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Xa Ultra cavalry. Sony Xperia Xa Ultra: big, stylish, recognizable. Spectacular design and attractive appearance

(Prices on review day review).

Main characteristics Sony Xperia. Xa Ultra.

Screen	S-IPS, 6 ", 1080x1920, Multitach 10 Touch, Mobile Bravia Engine 2
Iron	2 GHz, MediaTek Helio P10 (MT6755), 64-bit, 8 cores Cortex-A53, Mali-T860 MP2
Memory	RAM 3 GB, ROM 16 GB, Micro-SD up to 200 GB
Mobile Internet	LTE CAT.4 150/50 Mbps HSDPA 42.2 Mbit / s, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps Edge.
Mobile networks	LTE BANDS 1-3,5,7,8,20 UMTS 850, 900, 1900, 2100 GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900
Battery	Li-Ion, 2700 mA · h, fast charge
Dimensions	164 x 79 x 8.4 mm
Weight	202 g
Camera	21.5 Mp, 1 / 2.4 ", F / 2.2, Flash, Autofocus, Sony Exmor RS IMX-230, Hybrid AF Frontal: 16 MP, 1 / 2.6, F / 2.0, Flash, Autofocus, Sony Exmor RS IMX-234, Optical Stabilization
Navigation	GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS
OS.	Android 6.0 Marshmallow

Powerful phablet with a super-armed front camera. What, and in originality, Sony will not refuse. Many you know front cameras with autofocus, flash and optical stabilization?

Although what is the originality here? Rather, competent follows fashion. People love to be photographed against the background of attractions. Previously, to get a portrait of myself a loved on the background of the Trevi Fountain had to call someone to help. Now - Help yourself - decent fronts fully allow to take pictures that are not ashamed to put in instagram tel.

Frankly weak place one is the battery. What is really offended. Once selfie-homework means traveling. Time - it means a large battery is vital. But no, break. So external batteries - our everything.

On trifles - no finger sensors. I would like more flash memory. Slippery.

Otherwise, everything is chic. Excellent appearance with thin frames. Bright high-quality screen. Iron - well, not the flagship, but I absolutely do not understand why there may be more productivity. For reading books, watching video, walking on Sony Xperia XA Ultra sites is very good. Well, for the manufacture of selfie in industrial quantities, of course, too.

Equipment

Modestly. Charger, micro USB cable, slightly paper.

Appearance

Weight	202 g
The size	164 x 79 x 8.4 mm
Protection	Not

Bandura, of course. Like all other smartphones with the screen of the same diagonal. Want six inches - accept weight and sizes.

Three chassis color options - white, black, gold.

A distinctive feature is a super-thin frames on the sides of the screen, which made it possible to make a smartphone quite narrow. Cheap smartphones with a similar diagonal usually about millimeters for five wider. Anyway, of course, it is wide ... But for the biblism you have to pay, you can not get anywhere.

Metal bezel, back cover plastic. Plastic is very nice, matte. Apparently, quite durable. Although I did not spend stress tests and did not wear ultra with the keys in one pocket.

Corpus untenteible. Cards are put in a special tray, which is stuffed in the gap on the left edge. Tray for human cards, no or or. Two SIM cards (alas, Nano-SIM) and one memory card without problems are placed simultaneously.

Special thanks for the sticker on the back cover, which intelligibly explains which side and where to shove the card. Conveniently.

Boring details

Above the screen is a large-wagon chamber eye. Close frontal flash. On the other hand, the logo is sensors and LEDs. Over the logo - speaker, wherever without it.

There is nothing under the screen, and the Android buttons are placed.

Rear - camera with flash (alas, in the corner). And the label pointing where the NFC is here.

From above - audio output 3.5 mm and microphone for noise reduction.

Bottom - microphone, micro-usb, speaker. Speaker, like the camera, is not too successful. Small. And sometimes, when you hold the smartphone horizontally, completely cover it with your finger.

On the right edge of the button. Volume swing, traditional for Sony Round Enable Button. Plus a separate button for the camera.

On the left - the tray for cards hiding for the huge size of the plug.

Inside (iron)

Antutu.	46073 (v5.7.1)
Antutu.	50210 (v6.2.1)
Chipset	MediaTek Helio P10 MT6755
Nuclei	8 x Cortex-A53, 2 GHz
GPU.	MALI-T860 MP2
RAM (free)	3 GB (1.3 GB)
ROM (free)	16 GB (7 GB)
Micro-SD.	Up to 200 GB

I do not have any complaints about the speed of the smartphone. The processor is fast. Yes, and the RAM, put your hand on the heart of the wallet, more than enough. To whom and why in smartphones are needed 4-6 GB random access memory - For me, the mystery.

