Sony xperia U accessories and specifications

The Xperia U is technically a mid-range offering but unlike most phones in its price range, the phone runs on a dual-core processor. But does it actually offer better performance? Let’s find out. The design of the Xperia U is very similar to the Xperia S. In fact, the entire new Xperia family has the same block-like design. It looks simple and elegant without being bland or boring.On the front the Xperia U has the 3.5-inch display in the middle with the earpiece, front camera, notification LED and sensors at the top and the main control keys below. Just like with the Xperia S, the Xperia U has three dots below the display with the icons for each of these placed within a glass strip below them. Unlike the Xperia S, however, the Xperia U controls are a bit easier to use.

Hardware and software.

The Sony Xperia U runs on the Sony-Ericsson U8500 . It includes a 1GHz dual-core Cortex A9 CPU, Mali-400 MP GPU and 512MB of RAM. As for storage space, there is just 4GB of internal memory with no expansion slot. This is where we come across the biggest problem with thisXperia phone. The phone has a separate 2GB for apps but even that runs out pretty quickly when you put some high quality games on the phone and then you can’t even move them to the main storage as even that is likely to be full. During the course of our review we had to keep adding and removing content to make              

The phone runs on Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread in a day and age where Google has announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Although Android 4.0 support is announced it would take some time and even after that it would 

still be behind the latest version of Android. We are still baffled as to why Sony would be releasing phones with Android 2.3 in the middle of 2012 when other companies are releasing Android 4.0 devices.

Battery life