Sony Xperia C4 - 5.5-inch device with excellent performance

Sony is known not only for the quality of its technology, but also for the overpayment for the brand. For a long time, the manufacturer did not hesitate to bring to the market not the most powerful devices with a very sensitive price tag for the buyer. The situation changed somewhat in 2015, when several models appeared with an adequate price / parameters combination. One of these devices was the Sony Xperia C4. This is a rather large device for its time with an interesting process, support for LTE and NFC. In addition, the device was released in two versions - e5303 (1 sim) and e5333 (2 sim). This is always a plus, since the buyer can choose the option that suits him better and not overpay for an unnecessary function, in particular, for the second SIM card. For more information about the device in the review of the Sony Xperia C4.

Specifications

Features Sony Xperia C4 look much more interesting than the previous model C3. At the time the device entered the market, its price was 21,000 rubles.At the same time, the one-year-old C3 phone did not drop much in price, and it could be bought for 18 thousand rubles. The difference in money is not big, but the older device and the RAM have more, and the processor allowed to play modern games, and the diagonal is not small with a good resolution. It is worth noting that C4 for iron could argue with many competitors in the same price tag, and among them was the A7 - the senior unit at the time in the new line of mid-budget devices from Samsung.

Specifications	Sony Xperia C4
Screen	5.5 inches, IPS, FHD
Chipset	MediaTek MT6752, 8 * 1.7 GHz
Memory	2/16 GB, microSD 128 GB
Interfaces	LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC, GPS, Glonass
Camera	13 Mp, 5 Mp
Battery	2600 mAh
Dimensions and weight	150 * 77 * 7.9 mm, 147 grams

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By the standards of 2015, the device is fully equipped. You can hardly think of something else for the phone in the middle price segment. Moreover, Sony is one of the few brands that left separate memory card slotand also installed an NFC chip that was not very popular at that time into its devices. And all this despite the fact that the design of the model, though not exclusive, but more than pleasant, and the build quality and ergonomics, even today, remain the strengths of the Japanese company.

Design

Sony Xperia C4 has to some extent transitional design. Older devices or approximately released at the same time as one of the chips had soldered inserts in the side faces. They could be metal, plastic, glass, but always were. The next generation of devices received a looped surface, such a concept from Sony is present today, in 2018. In C4, inserts are gone, but smooth transitions have not yet appeared. The device is completely plastic, the side faces are rounded, which makes the model comfortable in the hand, even taking into account the 5.5-inch diagonal.

The second point, which makes the phone comfortable to use - rear plastic has a rough surface. Due to this, it is absolutely not slippery, but this problem has always had a place with phones with plastic casing. According to reviews, the only reason why you should buy a case for this unit - scratching. Still, plastic material is not the toughest, and with the active use of time, it will lose its appearance.

The front panel of the smartphone is not symmetrical. Typically, the manufacturer left the top and bottom frame approximately equal in size, but in this case it turned out that the bottom panel is very narrow.since there are no elements on it, and the upper one turned out to be larger due to the serious size of the camera and its own flash. Here is installed the speaker, proximity sensors. If you turn the device backs, then in general everything is familiar - the camera, flash, NFC chip, microphone hole.

Important! Another change in design - the speaker, handed down on the back of the phone. It is small and located at the bottom of the phone. Thus, it turns out that the user constantly blocks it with his hand. Quite often, holding the phone in your hand in a busy place, you can simply not hear the call.

With each device, the company changes the position of the SIM card and memory card slots. Sometimes they are on the left, then on the right, the card itself is either sunk or placed on a sliding sled. In this model, the slots are located on the right above the power button, they are closed with a single lid, and the cards are inserted directly into the phone. The device does not have dust and moisture protection, the lid here has a decorative character.

In addition to these elements, on the right in the lower part they placed a button to control the camera, as well as volume control. On the left side brought MicroUSB without any covers and plugs.The upper end has become the location of the headphone jack. There is nothing on the bottom. It is not very clear why it was in this way to change the position of the connectors, but it is worth noting that charging connection on the side is not very convenient. Therefore, the design of the phone has two drawbacks:

• speaker, constantly closed palm;
• power sticking out of the left side of the device.

Color solution Sony Xperia C4 Dual - white, black and pale green "mint." The last color is ambiguous, it seems that it should be of interest because of its uniqueness, but it is too faded for this, therefore devices of classical shades are of more interest.