But Flash memory could be more. The results of the vital activity of the camera, fortunately, are safely written and on the memory card. And with the software, this number does not pass. Thick toys are stubborn exclusively in internal memory. Taking into account the fact that the smartphone is very good, you will agree, it's a little offensive.

Well, traditional for android ban " third-party applications"To write on the memory card outside the catalog all the catalog will not go anywhere. And at the same time" native " file Manager There is no smartphone. So everything you decide to record on the memory card, write from the computer.

Sensors. Gyro, on Mount Fans Pokemon Go, no. Only a compass, accelerometer, illumination and approximation.

Communication with the outside world

All that is - everything works as it should and without problems. Hurray, comrades. As usual, in this section Review has nothing to write.

Screen

The screen is bright, with excellent oleophobic coating and sufficient resolution. What else is needed for complete happiness? I just would not give up from the possibility of working in gloves. Alas, she is not.

Light 2.5D rounding to the edges.

Random clicks at the expense of very subtle indents on the edges sometimes happen, but rarely. When Samsung Galaxy S6 EDGE was tested, I remember, suffered greatly from such random clicks. There was no such thing here.

What covered the screen is unknown. Obviously, if there was a glasses of Gorilla Glass, they would say about it. But the protective coating is clearly there, the screen does not scratch from the gazes.

Operating system and other software

Android from fresh - 6.0 Marshmallow. Plus, the corporate shell plus, of course, a variety of branded software, which, as usual, no one ever uses.

Little beta - Facebook client and SwiftKey keyboard are preset. And it is impossible to delete them.

Battery

Battery capacity for such dimensions, and even taking into account not the coldest processor is quite modest, 2700 mAh. Results of battery tests, expected, so-so. 106% of the reference.

In general, with rechargeable tests it turned out strange. After the first measurements, I felt that the results somehow ... not very. Well, not very - so not very. What to do. Looked. It seems that no predatory processes refractoring the battery.

He graduated from a series of tests, rape data to his script, he calculated everything, I grabbed my head. 47% of the Standalone! Trash and avgar! Eight hours of music, less than five hours of screen without load, etc. So it does not happen! Marriage?

No, not marriage. I didn't find the culprit. But after resetting to the factory settings, everything is magically as needed. 106% - the result, of course, is not magical. But quite fit into my ideas about what and how in this world should be.

Sony Xperia Xa Ultra as a flashlight

As a flashlight, the main outbreak of the tuxlovat, and the beam is wide. You can find a cat in the room, but to light yourself in the darkness way to a bright future problematic.

Frontal flash in permanent luminescence mode slightly fascinating main (30 against 40 lux with half meters).

Sony Xperia Xa Ultra as photo and video camera

Both cameras with autofocots and an outbreak, frontal - also with optical stabilization.

The quality of the pictures from the front camera places, of course, is very impressive (although the eyes often work well, completely crazy). So if you do not think your life without daily perpetuation of myself a loved one and at the same time not acceptance of the use of monopods, then, of course,

