Sony Xperia M5 Quick Review, Price and Specifications

The Sony M5 Xperia, many people think that the device will fall in the mid-range segment, but considering the price, this smartphone ranks premium access. A design is not too unique, but Omni Balance styled is greatly improved compared to the previous Sony Xperia M4 Aqua, particularly at the front and rear camera design. Does Sony Xperia M5 have enough power to attract users when it comes with a price around $429 for unlocked version. Let’s find out in this quick Sony Xperia M5 review below:

Design:

The Xperia M5 design Inherit from the Xperia M4 Aqua, but it comes with more finishing and take special care by Sony. The device housing is created by the renowned designer of Sony Omni Balance philosophy in everything looks beautiful and luxurious. The plastic angled metal imitation, but rather solid and sturdy. It has moderate weight and especially notable four curved and soft edges.

However, this one is Selfie centric smartphone, so the device has the large light and camera sensor on front to take a selfie which is not looking pretty in term of design but it’s understandable because this selfie camera has a resolution up to 13-megapixel. If both (sensor and camera) are made ​​slightly compact, perhaps M5 will be compliments itself over the front design. The Xperia M5 housing covers with tough glass is very sleek and looking fashionable. However, the device housing is quite sticky, but hard to find scratches.

Display:

The Sony Xperia M5 is equipped with 5.0-inch IPS screen which is moderate in size, it comes with a Mobile Bravia Engine 2 technology, Full-HD 1080p resolution so picture quality of the M5 is quite excellent, no grainy phenomenon, not green or gold possessed. It has wide viewing angle, the colors are not too bright, but honestly, it’s not causing any eyestrain for lone time view, that we can say about the display of the Xperia M5 not inferior to the senior member such as Xperia Z3 or Z3+.

Performance:

Previously, Sony pretty faithful to Snapdragon chipset for stability and good performance, but it’s easy to push the price-up, so recently they tied-up with MediaTek for the mid-range Xperia line, and Xperia M5 is a testament when it comes with a 2.0 GHz Octa-core Cortex-A53 MediaTek MT6795 processor. In addition, the amount of RAM up to 3GB so users not have to worry about the application crash, simple interface makes the M5 high availability of RAM and rest assured that you can use multiple applications simultaneously.

It bears a 16GB of internal memory with the ability to expand storage using the memory card up to 200GB that can comfortably save pictures, music, FHD movies and even huge games without worrying about running out of the space. Many argue that the MediaTek chipset performance can not match with Snapdragon, but maybe this time they should think again, through the performance evaluation by AnTuTu Benchmark and Geekbench 3, scores of M5 equivalent to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 SoC.

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With such a configuration, simple tasks like making voice calls, surf the web or social network apps are not met state or frame delay when switching tasks. Playing high-end games like Asphalt 8 or Fifa 15 do not hard for M5 on full frame setting, just faced a micro second lag when some high level of graphics appeared like heavy fire or attack etc.

Camera:

It can be said if you look at the parameters, the primary camera of Xperia M5 really par with some digital cameras on the market today because the technology used by Sony. Even the people who do not know anything about photography, just use auto mode with autofocus features to capture beautiful and sharp images.

We can simply say, in outdoor lighting conditions, the camera on the Xperia M5 is showing his great power, from the ability to automatically ISO, focus, shutter speed all is good, the subject and object in the image are recorded with details and high sharpness are not less that any other digital camera.

In low light conditions, the camera just a little short of breath, have to use the manual focus to regain good metering quality for this smartphone. Images start to begin quite a noisy and phenomenon, but not any other serious issue.

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We can say that the M5 camera is upgraded when compared to the M4 Aqua, take a selfie especially with an integrated 13-megapixel Exmor RS Sensor – on par with the primary camera of some mid-range smartphone! With the integration of new image sensors, front flash was removed because of this sensor, a camera capable of collecting better light, comes the special photography mode lets you edit your selfies to look more trendy.

Battery:

With 2600mAh battery juice, Xperia M5 lasts up to two days, according to the Sony, the device integrated many battery management functions such as Stamina, Stamina Ultra etc. If you only make a calls, surf web, play some games with high brightness the device last up to 5 and half hours. On 3D gaming performance with use of 3G network, the battery juice will fall rapidly, but do not worry, when using battery-saving mode on the M5 the usage time will rise, so you can carry it for a whole day without worrying about charging.

Final line:

If you want to buy a smartphone with water resistant housing, beautiful screen, high-quality front and rear camera, good for 3D gaming, the Sony Xperia M5 will collect so much point that enough to meet your demand, if you are interested in a stylish design or not a fan of MediaTek processors so on this M5 should loose some point to meet your criteria. In summary, with the advantages we mentioned above, the Xperia M5 is one of the toughest competition in mid-range to the premium segment of this year.

Sony Xperia M5 Specifications:

• Dimensions of 145 x 72 x 7.6 mm
• Weight of 142g
• IPS LCD Display of 5.0 inches, 441ppi
• Resolution of 1920×1080 pixels
• Rear Camera of 21.2 mega pixels, Hybrid AF, 4K video
• Front Camera of 13 mega pixels, HDR
• Android 5.0 operating system
• 2.0 GHz Octa-core Processor
• MediaTek MT6795 Chip
• 3GB of RAM
• Internal memory of 16GB
• Expandable memory up to 200GB
• Connectivity of 4G LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, NFC, Bluetooth 4.1, Micro-USB 2.0
• Battery capacity of 2600mAh

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