I bought this mobile for my dad.when ma dad asked me to select a mobile SONY came to my mind first.Thinking that its a great brand and atleast wont cheat users..my father loves to take photos.but in this phone after 3 0r 4 photos mobile starts to get hot(yeah HOT i mean not warm).camera perfomance is okay but not great ..only good thing it has got is GOOD BATTERY BACKUP & GOOD UI.MULTITASKING is good (THANK 1 GB RAM).WALKMAN (music app) is not the upto the mark of something we expect from a sony brand.BUT THE OVER HEATING PROBLEM HAS BECOME A NIGHTMARE !! PROS 1.good batterylife 2.smooth ui (no sony magic here !! just because 1 GB RAM) 3.sleek design 4.average camera 5.led notification 6.light weight CONS 1.battery heats up (u may afraid are you holding a bomb in your hand that may explode any time) 2.bad video recording and NO PAUSE FUNCTION in video camera (SONY u are great !) so guys choose wise live well...

THIS PHONE DOESN'T SUPPORT TRANSFERRING YOUR APPS TO EXTERNAL SD. APPS LIKE APP2SD, LINK2SD WHICH HELPS IN TRANSFERRING YOUR APPS TO YOUR EXTERNAL MEMORY DOESN'T WORK IN THIS PHONE EVEN AFTER ROOTING. THE INTERNAL MEMORY THOUGH STATED 4 GB AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE IS ACTUALLY 2 GB AVAILABLE MEMORY AND WITH THAT ITS NOT POSSIBLE TO INSTALL GAMES AND APPS WHICH ALWAYS NEEDS UPDATES. YOU CANNOT INSTALL OR TRANSFER YOUR APPS TO THE EXTERNAL MEMORY WHICH IS WHY THIS PHONE IS JUST AN USELESS DEVICE.

let me sound more practical by not using words like antutu... and others geeky terms. or by comparing it with brands without manufacturing capabilities(micromax, lava, karbon..) my first android was samsung galaxy pop..then xolo A500. samsung lacked RAM and and good battery life. xolo was full of bugs and like usual low china quality. with full of useless specs. I wanted to buy it from flipkart. but was pre-order item so bought it from a retailer. the phone has everything you would expect from an android phone. - The biggest strength is the energy efficient S4 krait processor. found right now only on Nokia 520,620 and some hing end devices. we dont need a big battery on this chipset. so dont count battery mah. though sony sensibly gave a big 1700mah battery. - 1 Gb RAM, no one else is giving at this price. its necessary because android jellybean is not efficient with 512MB. and running all those chat applications messengers and background apps altogether needs a lot of ram. - Good battery backup upto 2 days with normal usage with fb messenger, browser ,whatsapp etc. you need to charge it next evening. - good design and a useful customizable notification light that will let me know if there is a miss-call or msg. without touching the phone. This is Sony's best answer to nokia and samsung mid-range smart phones. SAMSUNG - is selling good designs but with old hardware with cortex a9 & a5. all battery drainers. all samsung in this range are old hardware. NOKIA- Nokia 520 & 620 have nearly same features to Xperia M and have excellent Build, but with WINDOWS i feel like in a prison. i used my bro's nokia 520 for 2 days and it felt like hell!! windows is only favored by people who have never used androids. My brother is jealous of my phone :D and he is using my xolo A500 ... and his nokia 520 is now a showpiece. This is a great phone. and i am loving it.... Thanx sony for such an excellent built and budget phone. Go for it..

I bought this phone 10 days back.The pros of this phone has already been mentioned by lot many here and as of now I feel they are true. So let me mention something here which has not been noticed or atleast highlighted by many and what I felt I should have know before buying this phone. This phone has an internal storage of 2.05GB( of the 4GB ) user available and it has android 4.1.2.Now this means You have only 2.05GB to install all ur apps. Many may be wondering why I cant put an external SD card and just get rid of this space issue.Well thats exactly what I did, but for all those who still dont understand it let me make it clear- android 4.1.2 doesnt have an option to move apps to SD card inbuilt in it( 4.0 ICS and Android 4.2 has it but this one version doesnt have it) Now I did a lot of google search and found that Android SDK and some commands can do the trick for me and even tried that.Even though the process was successful my phone still install all my apps to internal memory and in my case the internal memory is getting filled fast and may be in the near future my internal memory is gonna get almost full.Rooting will be the only option left after that. All the other features in this phone is really awesome for the money we pay.Its 1GB RAM and dual core-1GHZ runs everything fast and smooth.and yeah It just have one of the most impressive audio system in it. So my call is, this is really an awesome phone other than for the one major issue that I mentioned above.So If you are a hard core app fan..then think twice before buying this ..otherwise it just an awesome device with full value for the money you pay.

Got my phone... and now i have more reasons to love SONY... 1)Active Noise cancellation mic at back..!! this extra piece of hardware will make sure i can hear to calls even during big noise around me.. 2)Again extra piece of hardware, Illumination LED, i can make custom notifications 3)Scratch-less screen (not gorillas glass though) but still, atleast i wont need to spend every few months for that plastic screen guard sitting on my screening and ruining my touch experience 4)NFC yes.. i see around me people who have NFC business cards, all i need to touch them (the business card) with my phone, and contacts gets saved, the technology is still evolving and this makes my phone future ready 5) Arduino ADK Support..!! Amazing, i didn't expect this..SONY when makes a phone it never reduces any stock functionality, even samsung has removed drivers for USB ADK from all its devices, that were needed to connect android accessory... But not SONY, so i can make my custom hardware that can be controlled via this smartphone SUPERB...!!! 6) and not the miss, the preinstalled Apps..!! these are proprietary sony apps, made by best developers around the globe with features you won't get even in paid apps.! sony Walkman player, Smart Connect, which allows you to decide how your phone reacts to any accessory (charger/headphone) and you can trigger actions depending. Xperia Link, for tethering (much much better than settings option) , Converter app, Drag and share (very easily you can share your /audio/video to other phone/tv/tablet/fb/picasa/youtubr/email/NFC and interface is supercool. drag and drop) X-alert, mobile tracker that cannot be removed... you might get above hardware advantage in other phones too (obviously at much higher cost) but not these apps..!! for a 13K phone, Jannat hai ye but like my teachers said, you can never get full marks, i'll take 1 star for not so brilliant camera

Hello friends, The phone is good enough with the speed, configs and other things.. But the most important thing - the OS hangs a lott..! Within 3 months of my usage, I have being switching it off every 3rd day for some or the other reason..! It is much better to invest in MOTO to get the best phone under budget... :-) Shop wise.. :-)