Clearer sound on the Sony Xperia U gives you a better experience when listening to the music player or watching movies and TV shows on the phone, all of which you can do. The phone also comes with a 5 megapixel camera for HD video recording and great connectivity options.
As with the Sony Xperia S, the phone offers a preloaded music player app that seamlessly sorts all music tracks by artist, album, genre and more, while also allowing you to create your own custom playlists. . Multiple audio file formats are supported for music playback, and the internal audio recorder also supports three different formats, respectively. Music is delivered much more clearly thanks to xLoud Experience, which is Sony’s exclusive audio filtering technology. In addition, the clear bass and clear stereo features ensure that the sound quality is not affected by volume or other related factors. For more music, just go to Sony Entertainment Network, which is built right into your music player, and search to download from thousands more playlists. If you hear a song but don’t know what it is, use the TrackID feature to audio record what you hear and let it provide you with the track information and any download options. If that’s not enough and you just want to enjoy the latest music and live news, the phone also has an FM radio with RDS.
The Xperia U features a 3.5-inch Reality Display with Mobile BRAVIA Engine that provides a bright, crisp capacitive touchscreen that offers intuitive on-screen controls and full keyboards, respectively. The screen is also protected by a scratch-resistant, anti-reflective coating on its mineral glass, making it a considerably robust phone. The phone runs Android Gingerbread (2.3), but can be upgraded to Android Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0), and offers multitasking and smooth navigation of your apps thanks to its 1 gigahertz dual-core processor and 512 megabytes of flash memory. Connectivity is excellent with a microUSB compatible USB 2.0 connection and Bluetooth for wireless file sharing. Meanwhile, DLNA allows you to share HD videos captured with the 5-megapixel camera on a big screen. Photos can also be taken and shared.
As usual for a phone from the manufacturer that brought the Walkman to the world, the Sony Xperia U doesn’t skimp on audio quality or let you enjoy music on the go. Apart from that it offers a well-known and powerful operating system and is accompanied by many other impressive features.