Sony Xperia J UK SIM Free Smartphone - Black

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Sony Xperia J UK SIM Free Smartphone - Black

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Sony XPERIA J Android Phone GSM UMTS 3G 4 GB 4 TFT black 12682314 Phones Mobile Phones

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, 5 Jan 2013

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Trina - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony Xperia J UK SIM Free Smartphone - Black (Electronics)

Great phone, no fuss, came on time, best price I had seen on the Internet! Would definitely recommend, no doubt.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars amaaaaaazing, 4 Jan 2013

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Cute Kittens - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony Xperia J UK SIM Free Smartphone - Black (Electronics)

I love this phone :-) I like the size and inside camera. Very easy to use and type with. I don't see why everyone is saying it lags, mine is fine!!!!

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a bad phone, 29 Dec 2012

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thejr0450 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony Xperia J UK SIM Free Smartphone - Black (Electronics)

Having recently recieved this phone I am quite happy with what I have got so far
For the price, the screen is very good as it is colorful, bright and vibrant. For me the highlight if the phone is definately the music player; it has sony's walkman and Xloud technology to make the music very clear to listen to even at high volumes. No distortion is heard when you turn the volume up.

However the big set back is the low amount of ram onboard making it laggy at times. Yes it has a front facing camera for video calls but dont be fooled so easily; skype is very bad. I tried skyping my friend and it was very slow and ended up almost crashing the phone. You also have to be in bright daylight to use it as it is too dark indoors. So don't get the phone because of its front facing camera

The rear 5mp camera is ok for the odd shot but anyone who wants a good quality camera should stay away from it. Pictures come out grainy and the more you zoom in the worse the picture gets as they become unclear. However should you want to take a quick picture it is good but don't expect to capture those truly memerobale moments on this device.

Overall I think it is a decent phone for it's cheap price tag offering a good screen size and a sleek design that looks like a high end phone. It should not be used by gamers or photographers but for anyone looking for a decent phone that can play most games without a problem or surf the web occasionaly and text your friends it is the right phone for you.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent phone, with a few tweaks..., 17 Dec 2012

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Sweetlilac - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sony Xperia J UK SIM Free Smartphone - Black (Electronics)

I have now had this phone for 2 months on contract.

I got it silly cheap on voda, less than 20 notes a month, so i am not that bothered about the price if im honest.

I upgraded from a blackberry bold and let me tell you, wow what a difference.

The 1st month i had it, i absolutely hated it. I still hate texting on it, in fact i have found i despise touch screens entirely and i miss my qwerty keyboard, but that is a personal preference, nothing to do with the phone.

So then, response times.

Turning on the phone, pain in the neck, you press and hold the power button until it vibrates and then it takes 30 seconds to load. I don't know why i find this frustrating but i do.

The screen for me also is unresponsive at times, i have found the trick to it when it wont do anything is to just press the power button to hibernate the screen for 30 seconds and then turn it back on. Job done. No problems at all.

Music, some people have complained that their music isn't loud enough and for that reason alone have given the phone 1 star. Ridiculous.

There is a trick to making it louder but the problem isn't with the phone but with the headphones which are absolutely awful. They are stiff, not comfortable and tend to sit outside of the ear, even though they are supposed to be in ear headphones.

I replaced my headphones with some ones I had bought to go with my iPod and they work perfectly. They are not a hands free headset though so you need to take them out of your ears to answer calls, but personally i don't mind doing that as I detest the spaciness of hands free voice calls. The headphones will play a noise though when you get an email text or phone call and the music automatically cuts off when the phone is ringing allowing you time to take out the headphones and answer it. When finished plus headset back in and music will play from where you left it.

If anyone finds a decent hands free set though, please leave a comment on the bottom of this review.

Anwyay I am just using my cheap ones in pink, Philips SHE3570PK/10 In-Ear Headphones - Pink they are brilliant, loud as you like and with a few alterations will in fact blast your eardrums out.

You can also get them in:

Green: Philips SHE3570GN/10 In-Ear Headphones - Green
White: Philips SHE3570WT/10 In-Ear Headphones - White
Black: Philips SHE3570BK/10 In-Ear Headphones - Black
Blue: Philips SHE3570BL/10 In-Ear Headphones - Blue

When you play your music through the Walkman app, press the right hand side menu button on the phone (4 straight lines) then select sound enhancements, then you can change the equaliser to whatever you want, personally I have mine on heavy. Before you go back though, if you tap the equaliser name on the top left of the screen and choose more, you go to a new screen, make sure that xLoud is ticked, then select headphone surround and you can put it on one of 3 settings, studio, club and concert hall. For my personal tastes I chose studio, but mess around with all 3 and choose which one you prefer.

