Sony Xperia C5 Ultra

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80% A Big Screen Phone Done Right
Source: NDTV Gadgets Archive.org version
Overall, it's hard to find a much wrong with the Sony Xperia C5 Ultra Dual. It's amongst the best big screen phones we've come across. The phone was launched in India with a price tag of Rs. 29,990, though it is now available in the market for slightly less. If you are looking for a 6-inch phone, you have other options such as the Asus Zenfone 2 ZE601KL and the Gionee Elife E8 which can be seen as direct competitors to the Sony Xperia C5 Ultra Dual.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/16/2015
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 70% performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 80% workmanship: 80%

Sony Xperia C5 Ultra review
Source: GSM Arena Archive.org version
Sony's Ultra lineup rarely catches the spotlight. The company has been busy updating its upper-midrange fleet but phablets don't obviously have the mass appeal of their regular phone siblings. Now, if a six-or-so-inch screens are an already small niche and LED-assisted high-resolution wide-angle selfie cameras are arguably even smaller, what about the intersection of these two?
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/25/2015

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Model: The Sony Xperia C5 Ultra smartphone, which was launched in August 2015, comes with a 6 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels. The bezel is very slim creating a near borderless appearance. The Xperia C5 Ultra has a glossy finish, which is more slippery and easily attracts fingerprints. In return, all the controls are placed within comfortable reach. The Sony Xperia C5 Ultra is powered by 1.7 GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6752 processor with 2 GB of RAM. The phone packs 16 GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 200 GB via a microSD card. As far as the cameras are concerned, the Sony Xperia C5 Ultra packs a 13 MP primary camera on the rear and a 13 MP front shooter. Both cameras features a LED flash.

The selfie camera has an HDR mode, and an automatic scene recognition system makes sure that pictures look their best. It features 22 mm wide-angle lens, and the soft-focus LED flash is specifically designed for close quarter use. The Sony Xperia C5 Ultra has a 2,930 mAh battery, which lasts up to 7 hours of continuous web browsing. The Xperia keyboard has every feature which is needed including symbols on long press, a smiley key, and Swype-like gesture input. There's also a one-handed mode, which squishes the entire keyboard to one side for easier access. A selection of three differently colored skins is also available. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, NFC, FM radio, 4G. Sensors on the phone include a proximity sensor, an ambient light sensor, an accelerometer, and gyroscope.

ARM Mali-T760 MP2: The ARM Mali-T760 MP2 offers two cores (hence the name MP2) clocked with up to 700 MHz (resulting in 48 GFLOPS).

These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

MT6752: ARM based octa core SoC with 8x ARM Cortex-A63 64-Bit processor cores clocked at up to 1.7 GHz. Also integrates a ARM Mali-T760 MP2 at 700 MHz, an LTE radio and H.265 video decoder.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

6.00":

This display is quite big for a smartphone but frequently used for smartphones.

Large display-sizes allow higher resolutions. So, details like letters are bigger. On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.  

0.187 kg:

Only few smartphones are more lightweight than this.

Sony: Sony Corporation is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Japan. Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game consoles, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its name is derived from sonus, the Latin word for sound. The company was founded 1946 with another name and renamed in 1958. Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group, which is engaged in business through its five operating segments—electronics, games, entertainment (motion pictures and music), financial services and other. Sony is a notebook manufacturer of medium size according international market shares.

From 2014, Sony has reduced the production of Vaio laptops and finally discontinued them. Sony is still present in the smartphone and tablet market, yet not among the Top 5 manufacturers.

80%: This rating is not convincing. The laptop is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.

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