Screen

The smartphone Sony Xperia C4 has a display with a diagonal of 5.5 inches and a resolution of FHD. At this size of the matrix, the resolution is more than adequate, pixels are not visible. The production technology of the screen - IPS, which gives wide corners and accurate color reproduction. There is support for work in gloves, touch for 10 touches. The display of the smartphone has excellent brightness, high-quality oleophobic layer, anti-reflective coating, adequate illumination at night.

Brightness adjustment can be done in manual mode or trust in automatic tuning, which works by an external brightness sensor.Also the model there is a proximity sensorwhen the user brings the phone to his ear, he automatically turns off and locks the display.

Important! The disadvantages of the matrix are the unstable black color (it is not always displayed correctly and rolls into gray tones), as well as the inaccurate work of the automatic brightness control. In the last question it is better to set the necessary parameters by yourself.

Considering anything on the screen in bright sunlight is quite realistic, in this respect, the phone is good. The matrix can be estimated on a solid top five, since its drawbacks are typical for phones in the price range in question.

Camera

Phone Sony Xperia C4 - this is another attempt to sell users of photo capabilities. Of particular interest is the front camera. It is represented by a wide-angle matrix with a resolution of 5 megapixels. The focus is fixed, there is a flash of its own. For the model did full manual and automatic modes, there are support electronic stabilization, HDR, smile recognition. Video can be shot in FHD. Simply put, the front-end is almost equated with the main matrix and gave it similar capabilities.

The main matrix is ​​13 megapixels with autofocus. The latter works fairly quickly.The modes are all similar to the front camera - manual and automatic. There is a traditional for Sony 2015 augmented reality modein which you can add different funny objects to the finished pictures or add a portrait with a mustache, a hat and other objects. Video phone writes in FHD.

In general, both cameras turned out to be quite good, there are no serious drawbacks, although in some places there is not enough sharpness or too much noise.. There is a feeling that Sony could have made the camera at the level of its flagships, but specifically introduced a number of shortcomings in order to separate the expensive segment from the middle one. For its price, the smartphone copes with shooting photos perfectly. The phone is suitable for people who just love to shoot interesting objects, and for lovers of selfies. In all situations, the camera behaves with dignity.

Performance

Sony Xperia C4 is a device that is significantly different from its predecessor in the filling. The device received a fresh processor designed for the middle segment - MT6752. it eight cores with a frequency of 1.7 GHz. Recall the release date of the device - 2015. At that time, eight cores were a serious indicator, and even now, it is worth noting, too.As a result, the phone will give to play, sit on the Internet, chat with friends in several applications. Finding a task for this model that is beyond its power is quite difficult.

Important! On Antutu, the phone is gaining 43 thousand points, the closest competitor in the similar price of the Lenovo P90 on the Intel Atom Z3560 processor is 40 thousand points, the main competitor Samsung A7 could reach only 31 thousand.

When working, the phone has heating at the top of the casewhich can reach 42 degrees. This happens only under severe loads, for example, in games.

The memory of the device is represented by 2 gigabytes of RAM, which is more than enough for its time. The main memory is 16 gigabytes, this is not much considering the fact that some are occupied by the OS and firmware, but it is possible to add a capacious memory card or use USB media through support for OTG.

Regarding the OS, it should be noted that the model already out of the box comes with Android 5.0while the majority of competitors are working on Android 4.4 with the ability to upgrade to the new version. Traditionally, the Sony firmware does not carry almost nothing superfluous, the proprietary unobtrusive interface, the minimum amount of native software.Due to this, Sony phones are well optimized and do not land the battery too much.

Autonomy

The battery in the device has a capacity of 2600 mAh. For Sony, this is more than a normal figure, since the manufacturer has never sought to put high-capacity batteries. This energy reserve is enough for 4 hours of games, 9 hours of watching videos on YouTube in high quality, as well as 11.5 hours of reading books. In real life, the phone can withstand about 1.5 days with average loads, if you use the device in full, then it will be enough for a working day. In general, the indicator of autonomy is acceptable for its level. If this time is not enough for someone, then no one bothers to use energy saving modes - Stamina and Ultra Stamina.

Conclusion

Sony Xperia C4 is an excellent device for its class. He has no weak points, and by all criteria the device leaves an extremely positive impression. Price at the start of sales - 21 thousand, and it is more than adequate for this model.

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