Job done, loud as you like music with just a few seconds to change things

The camera in my opinion is absolutely rubbish, I have a dslr, and a point and shoot camera and try as I might, I cannot get superior image quality from this phone, they are ok now with a few tips and tricks but luckily I did not want the phone for the camera. If however you just want it for some brief snapshots for Facebook etc it should be ok.

Tips, always keep the scene on landscape, I don't know why but that seems to give the best image. In addition, the flash is ridiculously bright so do not use it unless you have too, as it will wash out all of your pics. I always have mine on off.
Now for focusing I have found that having it on single auto focus is the best and having it on auto for the white balance is also better.

If you press the menu ( 4 straight lines) button whilst in camera mode, there are 9 options, scroll the screen to the right and you get 3 more. If you press the capture method button and then select on screen button, that's the best way to get good results.

Also whilst you are there, press the data storage icon and change the storage to sd card because the app will batter your internal storage and you will have to keep deleting pics.

Best trick then whilst lining up a shot is to point the camera as you do, and then keep your finger on the camera icon button to take the picture, keep it pressed down until the shot is in focus and only then release your finger. If you do it without doing that all of your pictures will be blurry. There is also a little inbuilt trick to know when it is in focus too because once you have held it down long enough, the little square in the middle of the screen will go green to tell you when to release your finger.

Easy as pie right !!!

Ooo one more thing about the camera, just like the new spanky iPhone 5, it will take panorama pictures. Easy to switch over as well, whilst in camera mode, press the top right hand side icon (whilst the phone is upright) and you can select, normal, front camera, or sweep panorama. The results are brilliant, I will upload the one I took so that you can see the effects.

The phone comes with 50gb of free storage from The box but you need to download the free app to your phone to activate it. This expires on 31st December 2012, so if you haven't got it yet, I would recommend getting it, if just for your pictures and music.

The phone has gorilla glass which is super tough, but I very highly recommend you put on the free screen cover that comes with it because it is amazing at how quickly screens become damaged. Be patient though, because it takes some practice and I had air bubbles in mine the 1st time I tried it, but doing my partners, I did it perfectly.

One little thing for users of twitter, the hashtag. I nearly threw my phone up the wall trying to find this so I will share it with you. When you are typing a tweet and go to locate the hashtag and cant find it, it is there , press the 12!? Button on the bottom left of the keyboard and then the numbers and a few icons appear, but no hashtag, however if you look to the bottom left, just above the keyboard button you will see a button that says 1/2. Press it and woohoo hashtag plus the pound sign, brackets etc. It took me almost a week to figure that out, I had to ask someone on a forum how to do it grrrr.

The internet, absolutely fine for me, I have no problems with it at all, it is very limited in vertical mode though but the minute you flip it to horizontal, no issues at all.
I find copying and pasting text a pain though, you have to press and hold down the screen, then 2 little blue arrows appear, you change them to accommodate the txt and then go to the top of the screen and press the double page strangely and it copies.

Doesn't tell you it has copied though and then you can go onto somewhere else and press down on a blank page and keep your finger held down until the paste button appears and then press it. Absolutely ridiculous and one feature I would like to change.

Word to the wise, you cannot do this in Facebook for some reason, it will not allow you to copy text off the page no idea why..

Apps - Without doubt the best app on this phone is Google Maps. It's the full version which isn't available on other platforms, haha iPhone .

Plus it has free voice navigation, woooo no satnav needed. Bonus.

It has Navigation (Free, turn-by-turn GPS system), 3D Maps , Offline reliability ,Latitude ,App Store ,Traffic ,Driving directions, Layers. Love it, and I would happily pay for it.

Tune in Radio - The 2nd most used app on my phone. It's a digital radio app that can pick up any radio station in the world. My partner was super happy with this one because he is originally from Liverpool and can now sit and listen to Pete price at 10pm.
We have also sat and listened to college football, Nashville country radio stations, ryan seacrest on kissfm. Its amazing the radio stations you can find.

Angry Birds - boy is this addictive, I personally have Angry Birds Star Wars, Space, Seasons, Rio and the Original. Drives my partner nuts because I am always on it, his choice of tv bores me so I need something to occupy myself.

Jewels Star is good as well, a cheap version of bejewelled.

Other apps that are worth the download are 3D bowling, Bad Piggies and shot bubbles.

I am sure that there are many other things that you need to know but I will let you discover them for myself.

I think it is very unfair to compare this to the iPhone 5 or Samsung galaxy s3 which I had and hated btw and much prefer this one.

A worthy choice for the budget conscious and you can get some really great deals atm all for less than 20 quid.

Winner !!!

Oh one added little extra, the case for the Samsung Galaxy S3 fits this phone perfectly and I have bought several from the same seller.
He has them in different colours, I have 4 so far, cheap as chips and worth every penny, the Yellow is my favourite.

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Up to you !!

