Battery life is considered OK, light usage of calls, sms, browsing and facebook-ing generally will allow almost 2 days usage period. So even if you abuse it more, I think it shouldn’t be a problem for it to last for a day. But one weird thing that I notice is the battery percentage indicator is rather inaccurate. For example, at the moment it shows 70+% of battery, after you put it to sleep for awhile and come back to the phone later, it may shows 80% this time around. The bundle earphone/hands-free is really low quality in terms of make. Last time around Sony has bundled a great earphone for the Xperia Ray, not sure why they can’t do the same here this time. Well, anyway the earphone still manages to do what it should do, but the sound quality is really average.
One particular annoying problem with this phone is on the wifi reception. Since Xperia Ray, the wifi reception of Sony’s phone has always been below average. Imagine I’m sitting in front of the fiber broadband router, and I’m only getting 2 out of 3 bars of signal. Sony really has to work hard to improve their wifi connectivity. I have also found some software glitches from time to time, like unable to connect to LTE, or music play through the walkman app will pause for no reason by itself. Well, all these glitches can be solved by a simple restart of phone, but it sure hinders the user experience. So, in order to get a “smoother” experience all day, restart your phone daily.
Google Now can be access by holding the home button down. This is one of the selling feature for Jellybean software, but coming from Ice Cream Sandwich & iOS 6, I’m pretty much new to this new feature Google introduced us. I’m still exploring what can actually be done with it. For the moment, I’m just running the weather card and some transit info on it. On a side note, if you are looking for similar spec mid range phone out there, you may take a look at Lumia 820 if you are willing to hop into WP8’s garden. For the Android side, Samsung Galaxy S4 mini and the rumored HTC One mini can be in your shopping list as well.
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