Review Sony Xperia E4

Test results Sony Xperia E4

Expert evaluations

Dimensions and weight

Cameras

Internet

Interfaces

Multimedia

Working with text

Battery

Performance

Memory

Screen

Smartphone Sony Xperia E4 - a typical 5-inch state employees. Novelty more rounded shape, unlike other devices, lines, and thick body. While some smartphones Xperia waterproof, Model E4 has not received protection from water.At Sony Xperia E4 rather old chipset average of MediaTek, which is enough for normal operation and for most tasks. Cameras and display were at the level of budget devices. Thus, the camera of 5 MP and 2, can be found in any smartphone is much cheaper. Display resolution - all qHD (960 × 540 pixels).But it is bright, with good viewing angles for the price, as well as good behavior in the sun.In tests on battery life, the device has received the results of a little better than the average low-cost smart phone: Sony Xperia E4 HD video lost a little more than 6 hours. Built-in memory of 8 GB which is good for public sector employees. There is a memory card slot that supports cards up to 32 GB.Considering the price of Sony Xperia E4 in the spring of 2015 (approx. 10,000 rubles.), The smartphone looks expensive. However, as this new product, its price may fall further.

Dimensions and weight

In our opinion, the smartphone Sony Xperia E4 and looks pretty cheap. Its dimensions - 137 × 74,6 × 10,7 mm. The housing is small in height, but wide. As a rule, state employees, for example, Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime or Philips S398 , slightly longer and narrower. The device impressive thickness - up to 10.7 mm, the smart phone is clearly not claim to be the thin device. The weight of new items - 145 grams, the same 5-inch weighs YotaPhone 2  or HTC Desire 610 .

As for appearance, it seems, the design of Xperia models have become boring and the company itself. Now the smartphone more rounded shape, is "enveloping" the body is a removable cover, almost like a smartphone Lumia (however, it is strange that while the phone battery non-removable). By the way, the cap is not so easy.The display panel slightly above the rest of the body.But the shape and button layout remains the same: a circular power button and volume rocker - on the right side. Speakers located on the front top and bottom, and one on the back of the bottom.
The main body material - an inexpensive plastic. Smartphone Sony Xperia E4 can be purchased in white and black colors (we tested the model in white). The build quality is quite good, but a removable cover creaks and smacked his if to put pressure on her.

Screen

Diagonal screen Sony Xperia E4 - 5 inches. Display resolution typical budget - 960 × 540 pixels, which gives a density of 220 pixels per inch. On this screen you can see the individual pixels. If the quality of the display for you to determining criterion when choosing a smartphone, we recommend that you pay attention to the  Acer Liquid Jade or Philips S398  with HD display.Matrix type - IPS, viewing angles are average, good for its price. According to the results of tests, it is quite a bright screen. The maximum measured brightness was 431 cd / m2 - is a good indicator. The minimum brightness of the white background was 18 cd / m2, which is clearly noticeable when reading in the dark. In the display settings are no "clever" regimes like the flagship of the company, but there are infinitely adjustable white balance. We also found that good display reacts to the sun: the information remains readable, despite the fact that the protective coating of the display noticeable glare. The smartphone is available for auto brightness function that works quickly, but we believe in a fairly narrow range of brightness.As we expected, the Sony had no mode of operation with gloves, but the display is not so actively collects fingerprints.

Camera

The phone Sony Xperia E4 mounted camera of 5 MP and 2. In the main camera has an LED flash, autofocus mode, and to improve the detail of shaded and the illuminated areas of the frame. It detects faces and smiles, takes a series of photos by holding your finger, add effects and retouching shoot panoramas. In addition, there are fun virtual effects to video, you can superimpose virtual scenes, such as gnomes or dinosaurs walking.The maximum photo resolution - 2560 × 1920 pixels. And in the auto mode the resolution will be lower if you do not change the aspect ratio from 16: 9 to 4: 3.Detailed images of the main chamber is typically low for the 5 MP (2560h1920 pixels). During the tests, we noticed that the camera takes quite a while (between shots takes a long time), so do not shoot moving objects.In addition, the quality of photos depends on the lighting: the deterioration of the lighting in the pictures immediately visible "noise". Many of the photos have turned out too bright or overexposed. However, the problem is partially solved in the mode of HDR. It works effectively.The front camera is 2 MP removes Property resolution of 1600x1200 pixels and HD-video at 30 f / s.

Working with text

At the keyboard Sony Xperia E4 extensive customization capabilities. It supports continuous input text using strokes (Swype), work with dictionaries, and has a few covers for the keyboard. In the settings you can adjust AutoCorrect, use your writing style (smartphone will analyze the words written by you in social networks and e-mail client to use them for tips). There is also a voice input, layout additional characters and a private key for smileys. Changing to another language by using a single key.
You have the ability to use the keyboard for one hand, if you think a large screen. In it you can move the keyboard to the right or to the left for easy typing with one hand.In our view, the keyboard is designed to trifles, and we appreciated it highly.

