The
Sony XPERIA was released in May 2016 and used to cost 100 pounds. At one point,
the phone was even cheaper at only £ 75 - a real bargain. However, since its
release, the price has risen to £ 139, making it less attractive to its
competitors. In particular, two phones make the E5 expensive: the Honor 7A and
the Samsung Galaxy J5 (2017) each cost £ 120 and £ 140 respectively. By
comparison, the E5's newer competitors offer a faster processor, a better
screen, more powerful cameras, and a fingerprint reader. Simply put, they are
better in almost every way. So if you're looking for a cheap phone, I'd suggest
one of the other phones instead. If you still want to know how the XPERIA E5
behaved in 2016, read the original Katharine report below.
Sony XPERIA E5 - Design and Display:
The
combination of a 5-inch screen and a 8.2-mm thick chassis makes it feel
comfortable and compact in the hand. Granted, the resolution of 1280 x 720 is
not so exciting, since other low-priced mobile phones like the Moto G4 are
equipped with full HD resolutions, but the IPS screen of the E5 still seems
sharp from a normal viewing distance
More
importantly, the screen with its peak brightness of 511 cd / m² is extremely
bright - more than powerful enough to be readable in direct sunlight. The
viewing angles are also great, and the contrast ratio of 996: 1 helps the E5
look great in photos and videos. The color accuracy is less impressive.
However, the IPS panel can only display 83.9% of the sRGB color space. This is
slightly below average even for a budget smart phone, and the display tends to
exaggerate bluish tones due to the display's tendency to be overly cold. It's
by no means terrible, but skin tones and primary colors are a bit unnatural.
Sony XPERIA E5 - Performance:
However,
it is easy to overlook the errors in the display of the E5, as it is so nimble
in daily use. The device only has a 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6735 processor with four
cores and 1.5GB of RAM. The slimmer Android 6 version of Android 6, however,
feels extremely fast and responsive - the XPERIA E5 flies through the menu
screens in daily operation, and the opening and closing of apps also feel
lively. It's certainly much faster than the WileyFox Spark, which also has a
MT6735 chipset, and its Geek bench 4 scores are more or less equivalent to the
Moto G4 as the E5 ended up in a single-core test with 500 points 1,500 in the
multi-core test.
However,
the E5 came off easily when I ran our GPU tests. The chips from MediaTek always
had to contend with their colleagues in Qualcomm in the graphics department,
and the E5 was no different. In the GFX Bench GL off-screen Manhattan 3 test,
the E5 only scored 186 frames. This corresponds to a total frame rate of 3
frames per second, which is more than twice as slow as the Moto G4. It can
still handle simple games like Threes, but on more complex tracks like
Hearthstone the frame rate was often quite high.
Sony XPERIA E5 - Battery life:
However,
the biggest mistake of the E5 must be the secondary battery life. Despite Sony
claims that you can get up to two days out of the XPERIA E5, in our
uninterrupted video playback test, I only managed 8 hours and 41 minutes with
screen brightness set to our standard 170 cd / m2, That should be almost enough
to endure a busy day, but those who have a long day ahead of them need to have
the power charger handy.
Sony XPERIA E5 - Camera:
I
was not particularly impressed by the XPERIA E5's 13 megapixel camera. On the
whole, the colors are very vivid and vibrant, but poor exposure control means
that shadows look terribly dark even in bright, sunny weather. Activation of
HDR in manual mode does not really help either. There are also quite a few
noise and rainbow stain effects in the sky and clouds - and those artifacts get
worse when you go into the house. Despite the aperture of f / 2.0, which is a
fraction larger than your typical f / 2.2 lens, each of my test shots was
affected by blurry, blurry shadows and a serious lack of fine details.
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