So Sony has finally started to manufacture main stream Dual Core smart phones and it’s first two models Xperia U and Xperia Sola are now readily available here in India. Xperia Sola seems to be decent buy at Rs. 19,999 as it contains most of the features and is powered by a 1 GHz Dual Core processor. On the other hand Xperia U, a cheaper alternative Sola lacks some serious features which make it a stupid buy as compared to Sola. Here are some of the features which are lacking in Xperia U:
- No micro SD card slot- Well this will be a negligible feature if inbuilt phone memory is at least 8 GB but it is not. At 4 GB internal memory, it is quite less as compared to Xperia Sola.
- No HDMI port
No dedicated GPU- It is still not confirmed that whether Xperia U contains a dedicated GPU or not but preliminary results reports that it does not contain a dedicated GPU.- 512 MB RAM is unsuitable for upcoming ICS upgrade.
- Old version of Bluetooth (2.1)
Presently Xperia U is retailing at Rs. 16,499.
Update
As per the latest test performed by actual owners of Xperia U, it has been confirmed that Xperia U does have “Single Core” Mali 400 GPU and due to this it can play high end games too. But you should also keep in mind that this Mali 400 is different from the Mali 400 found in Galaxy S2 in terms of the number of cores. Mali 400 GPU in S2 have 2 cores. There is even a quad core Mali 400 chip.
Contributor Rajiv Gupta of Eternal Questions