The problem is solved

Advantages: 1) Big, but not too a bulky display, which madly happy with juicy colors, transfers the range of colors absolutely exactly, does not lose brightness during inclons. Despite the fact that the diagonal is 6 inches, it does not cause inconvenience to use. There is an excellent feature to resize the display. It is enough to turn it out or deploy it to the desired one. Already protected by glass. 2) Shouter, tasks perform without lags. Even the most severe applications are loaded with a bullet. Android version 6.0. 3) Cameras are a real miracle. As a photographer girl say that for mobile phone it's hardly the best way. Frontalka per 16mm and rear 21.5p perfectly coped with their tasks. Special thanks to Sony for making outbreaks both in front and rear. I pleased that you can no longer bother with the timer, it is worth raising your hand - the phone itself starts counting. You only have to take the desired pose. Beautiful thing for selfie. There are many functions for the photo, the inexperienced user needs to sit and figure out. But how much later indescribable emotions from the result! Regarding the video a very controversial question. Depending on the conditions for the shooting, quality changes. There is optical stabilization that goes into a certain plus device. But the shooting in the amount of 1080 leaves much to be desired. As a video camera, it is not suitable for the same video blogging, but remove how you relax with friends on the lake, it is quite possible. The tracking focus is one of the coolest chips inherent in Sony. 4) the amount of memory is enough more than. This is 3GB RAM and 16GB of internal memory. Plus, you can insert the SD card size up to 200GB. I have enough of my 32GB. If you clean the garbage and cache with Clean Master, things are even better. 5) invented a cool thing: depending on the type of notification, the indicator on the top of the phone shines with different colors. Trifle, but nice. 6) Design pleases with practicality and fold. Nothing superfluous, only in fact. 7) Loud and clear sound. Heard even on the bottom of the bag. Disadvantages: 1) I, of course, understand that this question is worried about not one me, but it was not so difficult to insert a normal battery into the phone? In principle, my previous gadget HTC Desire 816 was kept as much as it was half a day of permanent use, but still for such a price and such a filling of 2700 m⋅ch is not enough. 2) I do not play games on the phone, but my friend exactly with the same device complains that some games do not pull some games on the ultra-settings. For me it does not matter, but it is very upset. 3) Not for everyone. Recently, the fashion went to "shovels". Not every girl will be pleased, while for men the most. 4) Too categorical colors: white, graphite black, more accurately some kind of styl not gray, and linom gold. For example, the first two are simple and typically, and the third is too clean. It is a pity that the color of Rose was not added, some blue and, let's say something neutral. Personally, I have 3 options, because I do not see practicality in white, and the blacks have already fed up. 5) do not waterproof like some others sony model. Comment: In general, I am a fan of HTC products. Was incredible s, different models Desire. Favorite was and remains desire 816. But when I wanted something fresh and climbed into the catalog to choose one of the latest models, I was wildly disappointed. It seems that HTC is driving along the inclined down, trying to meet the requirements of users. And then, on the advice of friends and acquaintances, I drew attention to phones Sony.. Comparing dozens of models, having hung something in common, looking at the reviews on YouTube, reading customer reviews, I was more and more convinced that in vain refused. All my technique is Sony: TVs, laptops, cameras, headphones, and so on. I stumbled upon Sony Xa Ultra I studied for hours than it differs from Z5 Premium, just X, from ordinary XA and so on. Believe me, Z3, Z5 and XA ULTRA is best models. M5 disappointed the percentage component of the marriage, but if it were not for this, I would have chose a very long time between them. XAU is worth their money. And he surprises very much where people have so much negative. The phone deserves estimates at least 4.5, but not as not 3.5. Even comparing with the iPhone 6+, this model wins that it will undoubtedly delight android lovers.

Sony Xperia X Ultra not only impressive with his design, but also has high performance. The quality of the camera is simply awesome, and a large amount of memory is available for data saving. Other features, such as moisture protection, dustproof, fast charge, etc., make this smartphone really worthy of its price. If you are looking forward to buying a stylish large-sized gadget with high performance, Sony Xperia X Ultra is the perfect choice.

Display and performance

Sony Xperia X Ultra comes with a 6.4-inch IPS LCD display, with a screen resolution of 1440 x 2880 pixels (503 dpi). The smartphone is available in two colors - gray and red. Inside a 6-nuclear processor 2x 1.8 GHz Cortex A72 and 4x 1.4 GHz Cortex A53 processor. It is helped by 4 GB of RAM and graphic processor Adreno 510. Waterproof smartphone, as well as with dust protection. Comes on Android 7.0 OS.

Camera and Memory

For photo and video filming, a 19-megapixel front camera and 13 megapixel self-seal are used. As for physical memory, Sony Xperia X ULTRA has a built-in memory of 64 GB, which can be increased to 256 GB using the MicroSD card.

Battery and connection

The phone works OT. lithium battery 3050 Mach with quick charging. The gadget offers a wide range of connectivity, such as one SIM card, Wi-Fi 802.11, B / G / N, mobile access point, Bluetooth V4.2, GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, NFC and MICROUSB 2.0.

According to the results of test tests, Sony Xperia Xa1 Ultra was not so bad, but in fact not so good. In general, a chic smartphone with a 6-inch screen has established itself as an ultra-unpretentious. Nevertheless, its cost at the time of tests is not particularly high, but appearance - Good.

Benefits

Chic design, tactile sensations give a sense of high quality
16 megapixel front camera
Big and solid display

disadvantages

Several insufficient performance
Fully enough charging process, despite the "fast" function
Only a satisfactory main camera

Price-quality ratio
Okay
Place in general ranking
85 out of 200.

Price / Quality ratio: 60
Productivity and management (35%): 79.1
Equipment (25%): 65.4
Battery (15%): 83.1
Display (15%): 91.3
Camera (10%): 71.5

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With a thickness of only 8 mm, elegant roundings of the body, isted from aluminum and painted in gold, pink, white and black colors, as well as having a memory card slot with a capacity of up to 256 GB and the front camera with a resolution of 16 MPIX, it has all the prerequisites for To become an ideal smartphone.

