Sony Ericsson has a lot riding on the Xperio neo, which arrived in Australia late last month. It’s the company’s most recent top-of-the-line handset, with a focus on an all-round great performance.
Design
Sony Ericsson has invested a lot of time in making the Xperia neo as sleek and modern-looking as possible. Colour-wise, and the neo comes with a (very) dark blue metallic tint, that in most light really comes across as being black. Interestingly, Sony has opted to make the standard Android back, home and menu buttons at the bottom of the front of the device physical — they’re not touch-sensitive like on most other Android phones coming out at the moment. Depending on your preference, you’ll either love them or hate them, but they match the style of the phone and the chrome look is suitable with the dark blue backing.
Down the right-hand side of the device is the power, volume and camera button; all of which are nicely set-back into the frame of the neo. They too, sport the chromium-style featured on the Android buttons which seems to match in nicely with the handset, but it does feel like the power button is set-back a little too deep — perhaps making it more prominent would make it easier to distinguish the button.
Intriguingly, rather than place the power button on the top of the phone in it’s traditional position, Sony Ericsson has opted to put the HDMI and USB port on top, and demote the power button to the side of the handset. Perhaps one of these could have gone on the side of the device? Having two on top feels a little cluttered, but credit to Sony Ericsson for making it still fit in well with the neo’s overall design.
Nit-pick time, and we’d have to say that once again, it seems Android handset manufacturers just can’t seem to settle on using the standard Android button layout. Sony Ericsson has decided not to include the search button found on most other Android handsets at all, and as seems to be the norm at the moment the buttons are in a different order to other handsets.
The frame of the phone is also a little hit and miss. It strikes us as perhaps looking a little ‘cheap’ when compared to the frames of others such as Apple’s iPhone 4 or the Samsung Galaxy S II — fingerprints show in the right light, and the plastic doesn’t feel quite as good as others in your hand.
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Design
Sony Ericsson has invested a lot of time in making the Xperia neo as sleek and modern-looking as possible. Colour-wise, and the neo comes with a (very) dark blue metallic tint, that in most light really comes across as being black. Interestingly, Sony has opted to make the standard Android back, home and menu buttons at the bottom of the front of the device physical — they’re not touch-sensitive like on most other Android phones coming out at the moment. Depending on your preference, you’ll either love them or hate them, but they match the style of the phone and the chrome look is suitable with the dark blue backing.
Down the right-hand side of the device is the power, volume and camera button; all of which are nicely set-back into the frame of the neo. They too, sport the chromium-style featured on the Android buttons which seems to match in nicely with the handset, but it does feel like the power button is set-back a little too deep — perhaps making it more prominent would make it easier to distinguish the button.
Intriguingly, rather than place the power button on the top of the phone in it’s traditional position, Sony Ericsson has opted to put the HDMI and USB port on top, and demote the power button to the side of the handset. Perhaps one of these could have gone on the side of the device? Having two on top feels a little cluttered, but credit to Sony Ericsson for making it still fit in well with the neo’s overall design.
Nit-pick time, and we’d have to say that once again, it seems Android handset manufacturers just can’t seem to settle on using the standard Android button layout. Sony Ericsson has decided not to include the search button found on most other Android handsets at all, and as seems to be the norm at the moment the buttons are in a different order to other handsets.
The frame of the phone is also a little hit and miss. It strikes us as perhaps looking a little ‘cheap’ when compared to the frames of others such as Apple’s iPhone 4 or the Samsung Galaxy S II — fingerprints show in the right light, and the plastic doesn’t feel quite as good as others in your hand.
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