Arc S delivers a better snap in low light and normal light conditions. Just see it yourself.
Xperia arc S Samples Xperia S Samples
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Arc S delivers a better snap in low light and normal light conditions. Just see it yourself.
Xperia arc S Samples Xperia S Samples
Source: Xperiablog
It is the first day of february and I thought of reminding you all about the major event of this month. It’s the MWC 2012 which is to commence from 27 February 2012 in Barcelona. So, what to expect from Sony? New Xperias? Yes, it’s evident from this invitation letter from Sony Ericsson:
“Find out what’s new and what’s next! Join us at our Press Conference at Mobile World Congress for the latest news on our Xperia smartphone portfolio and strategy.”
There are rumours about some phones that would be announced by Sony. There are no official statements regarding any of those phones but we get a lot of details in the form of leaked pictures and benchmark results. We have reported them here and to them who had no time to look into it, I’d like to gather everything here.
Among the rumored phones, the most desirable and eye catching one is the LT22i ‘Nypon’ (Xperia P). It’s one among the phones expected to be announced in the event.
LT22i ‘Nypon’ Specsheet:
Another interesting phone is the MT27i ‘Pepper’.
MT27i ‘Pepper’ Specsheet:
Yet another one with some decent configuration and is highly expected to be announced in the event is the ST25i ‘Kumquat’. (Xperia U)
ST25i ‘Kumquat’ Specsheet:
Also, we have the details of a mid range phone which could be possibly the successor of Xperia X8; that is the ST21i ‘Tapioca’.
ST21i ‘Tapioca’ Specsheet:
And then we have a list of another 6 phones with their price and expected launch dates, but we know little about their hardware or software. We don’t have any pictures either.
Also, there were talks about LT28at/LT28i; the ‘at’ version for US and ‘i’ for the rest of the world. Sadly there is no mentioning of this phone in the price list and hence concluded that it doesn’t exist or it’s already released as the Xperia ion (for the US) and Xperia S (Worldwide).
For now these are all rumors and what is real is the event itself and the fact that Sony is a part of it. On the other hand there are no reasons why you shouldn’t believe the existence of these phones. Sadly, you have to wait 25 days more to get to a conclusion.
Most of us don’t bother this. Once the phones are launched, we analyse and judge it. But for the real hardcore Sony Ericsson fans out there, the wait is painful, especially when they loose their sleep on “Will that be a dual core…?” or “Will it be affordable?” or “Will it have a nice cam” and so on!
Leaked Pictures of Pepper, Kumquat and Nypon:
Since the official 2.3.3 update for the X10 is out we can make a fair compare between the new and old flagship devices from Sony Ericsson.Day to day use:
After playing with the X10 a bit I have to say it isn’t smooth. Swiping between the screens has little lags which comes due its 32fps cap. What doesn’t make it better is that it doesn’t fully go up to the 32fps on 2.3.3 because on 2.1 it was smoother.
So in the point of smoothness the X10 loses against the Arc. The Arc scrolls smooth trough the screens, the app drawer and everything else. That’s because it is uncapped. It goes up to 60fps like all other uncapped devices.
The next point is opening apps:
Here the both competitors are both very good. They open the apps really fast, but again the Arc is faster, just a little but you notice it.
The only thing the X10 is faster is on opening the contacts and the messaging app, that’s because the X10 is clean, no contacts or texts on it. Just 5-8 apps.
Now we come to browsing:
And again both devices are very close. In loading pages they are both fast, but the Arc is a little bit faster. But pinch to zoom isn’t smooth on the X10 compared to the Arc, that may be because the X10 has buggy Dualtouch and the Arc has real Multitouch.
Both devices handle pages with flash quite well. I’d say it’s a tie here.
Last point is youtube, tested with the youtube app that comes shipped with them.
Both open the videos fast, but on the Arc it’s definitly faster. I’d say it’s a second faster, it was always noticeable.
Both devices were connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
Benchmarks:
Linpack:
Xperia Arc: 38.90mflops
Xperia X10: 36.322mflops
Quadrant:
Xperia Arc: 1683 (someone got 1790 points, also on stock ROM)
Xperia X10: 1322
Speedtest.net:
Xperia Arc: Ping: 87ms, Download 8.5Mbps, Upload 0.98Mbps
XPERIA X10: Ping 41ms, Dowload 7.2Mbps, Upload 0.98Mbps
These tests are from today. Xperia Arc scored a ping of 55ms and downlod of 12.3Mbps a while ago. My Wi-Fi seems a bit slow today.
But anyway, I’d say the Arc has faster Wi-Fi
Camera:
A lot of people want to know if the Exmor R sensor of the Arc makes a difference compared to the X10.
Here are some pics made at dark conditions:
X10:
Arc:
X10:
Arc:
I used auto mode on both devices to make the pics. As you can see the Exmor R sensor makes definitely a difference. So the Xperia Arc wins here, too.
We should keep in mind that the comparison was made right after the X10 got updated. So it’s totally clean (no texts, no syncing) and no apps are running and I only installed 5-8 apps for testing on it. That’s because it’s my spare phone.
The Arc is my daily phone and I have around 95 apps on it, a lot of texts, syncs emails etc, Facebook is on and push activated. Also it was up for 43 hours when I did the test.
So it’s a good achievement from the Arc. Clean and fresh restarted phones are faster than phones that run for a while and are loaded with apps.
As expected the Xperia Arc wins this dogfight but the XPERIA X10 isn’t bad, too. It’s a year older and you notice that.
After some short random queries for Xperia Arc I have managed to find a bloke on Youtube who posted the following videos regarding the Xperia Arc: Video Sample at 720p, Angry Birds on Xperia Arc and a brief comparison between The Arc, HTC Desire, Xperia X10 and HTC HD7.
Enjoy the videos on our blog:
Via: xblog.gr
Razvan,

