Sony Xperia P Specs

I still remember when i bought this phone out of choices of, Nokia E7, Samsung SII Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and Apple iPhone 4s who got my attention. I had been using a Nokia C6, E75, Nokia 5800, 5310 etc earlier. This phone was cheaper than the other options I had. I didn't even know Sony makes phone in its name.

Having served me for two and a half years. Received my Sony Xperia Z2 a couple of hours earlier. Was doing a factory reset on Xperia P and thought this phone deserves a good farewell. Will still keep it. :) My first phone was Sony CMD Z7 back in 2003. Then shifted to Nokia and believed I would never shift again. As for most of the people, shift from Nokia wasn't easy. Samsung, LG, Moto etc seemed either too flashy with strange lights, grills, design or not so subtle UI. Iphone always seemed too pricey for what its worth. So Nokia it was all the way. Accordingly, I was totally getting a E7 which got delayed because of stock shortage.

However, saw it and drooled over it. Verge's gallery photos of Xperia P sold me out. I held it and it was such an amazing phone to hold, totally neck to neck with any Nokia or Apple iPhone 4s. This phone made the shift so easier and the purchase of 325$ was totally worth every cent. It will be tough to move to any other brand for a while I believe.

Thank you Sony,

A satisfied customer.

I use Xperia P for 1.5 years. Aluminium uni-body is just great and screen (with whitemagic) is awesome.
Internet speed is avarage. I got 1900ms on sunspider test. Poor when compared to new phones but sufficent for surfing, social media and e-mail.
Camera is overall good but panorama mod isnt working nice and vga front-camera isnt enough for selfie.
It doesnt support SD card (has 13gb storage tho) and have very poor battery. I charge it 2 times a day.
Stock user interface and keybord are laggy. I tried CM11, PA and slimkat. they are fast but have some bugs, also no stamina mode and radio.
Thus my advice is just stick with original JB (4.1.2) and use some 3rd party apps.
I use Zero launcher, fleksy keybord, contacts+ etc. NO LAG on main screen, keybord, messaging and calls.
Also root your phone and install GO backup and greenify. I freeze all unnecessary sony&google apps, my phone has 400mb free RAM atm. I also recommend Power Toggles, myMail and SD maid.

I bought this phone with ics out of the box it was the perfect dual core 1ghz ,1gb ram android phone to get with a great camera and awesome speaker and it's perfotming well with the most recent jellybean update ,in my opinion.if you want a compac package full of android goodies go for it