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2.0 out of 5 stars I'm not impressed, 13 Dec 2012

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Leah Knight "l.knight" (Manchester, Engaland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony Xperia J UK SIM Free Smartphone - Black (Electronics)

I was so excited about upgrading from my htc desire to the sony xperia j. I have owned two sony phones in the past and have always been pleased with them, So when I received the xperia j I was happy until I switched the phone on. I didn't like that the on/off button was at the side it felt arkward and tricky. I m not bothered about pictures and camera qaulity even though the pictures and some videos were nice.

My biggest issue is sound I love music so much and I can never leave the house without my phone with all my fav songs. Since sony prides itself with being a walkman phone I was expecting the sound to be brilliant. But as soon as I put my headphones in it was low. I have changed the sound enhancements on the phone to custom which slightly improved the volume but it was still not as loud as I would have liked. Even when I hooked the phone up to my hi fi system and turned up to the highest volume it was still to low.

Also with this phone I feel like I have downgraded more than upgraded, it feels like everything on this phone is slow, when I want to skip a song it's like it takes a few seconds for the next track to start.

This phone feels more manual then automatic. I had to enter all my contacts in manually where as my htc found and stored my contacts automatically.
When I first put my SD card into the phone it took over ten minutes for before all my songs,pics and Video were availiable for me to view.

There are other faults with this phone but I can't be botherd getting into it. I would avoid getting this phone unless you were buying it for a teenager or for someone who is not fussed about what features the phone has.

I do like the phone design looks very modern but I'm not at all happy with its functions.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars A honest advise!, 8 Dec 2012

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Patrick - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony Xperia J UK SIM Free Smartphone - Black (Electronics)

I would not recomand it!

Sony did a good job on this but it is not enough to be used on day to day basis.

Problems:

1- Touchscreen is not responding to anything somtimes.
2- The touch quality is not good so texting is a challenge.(aso playing game, touchsensing is much superior on any other samsung phone).
3-It does have a bit of lag.
4- The home button is too small to stiff and too further apart so it makes life difficult.

Good points:

1-Good built quality and good screen.
2- Good quality sound.
3- Holds a good charge.
4- Good price.

Sony, we expect more!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Good and cheap phone, 25 Nov 2012

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Zanis - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony Xperia J UK SIM Free Smartphone - Black (Electronics)

Recently get this nice phone. It's stylish,slim and great build phone. I was looking for a cheap smartphone on Android for calls,messages and wifi.

Pros: (just in my opinion)
+Great quality screen
+Gorilla Glass
+Size and weight
+Battery
+Good sound quality (it's loud enough for me)
+Price

Cons:
-Not fastest CPU and RAM (just 1Ghz)
-Does not support 720p videos even with another player from GooglePlay (it plays 480p clips-no big difference between 720p)
-Sometimes it's laggy (thanks to slow CPU)

Would not reccomend this phone for them who are looking for a powerful phone for HD games,HD videos and many many multiple tasks. This one is basic smartphone for a people who wants to get big and quality screen,for a good sound and cheap price. It could be your best first Android phone for a basic tasks!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Got this for the wife and she loves it., 23 Nov 2012

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N. Artingstall "n tinstall" (paignton) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sony Xperia J UK SIM Free Smartphone - Black (Electronics)

Compared to I phones and top end htc or Sony etc this cannot compare. But for a cheaper smartphone with nice size screen and functionality it's great. Looks the business and 1ghz processor seems quite nippy to me. No problems here and camera seems decent enough for our general use. Anyway this will be mainly used as a phone not a plaything. If you can accept the slight compromises of a cheaper smartphone I don't think you will be in any way disappointed

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2.0 out of 5 stars I expect more from Sony.., 18 Nov 2012

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Ihab (Strathaven, Lanarkshire) - See all my reviews

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The phone is really stylish and nice to look at and hold, but start using it and you change your mind. The screen is not brilliant, lacks smoothness and feels as if it is easily scratchable, but no scratchs so far. it is a good size though and things look good on it. The real problem is certain lack of responsiveness and stuttering during operation. It certainly can use a more powerful CPU or more RAM or both. I had a much lower spec HTC explorer with only 600 Mhz CPU and much less RAM, but it was running much more smoothly on Android 3.6 (I think it's gingerbread). I thought that this one with 1Ghz processor and 512Mb RAM would be much better, but it's running android Ice Cream Sandwich v4.0.4 which is just barely able to cope with.

The front cam, the micro SD slot and normal size SIM slot are all bonuses. I am keeping it as my son is happy with it, but can't recommend it really.

Not sure whether future upgrade to Jelly Bean is on the cards and if it would improve responsiveness, I guess not. If anything, newer OSs are usually more, not less, demanding on the hardware.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good deal, 18 Nov 2012

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Dimitris Siacholevas - See all my reviews

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Very good android smartphone from sony which is really recommended!great price for all those goods that this phone can provide!!! Very recommended!

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