On the front you will not find any buttons, navigation - on the screen. Physical buttons to turn on / off and adjust the volume, as usual, on the side. Xa1 Ultra fingerprint scanner does not offer. With its 186 grams in his hand, the smartphone lies very funny.

... and inside not that "ultra"

While in terms of external views of Xperia Xa1 Ultra can really please, the technical characteristics do not look very impressive. Of course, the highest performance model from Snapdragon or MediaTek should not be installed in each smartphone as a processor, but the Eight-cordical CPU Helio P20 built here does not allow to rank this smartphone from Sony to the number of powerful. During test trials, despite the presence of 4 GB of RAM, the operating system is also a technician.

The MediaTek processor controls the Android 7 operating system is not always 100 percent

Not perfectly manifested itself in the course of tests and the duration of the battery charging process with a capacity of 2700 mAh. With more than three hours on the stopwatch, we remembered the good old days when people had not heard about the "fast charge" function. At the same time, the XA1 ULTRA is actually endowed with supported directly mediatek technology "Pump Express" for quick charging. The problem is this: In the delivery kit there is no appropriate power supply - you will need to purchase it separately.

But with stamina at the battery, everything is in order: during the test, this smartphone from Sony was able to hold out 9 hours of 35 minutes. For quick web surfing XA1 ULTRA is armed well enough: from mobile networks, thanks to the correspondence of the device CAT6 standards, data can be downloaded at a speed of up to 300 Mbps. Unfortunately, the fast WLAN module AC is not available on board. From NFC and Bluetooth 4.2 will not have to refuse. As an interface for connecting the power supply and cable transmitting data, serves one USB Type-C connector.

Camera only for ultra-self-self-fans

The front camera offers a resolution of 16 MPIX, the main chamber has a 23 megapixel matrix

As a rule, the company Sony Characteristics Cameras attached great importance. In particular, its XA1 ULTRA manufacturer gave the front camera, able to please selfie lovers of a truly high resolution - 16 MPIX. About the LED flash on the front side of the SONY engineers also did not forget - it is not bad. Specifications The main chamber on paper is also pretty decent: 23 megapixel matrix, an intelligent software stabilizer, called as "Steadyshot", fast autofocus module, etc.

In everyday operation, the camera is capable of issuing quite acceptable results, however, with a more attentive study in the walls of the CHIP testing laboratory, our experts carry the verdict "only satisfactory": noise levels 2.0 VN1 and a really large minimum distance to a removable object of 10 centimeters we do not very pleased. In addition, we lack the camera's ability to record videos in the resolution of 4k and the present, optical image stabilizer. However, in general, the camera is not bad here.

Alternative: Huawei Mate 10 Lite

During test tests, it showed itself much better than XPERIA XA1 Ultra. With a 5,9-inch diagonal of the display here only minimally less, but offers more a high resolution - 2160x1080 pixels. The appearance, like the smartphone from Sony, is very good, and performance during tests turned out to be significantly higher. The 16 megapixel camera showed itself a little worse. For the price of smartphones from each other differ not very much.

Sony Xperia XA1 Ultra testing results

Characteristics and test results Sony Xperia Xa1 Ultra

Price-quality ratio	60
OS when testing	Android 7.0
Actual OS.	Android 7.
Is the OS update planned	Android 8.
App store
Weight	186
Length x Width	165 x 80 mm;
Thickness	8.0 mm;
Expert evaluation of design	very good
Expert estimate of speed	OK
Download speed: PDF 800 KB by WLAN	3.6 C.
Download speed: Home chip.de by WLAN	0.4 C.
Download speed: CHIP.DE Test Table by WLAN	12.0 S.
Sound quality (loud connection)	OK
CPU	MediaTek Helio P20.
Processor architecture
Frequency CPU.	2.300 MHz
Number of cpu nuclei	4+4
RAM volume	4.0 GB
Battery: Capacity	2.700 mA · h
Battery: Extra Removed	-
Battery: Surf time	9:35 h: min
Battery: Charging Time	2:57 h: min
Function fast charging	Yes
Zoom and fast charging cable in a community
Battery: Discharge Time / Charging Time	3,2
Function wireless charging	-
WLAN	802.11 N.
Voice Over LTE.
LTE: Frequency	800, 1.800, 2.600 MHz
LTE: Cat. four	up to 150 Mbps
LTE: Cat. 6.	up to 300 Mbps
LTE: Cat. nine	-
LTE: Cat. 12	-
Screen: Type	LCD.
Screen: Diagonal	6.0 inches
Screen: size in mm	76 x 131 mm;
Screen: Resolution	1.080 x 1.920 pixels
Screen: Density Points	369 PPI
Screen: Max. Brightness in the dark room	493.1 kD / m²
Screen: Chess Contrast in Light Room	50:1
Screen: Chess Contrast in the Dark Room	147:1
Camera: Resolution	22.9 MPIX
Camera: Measured Permission	2.160 pairs of lines
Camera: Expert assessment of the quality of the pictures	OK
Camera: VN1 noises	2.0 VN1.
Camera: Minimum Focus Distance	4.2 mm;
Camera: Minimum shooting distance	10 cm;
Camera: Shutter time shutter with autofocus	0.74 C.
Camera: Optical stabilizer	-
Camera: Autofocus	Yes
Camera: Flash	Led.
Video resolution	1.920 x 1.080 pixels
Front-camera: Permission	15.9 MPIX
LED indicator	yes (multicolor)
Radio	Yes
SIM Card Type	Nano-Sim.
Dual Sim.	-
Protection against dust and moisture (IP certificate)	-
The fingerprint scanner
Available to user memory	21.3 GB
Memory Card Slot	Yes
USB connector	Type-C-USB 2.0
Bluetooth	4.2
NFC.	Yes
Emit for headphones	3.5 mm;
HD Voice	Yes
SAR	0.43 W / kg
Firmware version when testing	42.0.A.1.69
Date Date	2017-05-11

