Sony has a tradition of secondary phones are priced at attractive prices and hefty spec. One of them is the Sony Xperia L at a price of Rp. 2999,000. Xperia L comes with a 4.3 inch screen FWVGA resolution (854x480 pixels) scratch-resistant glass that is already protected, but does not have the support of the Mobile BRAVIA technology. Camera held Xperia L 8MP and is equipped with a sensor Exmor RS plus HDR feature and dedicated camera button. For performance, the Xperia L Qualcomm MSM8230 Snapdragon chipset dual core 1 GHz processor, Adreno 305 GPU and 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage and a Micro SD slot. Everything is powered by a lithium ion battery with a capacity of 1750mAh. How is the performance of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean smartphone which cost Rp. 2.949 million this?
Impression Design and Materials
At the initial impression Xperia L feels a bit thick and bulky for a device with a 4.3 inch screen. The body is slightly curved at the rear with a similar power button Xperia Z and SP. It appears that this will be the icon of this year's line of Xperia smartphones. Silver list on the side, but thin enough to sweeten the look of the phone. Talk to the display, the Xperia L is wider at the rear than the front as found on the Xperia E and Xperia J. When gripped, the curved part of the phone makes a comfortable grip, but rather on the power button protrudes forward quite disturbing. Finishing materials and this phone is quite good, typical smartphone Sony.
Ingredients phone is mostly plastic, glossy plastic on the front and matte plastic on the back of the battery cover, which can be opened when you want to replace the battery and SIM card and micro SD. Doff plastic material is rather easy to get dirty, let alone clean it quite difficult (to be rubbed). Micro USB port is on the left, while on the right there is the power button, volume and camera shutter button, which is unpopular in today's smartphone smartphones. At the top there is a 3.5mm audio jack. While on the back there is an 8MP camera, an LED flash, the XPERIA logo and the loudspeaker. At the bottom of the silver list no LED notification lights, but not only that function, while displaying photos then the LED light will light up with a color that depends on the dominant color on the screen. Suppose photo red rose, the red LED will light.
Screen
If talk smartphone Sony Bravia engine is identical to, display technology brought from the ranks of Sony Bravia HDTV. But L is not equipped Xperia these features. Still does not mean the screen is ugly, the overall color is displayed, the brightness and the contrast is pretty good, plus the viewing angle, it looks good even when compared with the Xperia Z, misty effect on the screen when tilted is not too severe. When displaying the color is slightly yellowish white color, but not too distracting. As there is no Bravia Engine, photo gallery and a video display screen nonjok less than the Sony with Bravia Engine.
Interface
Overall the interface used Sony still is not much different from the previous device. For the lockscreen, you can use its own wallpaper, which is different from the homescreen wallpaper. No shortcuts in lockscreen music and camera. You can directly access the notification bar from the lockscreen this page. Notification bar on the Xperia L has a quick toggle for: voice (profile), bluetooth, wifi and data packets, as well as access to the settings.
There are several themes that you can use on the Xperia Xperia L, Amethyst, Ruby, Sapphire and others but the modification is not much, most noticeably only the background image only. On the homescreen by default there are 5 pages home, most can be added up to a total of 7 pieces. To set the Home page, change the Themes and add widgets, pinch the screen to the inside. The size of the widget can be changed as other devices Jelly Bean. For the setting, there is only an option for font size selection.
Drawer applications still use the Sony's hallmark locked in a box with size 4x4 applications. The icons can be arranged alphabetically, most used, tarbaru installed and of course your own can be set arbitrarily. Like the Xperia Z, Xperia L does not use physical buttons, but the virtual keys in succession: Back, Home and Recent Apps. Hold down the Home button and swipe up to go to Google Now. Overall performance has been quite good Xperia L, no longer feels annoying.
Text Input, Phonebook and Messaging
For typing you can use Google Voice Typing and Xperia keyboard. The features are there as usual, which is a feature Spell checker, prediction, autocorrect, and sound and vibration. For a different way of writing a feature Gesture Input (like Swype). If you do not like the QWERTY keyboard, you can choose the numeric keyboard. There are 3 color background that can be used for keyboards: white, black and gray. Writing Xperia L is fairly easy to use, both in landscape and portrait; one or two hands, because the letters are arranged separately from each other.
Contacts can be synchronized with a PC via the PC Companion, and of course online accounts such as Google and Facebook. In addition, you can import contacts from your SIM card and storage. As for messaging, should a cell phone, no SMS, MMS, Email and Instant Messaging. In SMS templates and starred a feature to mark important messages. Emails can use GMail and other email.