I thought it would be fun to do a little comparison between the old Idou render and the Satio one. Besides the obvious wallpaper change, can you spot other differences? More than 5 even? Eleven in total, kids.
PS. The song playing is also different, yes.
Here’s a quick video showing the main differences between a proper xenon flash on the C901 and the rather crappy LED flash on the C903 – and it of course also shows how superior the C901 is when it comes to image quality. Enjoy!

I had originally promised you a camera comparison between the Sony Ericsson C905 and the Nikon D80, but I didn’t have time to do this comparison back then. Now, we’re back with a large comparison between the C905 and the Nikon D90 (don’t have the D80 with me currently, so this is the other choice).
About this duel
All the samples shot with the C905 were shot with automatic settings and flash disabled, unless needed. All the samples were shot in high quality JPEG mode. The Nikon D90 was set to aperture priority mode (f/3.8), with flash disabled. All the samples were shot in RAW (uncompressed file format), and converted to TIFF with Adobe Lightroom 2.2 using default conversion settings.
It’s important that you’re aware of the fact that you can completely change how the pictures look when you shoot in RAW format. If they’re too dark, you can simply knock up the exposure in the post-processing without affecting the quality of the picture. This is not possible with pictures shot in JPEG format, which means the C905 is suffering from a severe disadvantage even before we kick off the comparison.
It’s also rather important to point out that there’s no such thing as a perfect RAW converter, and that they’ll all convert the RAW images differently. Most of the unprocessed RAW images, in my opinion, are better than the converted ones, but like I said earlier on, you can always change the look of RAW images.
I will briefly comment on each set of samples, and pick a definitive winner in the end of this post. All the following samples are 100 percent crops of the original pictures. The JPEGs are unprocessed and the RAW images have been converted, as explained earlier on. To cut down on the bandwidth, I’ve decided not to include the full resolution samples. (more…)
I promised that we’d post a duel between Sony Ericsson’s C902 and C905 as well as a Nikon digital SLR camera, which ended up being the ageing 10-megapixel Nikon D80. In the photos there is a significant difference in terms of the size of the elements from the C905 and D80’s photos and the photos produced by the C902. This is caused due to the lower camera resolution on the C902. There’s hardly any visible difference between the C905 and D80 as the C905 shoots in 3:4 format and the D80 shoots in 2:3 format.
The following pictures are 100 percent crops that are straight out of the cameras. All cameras were set to auto, and left to decide everything themselves. We’ll provide full size samples in the upcoming full comparison, but the crops should do for now.

Thought I’d just post a few photos of the G700 and G900 compared to each other, and just for the fun of it, add a W960 in on one of the photos, to show you how small these really are. Keep in mind that W960 was actually quite an improvement over other UIQ phones. As you can see, the G’s are quite alike, with only minor hardware differences.



By request, I’ve snapped a few comparing photos of the Sony Ericsson P1 & W960. Both phones are built on a 99 % equal hardware basis and the software is just about equal as well. Overall, I have to say that the P1 feels extremely well built and puts the W960 to shame, even though W960 is not bad at all!
Enjoy the photos
Stay tuned for my review of the P1 (and I’m sorry about the lousy photo quality).