This smartphone with a narrow frame around a huge 6-inch screen received a 16 megapixel front camera with autofocus, optical stabilization and LED flash, which guarantees high-quality selfie even with weak lighting. News. Hi-Tech found out all the features of Sony Xperia XA Ultra.

Once at the MWC 2016 exhibition, Sony introduced the first smartphones under the updated Xperia brand, including, and the appearance in the X series X series big screen It became only a matter of time. And indeed, this announcement did not make himself wait long, soon the existing company "5-inch" was joined by a 6-inch Xperia Xa Ultra fillets. It is worth noting that Sony always managed niche "giantphones", starting with a somewhat exotic and including in demand. Recall that the recent models of smartphones with a large screen, foloding for themselves the place in the middle class, were already positioned with focusing on photo resources, taking into account the increasing popularity of Selfie. The XPERIA XA Ultra apparatus continued this tradition by proposing to lovers of "self" even more serious possibilities of the front camera, including to create "self-timers" in the dark. In addition to the 2- "SIM" version (F3212), a modification of this device with one subscriber identification module is also available (F3211).

Specifications

Model: F3212.
OS: Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with the Brand Shell of Xperia
Processor: 64-bit MediaTek Helio. P10 (MT6755), Armv8 architecture, 8 Arm Cortex-A53 cores, up to 2.0 GHz
Graphic coprocessor: Arm Mali-T860 MP2 (700 MHz)
RAM: 3 GB LPDDR3 (933 MHz, one channel)
Data storage memory: 16 GB, MICROSD / HC / XC Memory Card Support (up to 200 GB)
Screen: 6 inches, IPS, 1080r (1920x1080 pixels), Mobile Bravia Engine 2, Pixel density in. 367 PPI, Protective glass 2.5D
Main Camera: 21.5 MP, Sony Exmor RS (Optical Size 1 / 2.4 inches), 5-fold Clear Image Zoom, Aperture F / 2.2, Hybrid Autofocus, LED Flash
Front Camera 16 MP, Sony Exmor RS (optical size 1 / 2.6 inches), wide-angle lens (88 degrees), aperture F / 2.0, autofocus, optical image stabilization (OIS), LED flash
Network: GSM / GPRS / EDGE (2G), UMTS HSPA + (3G), LTE 4G Cat.4 (up to 150/50 Mbps)
Ranges lTE frequencies: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20
Interfaces: Bluetooth 4.1 (A2DP, APTX), Wi-Fi 802.11 A / B / G / N (2.4 GHz + 5 GHz), Miracast, Google Cast., NFC, USB-OTG
SIM-Card format: Nanosim (4FF)
Slots Configuration: Nanosim + Nanosim (Dual SIM Dual. Stand-BY)
NAVIGATION: GPS / GLONASS, A-GPS
Radio: FM tuner
Sensors: accelerometer, light sensors and approximation, gyroscope, compass
Battery: non-removable, lithium-ion, 2,700 mA * h, support for quick charging Quick Charge 3.0
Dimensions: 164x79x8.4 mm
Weight: 202 grams
Color: Graphite Black, White, Golden Lime

