotspot and micro USB port lets you to connect your phone with other device as well. Icing on the cake, the phone acts a navigation system in the form of Google maps, which uses assisted-GPS technology.
Multimedia and Other Applications
To keep you entertained all the time, the phone has multiple features. You can listen to music with its supported music player and FM radio, and can watch videos on the supported video player, even on the move. With the help of xLOUD Audio Filter technology and TrackID music recognition, you can enhance the sound, which thus, make the multimedia functions more pleasing. Additional to all this, the phone is equipped with predictive text input, 3D gaming, Accelerometer sensor, Proximity sensor and compass to boost-up the ease-of-use. Social networking features of the phone include Facebook, Twitter and Instant Messaging, which helps you to stay in touch with your family members and friends conveniently. Icing on the cake, the phone comes pre-loaded with Google Voice Search, Google Talk, Google Mail, Google Maps with Street View and Latitude like useful applications.
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