Camera and Video Recorder
By utilizing a camera shutter button and the Quick Launch feature, you can easily use the camera, from any menu or while opening other apps. Quick Launch has several settings namely: direct snap photos so hold the camera button from another application, record video directly, or just open the camera application only. The camera interface on the Xperia L be the one with the video recorder. The interface is quite simple and very clear, not long-winded. Its pretty much anything, including:
- Effect: Nostalgic, miniature, vivid, filters and other
- Sweep panorama
- Scene Selection: landscape, backlight night, sport, etc.
- HDR
- Flash (auto, fill flash and red eye reduction)
- Smile Shutter: there are several levels of a smile, like a big smile, a small smile, the average
- Focus mode: single autofocus, touch focus and face detection. Besides it can focus the camera by pressing the shutter button halfway physical.
- Settings: resolution, self timer, exposure level, ISO level, white balance, metering, image stabilizer, geotagging, shutter sound, and Data Storage.
The results of a typical Sony nice camera, detailed and natural. But sometimes doing the focus to the object that is close to the macro mode is rather difficult.
Video recording its certainly not as much as the camera, among other things:
- Scenes
- HDR
- Photo Light
- Setting the video resolution, self timer, geotagging, microphone, touch capture, shutter sound and data storage
Results 720p resolution video recording bitrate present in 12000kbps with 28 frames per second framerate. A minute of video recording produces a file of 86MB. The results of the video is nice and clear, to result with stronger colors, no HDR mode.
Photo Gallery
Xperia L using photo gallery the same as the Xperia Z, the album. Photos can be viewed by date and album (folder), for the album itself can be synced with your Facebook. In addition to photos, videos are also featured in this app. Of interest are the effects used, thumbnail view thumbnails in a folder can be in the zoom-in zoom-out by pinching the screen, with attractive animations. In the photo there is a description of GPS tagging and image capture time, if you enable geotagging features. Photos can be shared, created slideshows, simple edit, crop, used as wallpaper or contact, in-rotate and see the details.
Video Players
Like a photo album, video player similar to the Xperia Z, with attractive appearance, there is a video preview of the video seen before. Features Get Video Details change thumbnail and video data, taken from the Gracenote database. Quite a lot of video formats that are readable by smoothly until 720p for example .mp4, .mkv, .mov, and .avi. 1080p format can not be played, as well as the subtitle can not be displayed. There are settings in the sound as a music player: Surround sound, clear stereo, clear phase (automatically adjust the sound quality from the internal speakers), xLOUD, and Dynamic Normalizer (minimizing the difference between the sound of a song or video).
Music Players
Sony Walkman brand to enter a music player app for his smartphone. The songs are divided into several categories such as tracks, albums, artists, playlists, SensMe channel, My Favourite and Friend's Music (see music shared your friends on Facebook). There visualizer features with a variety of interesting themes, as a companion album art. The sound quality through the headset has a typical Sony, with powerful bass and crystal clear, but do not bury the treble sound. There is a feature Clear Audio + to add clarity, so that the song sounds more clear and sharp. Sound output via loudspeaker tight, but unfortunately shrill. Xperia L has an FM radio but as always you have to plug the headset as an antenna support.
Connectivity
- HSDPA, GSM quadband
- aGPS
- Bluetooth 4.0
- WiFi a / b / g / n (DLNA capabilities, WiFi hotspot)
- NFC
- micro USB (via MHL HDMI capabilities)
- 3.5 mm audio port
Web Browser
There are two default browser on the Xperia Z namely Google Chrome and Opera Mini. For a better experience true internet you're using Google Chrome, which can be synchronized with the desktop version of Chrome through your account. There is no maximum limit for the tabs can be opened. Performance when opening the desktop version of the website as TeknoUp quite smooth. To click a small button that is easy enough although the screen size is not too large. There are some standard features such as Incognito, Share, Find, and arrangements of standards such as privacy, accessibility, content and others.
Benchmark
- AnTuTu: 10 689 points
- Quadrant Standard: 4179 points
- NenaMark 2: 60.6 frames per second
- Multitouch Tester: maximum 4 touch
Battery Life
- Browsing Test: 5 hours 33 minutes
- Test 480p Video playback: 7 hours
- Screenshot Test: 5 hours
Conclusion
As usual Sony brings high-quality medium-class devices. With the price of Rp. 2.949 million, what you can on the Xperia L it's been relatively better than other smartphones with similar price levels, such as the Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, HTC Desire X and LG Optimus L9, especially in terms of performance and quality of the camera and music player. Build quality and materials are good too cheesy and not memorable.
excess
- satisfactory performance
- The music player has a sound output and quality features
- Micro SD slot
- removable battery
- Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
- The size is a bit large for a smartphone with a screen size medium
- The rear casing is dirty (for white color)
- No Bravia Engine