Design, Ergonomics

The new "Giantophone" fully complies with its name - Xperia Xa Ultra. The fact is that its design, right up to the details, repeats the 5.5-inch smartphone, differing, of course, increased dimensions. Here are the same characteristic roundings of the angles, metal sidewalls and plastic inserts along the ends, smoothly "flowing" around the perimeter. Rear cover from matte polycarbonate and tempered protective glass with a 2.5D effect. Visually the screen takes almost the entire width of the case - the side frame around it seems to be simply no. Due to this, the 6-inch pablet in the width is practically no different from 5.5-inch smartphones. So, it is only 1.1 mm wider than Apple iPhone 7 Plus (79 mm against 77.9 mm). At the same time, the top and lower frame of the screen also remained quite spacious. It should be noted that the dimensions of the new Giantfon and his immediate predecessor, 6-inch, differ only to the fractions of millimeters - 164x79x8.4 mm versus 164.2x79.6x8.2 mm. At the same time, the thickness of the housing in Xperia XA Ultra compared with predictably increased (8.4 mm against 7.9 mm) along with dimensions in the plan.

But the weight of the novelties exceeded 200 g (202 g according to the passport) that for the "non-metallic" smartphone even with a large screen all the same bust. For example, its plastic predecessors - and - weigh 171.8 g and 187 g, respectively. By the way, it is interesting, but the battery capacity of the "6-inch" over time only decreased - 3,000 mA * h, 2,930 mA * h and, finally, 2,700 mA * h (Xperia Xa Ultra).

As for coloring, they were visible at the time of the announcement only three - graphite black, white and gold lime. A novelty in black, which went to us for a test, because of this color of the brass matte plastic, it is quite quickly starting to look slightly. However, the devices in two other colors are predisposed to this. Recall also that the certification of smartphone housing in the family of protecting them from water and dust (with the exception of flagship) is not provided.

On the shock above the screen, decorated with the Sony logo, where they collected together led indicator Charging / notifications, light sensors and approximations, unlike, appeared, missing, LED flash. However, the "peephole" of the new 16 megapixel chamber (against 8 megapixel) also looks more expressive. Note that the cut in protective glass Under the grille of the "conversational" speaker adjacent to the upper end of the case.

Spacious dice under the display, like in, simply empty, since the navigation panel, which includes the touch icons of the "Back" buttons, "home" and " Recent applications"(" Triangle "," Domik "and" Square "), also on this apparatus.

On the upper Neck Holes have taken their own holes for the second microphone (noise reduction) and a 3.5 mm connector for audio arch. The MicroUSB connector for charging / synchronization on the lower end of the housing company was a "conversational" microphone and a decorative grille "Multimedia" speaker.

On the left edge, the connector for a microSD memory card and a slot with a tray into two seats under the subscriber identification modules are placed on the left edge of the subscriber's identification modules (both Nanosim format). Here I want to thank the developers who in this model managed to do without a combined slot with an alternative installation.

On the right edge, they collected together a rocker adjustment of the volume, selected by the camera control key, as well as the on / lock button. Since the Dactyloscopic Scanner in Xperia Xa Ultra, alas, is not provided, this button has a branded form of a metal rivet, in the classic Omnibalance stylist.

At the top of the rear panel, decorated with the original Xperia style, there was a place for the lens of the main chamber and the LED flash. The NFC antenna area designated the corresponding logo.

Although thanks to relatively compact sizes, Xperia Xa Ultra is not felt in the palm of the traditional "shovel", special options in the settings ("action with one hand") are designed to simplify the management of this "giantofon".

Screen, camera, sound

The new 6-inch Fablet does not boast a super high resolution on its display. For the installed IPS matrix, they cost the usual Full HD (1920x1080 points), which, taking into account the diagonal of the screen, ensures the density of pixels per inch in 367 PPI. With a good color reservation, the screen viewing angles are quite wide, and the installed anti-glare filter allows you to effectively use the smartphone even in bright external lighting conditions.

A wide range of backlight adjustment Allows you to select the most comfortable brightness value or manually, or simply rely on automation (option "Adaptive adjustment"), which, however, does not seem too damned. But the inclusion of an intelligent backlit control function ("backlight control"), which determines the finding of the device in hand, saves battery charge. The desired color temperature of the screen (the option "White balance") is also easy to install independently, using separate adjustments through channels R, G and B.

Touch, capacitive screen clearly reacts to pressing. Antutu Tester and Multitouch Tester programs confirmed multitouch for ten simultaneous touchs. Improve image quality Photo and video is offered by incorporating one of two options. According to the Mobile Bravia Engine 2 branded technology, analyzing the brightness distribution, optimizes the contrast, which gives the image of greater naturalness. In turn, the limit brightness mode (Super ViVID) makes the colors as bright as possible and saturated.

The oleophobic coating on the tempered glass with the 2.5D effect (manufacturer is unknown) allows you to relatively quickly delete from the fingerprints screen, which, also not bag, appear again on it in large quantities.