Internet

As a browser at the Sony Xperia E4 presented Google Chrome. Its main feature - sync with the desktop version. We tested the brauzera- overall it works fine, but sometimes the "retarding" pages. Multiple zoom pages or individual modes of reading in this browser is not. But once you can scale the size of a pre-selected - it is necessary to double-click on the screen. Also, there is a search on the page and the mode of reducing traffic.

Communication

The set of interfaces from Sony Xperia E4 typical budget smartphone. The phone is available: Wi-Fi (b / g / n) with Wi-Fi mode modem, Bluetooth 4.0 low energy consumption and support A2DP, A-GPS and GLONASS. It should be noted that the predecessor, Xperia E3 worked with LTE, there is no such possibility. We tested the interface - it worked fine.The smartphone works with the Micro-SIM cards, the choice has dvuhsimochny version of the device and the version with support for LTE. There are connectors: Headset and easy Micro-USB 2.0 without MHL or USB OTG devices to connect to the phone.

Multimedia

Music player Sony Xperia E4 supports many formats and plays MP3, FLAC, WAV-files and a number of less popular formats. The tests not only play the AC-3 or DTS formats. Sorry, but bundled to Xperia E4 no headphones, but there is a firmware application Walkman with good customization capabilities, including an equalizer.With all the video as a whole it is also good, but the player did not want to play video formats MPG, FLV and format of the videos MKV. Integrated video player has a number of settings, including support for subtitles.

Battery

The smartphone Sony Xperia E4 has a removable lithium-polymer battery capacity of 2300 mAh (recall that Sony Xperia E3 was 2330 mAh). In our tests, the battery of the smartphone has shown good results for state employees. The unit lost HD-video at the maximum brightness of 6:00 for 15 minutes. In music mode, with the screen off, the device discharges for 54 hours (over two days). In the not very intensive use (included Wi-Fi, a periodic browsing, a couple of calls a day, listening to music, one film a day and casual games) battery lasts for 1-1.5 days.Comes with Charger 0.85 A. This smartphone is charging for a long time: it took us about three hours to fully charge the Sony Xperia E4.

Performance

Smartphone Sony Xperia E4 is equipped with a chip average - quad Mediatek MT6582, clocked at 1.3 GHz.Go with Qualcomm on a budget MediaTek looks very strange, apparently, Sony has decided to save on the budget line. RAM - 1 GB of graphics accelerator meets the Mali-400MP2. By the standards of Android-smartphone Xperia E4 runs quite fast and loose. With an active browsing multiple pages open the device starts to "slow down", but not critical.

Chipset :	Mediatek MT6582
Number of cores and frequency :	four core, 1.3 GHz
Memory :	1 GB
Built-in memory :	8 GB
Graphics processor :	Mali-400MP2

Smartphone Sony Xperia E4 is suitable for most applications and for undemanding games. According to the results of our synthetic tests, the smartphone takes a middle position. In games Sony Xperia E4 showed himself medium. In games like Asphalt 8 will have to play at low chart, and Minion Rush everything goes smoothly. In synthetic tests showed results of a smartphone, typical of the "stuffing" the average level. Thus, in the smartphone AnTuTu benchmark average was about 19,000 points, and 3D Mark Ice Storm Unlimited - bit has not held up to 3000. "Filling" is not the flagship, but the smartphone is operating normally, and allows you to run most games.

Memory

The total amount of internal memory in Sony Xperia E4 limited to 8 GB, the user are available 4.78 GB. It's a little, but you can buy a memory card separately. Sony Xperia E4 supports microSD cards up to 32 GB. It is possible to produce a "hot-swappable" memory card without rebooting - just remove the cover and insert the card into the slot.

Features

Smartphone running the operating system Android 4.4.4 with a proprietary interface from Sony: all standard applications (by SMS-messages to the gallery) have been revised and are original look. Today Sony Xperia E4 not in the list of smartphones that will receive the update to Android 5.0, and is unlikely to happen. The special features include a removable lid smartphone in combination with non-removable battery and firmware application Walkman with a good equalizer.

Competitors

Price Sony Xperia E4 on March 2015 - about 10,500 rubles. As a novelty, in the near future we can expect to reduce the cost. As the competition will be called Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime and Philips S398.The heaviest of the trinity - Philips S 398 (170 grams, compared to 155 at the Grand Prime and 144 grams at Xperia E4). In size the widest smartphone - Sony, but it is "shorter" rest. As for the display, the Philips S 398 looks advantageous to your HD display. Cameras at the best Grand Prime with 8 and 5 MP. Camera Xperia E4 «modest" - only 5 and 2 MP. But at runtime outsiders have Philips S 398. The performance of all three devices at the same level, but equipped with the Grand Prime fresher. A bit surprising was the fact that the Sony Xperia E4 does not support LTE, while the previous version works with LTE.Given the characteristics of the Sony Xperia E4 and its competitors, the new product from Sony seems overvalued. In our opinion, the smartphone should be cheaper. However, it may soon drop the price of the smartphone.