The main photo module "Giantfon" is equipped with a LED flash and uses a 21.5 megapixel sensor ExMor RS (optical size 1 / 2.4 inches). The lens with hybrid autofocus and 5-fold zoom Clear Image received the highest aperture in F / 2.2. Image stabilization here is not optical, but branded, digital (steadyShot). The maximum resolution of the pictures for the classic (4: 3) and widescreen (16: 9) aspect ratio is 5312x3984 points (21 MP) and 5312x2992 points (16 MP), respectively. Examples of photos can be viewed.

The main "chip" in Xperia XA Ultra was the front camera, which was not only the 16-megapixel sensor Exmor RS (optical size 1 / 2.6 inches), but also a wide-angle lens (88 degree viewing angle) with autofocus, optical image stabilization (image OIS), as well as light f / 2.0. For shooting in insufficient lighting conditions, an "intelligent" LED flash with a night portrait mode is provided.

The above is an example of such a shooting in a complete darkness, where in the absence of a suitable "victim" had to do "self-tracks". The maximum resolution of the pictures for the classical (4: 3) and widescreen (16: 9) aspect ratios for the front chamber are 3968x2976 points (12 MP) and 5120x2880 points (15 Mp), respectively.

Both cameras are able to shoot video liberties as Full HD (1920x1080 pixels) with frame frequency 30 FPS. All content is saved in the MP4 container files (AVC - video, AAC - sound).

The camera application is practically no different from what is used in other smartphones of the X line. Recall that at the top of the screen of this program there are pictograms for quick switching: on special applications For the camera, as well as in the shooting modes "Video", "manually" or "super car" (transitions between them are performed by horizontal swipes). In turn, to change the image from the main chamber to the frontal, and on the contrary, the swipe is used down from the top edge of the screen. As usual, the automatic mode selects the shooting parameters. But in the "manually" mode, it is possible to determine the very determination with the ISO values, the exposure steps and the presets of the white balance, but also with the most suitable scene (here more than one and a half dozen).

Selected button to control the camera, like the mode quickly launch, remained in place. In addition, the volume adjustment rocker is also easy to configure to change the scale of the image or start shooting.

"Multimedia" speaker in Xperia Xa Ultra, as in, only one, however, he sounds surprising, well and quite loud. But for listening to stereo recordings alternative to headphones, for obvious reasons, no. In addition, along with them, surround support is offered through the implementation of VPT technology (Virtual Phone Technology) - emulation of the concert hall, club, studios. In the settings, you can also specify the type of audio accessories used (in addition to the "ordinary", there are another five models of the headphone "inserts"). As for the adjustment of the parameters of the audio, then the Clearaudio + function can automatically optimize them. But equalizing the volume of different compositions is easy to pose a dynamic normalizer. IN manual mode There is a 5-band equalizer with presets. The built-in FM tuner only works with a connected wired headset, which is necessary as a shortwave antenna.

Stuffing, productivity

As a basic platform for Xperia Xa Ultra, the MEDIATEK Helio P10 chipset is chosen (it is MT6755), which is also used in.

The ARM Cortex-A53 True8Core processor cores are tacting with a frequency of up to 2.0 GHz. At the same time, two ARM Mali-T860 MP2 performing modules (550 MHz) with OpenGL ES 3.2 and OpenCl 1.2 support is used as a graphics accelerator. The MT6755 chip is manufactured according to the TSMC 28HPC + technological process (28 nm), which ensured a reduction in power consumption by 30-35% compared to chips produced in compliance with the "old" project standards 28HPC. In addition, increasing energy efficiency while maintaining sufficient computing power is achieved automatic adjustment CPU frequencies and video source. Helio P10 can work in LTE-TDD networks, LTE-FDD Cat. 6 (300/50 Mbps), HSPA +, TD-SCDMA, EDGE, etc., and also provided with Bluetooth interfaces 4.x LE and 2-band Wi-Fi. Basic configuration Xperia XA Ultra is supplemented with 3 GB of RAM type LPDDR3 (933 MHz), which is controlled by a single-channel controller. The "extra" gigabyte of RAM, compared to (3 GB against 2 GB), of course, affects the results of a number of tests.

Thus, the number of "knocked out" in the synthetic benchmark Antutu Benchmark "Virtual Parrots" came close to 50 thousand.

The results of assessing the effectiveness of the simultaneous use of several processor cores (VELLAMO) look more convincing than the assessment of the number of "horsepower" in the same-core version.

With variables high settings Performance and High Quality (Performance to the detriment of quality and vice versa) on the Visual Epic Citadel test The average frame rate at a resolution of 1800x1080 points remained almost unchanged - 58.3 and 58.1 FPS, respectively. But when changing the setting on Ultra High Quality, the value of this parameter decreased slightly to 43.2 FPS.

The average result of XPERIA XA Ultra showed 3DMark on a universal benchmark (Recommended Sling Shot C ES 3.1 tests). Although there is enough power to launch, including "heavy" applications.

The total number of points earned by Xperia Xa Ultra on the Base Mark OS II cross-platform benchmark amounted to 355.

From 16 GB of internal memory available approximately 8.56 GB, and freely, of course, even less. According to modern standards, this volume of the repository, unlikely, can be attributed to the advantages of the new apparatus. For its expansion, a slot is provided for a microSD / HC / XC memory card with a volume of up to 200 GB. Thanks to the support of USB-OTG technology, it is easy to connect a regular USB flash drive to the device, which we do not fail to make sure that the Corsair USB drive (16 GB) is removed.

To provide functions voice communication and mobile Internet Two subscriber identification modules are intended in Nanosim format (4FF), with support for 4G Cat.4 networks. In stock Support "Russian three" frequency bands 4G - Band 3 (1 800 MHz), Band 7 (2,600 MHz) and Band 20 (800 MHz). Both SIM cards use the same radio module, so they work in DSDS mode (Dual Sim Dual Standby).

As for other wireless communications, then, along with 2-range Wi-Fi 802.11 A / B / G / N (2.4 and 5 GHz), these are NFC and Bluetooth 4.1 interfaces.

When installing the "Transport Maps of Moscow" to the smartphone, the NFC interface allows you to find out the balance of the Moscow Troika's Moscow card and the "arrows" near Moscow.

To determine the location and navigation, the multisystem receiver can use GPS grouping satellites and GLONASS, as they say the results of Androits GPS Test and GPS Test. There is also built-in support for A-GPS technology.

The capacitance of the non-removable lithium-ion battery XPERIA XA ULTRA is 2,700 mA * h. The manufacturer claims that this is quite enough to work within two days without recharging with a certain typical profile of using a smartphone defined by the company itself. Completed with a novelty comes charger UCH20 (5 V; 1.5 A), which is required for 100% battery filling around two hours. In order to ensure the work of the smartphone within 5.5 hours after 10 minutes of the battery fill, the fast charging adapter UCH12 is recommended (3.6 ~ 12 V, Quick Charge 3.0), which will have to be purchased separately.

Antutu Tester's program appreciated the work of the battery of the smartphone by 6,932 points. Test set of videos in MP4 format (hardware decoding) and Full HD quality on full brightness spinning continuously for a little more than 5.5 hours.

Provided power saving modes are designed to increase time. autonomous work. So, Stamina allows, in particular, limit performance, disable background processes during inactivity, as well as set a list of applications that are allowed access to the network. The autonomy of Ultra Stamina is more significantly extended, however, leaving only the basic phone functions (voice calls, contacts and messages).

Software features

Smartphone XPERIA XA ULTRA is running operating system Android 6.0, the interface of which is hidden under the branded shell of Xperia. By software capabilities and set preset applications The new device is practically no different from.

In the "Actions of one hand" section, you can mark options for changing the screen size, shift to the right or left input fields graphic key, Dialing panels, etc.

Purchase, conclusions

The new phable from Sony received an updated pleasant design, in general, a repeating 5-inch smartphone from the same line H. to the main advantages of Xperia. Xa Ultra is also classified a bright and contrast 6-inch screen with narrow frames, the NFC interface, which allows, in particular, to read the balance card balance, as well as the ability to quickly charge the battery. However, the most important "chip" of the novelties began, of course, the front camera equipped with autofocus, "intelligent" flash and optical stabilization of the image.

The obvious disadvantage of the new Furniture looks like a modest amount of built-in memory. Video playback time in offline mode Also does not add the visa Xperia Xa Ultra. At the same time, the presence of a dactylconus scanner could become another advantage of a new smartphone (for medium-class devices, such a device is no longer surprising).

However, from the point of view of selfie, on whom, actually, this apparatus is aimed, an advanced front camera for shooting "self" at any time of the day, in fact, does not leave the Xperia Xa Ultra competitors. At the same time, at the time of testing, according to Yandex.Market, 28,990 rubles (model F3212) were asked in large retail chains (model F3212) and 27,990 rubles (model F3211), respectively. If this amount seems too high, then it is necessary to look at its predecessor - (24,990 rubles) with a simpler front camera, whose purchase will allow a little to save.

Results of the Sony Xperia XA Ultra smartphone review

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