**Hands-on Review: Sony Xperia M2**

As I take out this USB OTG cable, you can see that it comes with two videos and we can select and play them back directly from this USB drive. The USB disc is provided, and as you can see, it has a small app using which you can do multitasking. You can run something at the bottom and one more app over here, so support for multitasking is also there. As I show you one more thing regarding the volume, I'll keep it at Max, and as you can see, the volume is pretty loud. However, if you just go one notch down, like this, as you can see, it loads pretty significantly. The difference between Max and 15 and 14 is pretty high. This phone was able to play many of the 1080p videos and even 720p videos without any issues. As I told you, the screen quality is actually pretty good, so in terms of video playback, you'll have a good experience with this device.

Regarding gaming, I tried this phone with quite a few games, and as you can see, it could play a lot of games without any issues. Even some high-end games like Asphalt 8 were able to run smoothly without any issues. However, I feel that if you are a heavy user or a person who likes to install a lot of games, the limited internal storage can be an issue.

**Camera Performance**

Coming to the camera, the camera on this phone is an 8-megapixel shooter, and I would say it's pretty decent. This is the front-facing camera, which I didn't like; it's pretty dull. However, the rear-facing camera is pretty decent. I won't go into details about it because I've already made a separate video regarding that.

**Battery Life**

Regarding the battery, it supports a sealed 2300mAh battery, and I would say the battery life was pretty decent. Another thing is that Sony did not skimp on sensors; let's try this multi-touch point and I tried it earlier, and I could register all 10 fingers, so that's pretty nice. As you can see, all 10 fingers are also registered in the image.

**Multitasking Tray**

The multitasking tray is here, as you can see, and as you can see many apps are running still, the phone was pretty fluid to run and I would say 99% of the time this phone was very responsive. However, I noticed one or two lags here and there in the 10 days.

**General Performance**

The general performance of the phone is brilliant. The phone performed well, and it looks pretty decent. Overall, I would say that the Sony Xperia M2 is a good option for those looking for a phone with a good camera, smooth performance, and a beautiful screen.

**Pricing**

Regarding pricing, the price quoted on the box is 21,990, but I have seen this phone in local stores and online stores like Flipkart, etc., for around 20,500 or soon. I feel that Sony has priced this phone a little bit higher than it should be, so it's up to you to decide if the pricing of that Rs. 20,000 is okay for you.

**Other Cons**

Some other cons of this device are the limited internal storage, which can be an issue for power users, and the phone tends to get heated a little bit when you do heavy tasks like gaming.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi there this is Ranjit and I have this Xperia M2 with me and in this video we'll be doing the full in-depth review and I have been testing this uh phone for uh more than 10 days now and this is a mid-range Android phone by Sony and in terms of looks I'll say it is a pretty decent and actually a very good looking phone uh it supports a 4.8 in screen but it's not a 720p HD screen but still a q HD screen coming towards the internals uh it SPS specs very similar to the Moto G uh it's based on the Snapdragon 400 chipset that's a quad core processor clogged at 1.2 GHz regarding the GPU it supports adreno 305 GPU and RAM is 1 gig coming to the camera the rear facing camera is 8 megap shooter we also have LED flash and it can record video up to 1080p uh though the front facing camera is just a VJ camera the front facing camera is not that great and uh before I proceed with the review let me give you a physical overv of this device on the top we have this 3.5 mm headphone jack and on this end this actually a flap it's a dual SIM model uh in some countries you also have the single Sim model and here you can insert both your micro SIMs Sim 1 and Sim 2 uh going further down we have the power onoff button and just below that is the volume rocker and we also get a dedicated button for the camera shutter we have a opening for a lanyard if you want and actually here the bottom uh hes the speakers I'll talk about the speakers a bit later and on this end we also have one slot uh this is for the uh micro uh uh SD card and you can add a Micro SD card I have added a Micro SD card here but the thing is that you cannot move the apps or games uh to the micro SD card as of now uh we also have the micro USB cable that will use for charging and syncing moving towards the back again we have this finish which is glossy but a fingerprint magnet and as you can see it has n that is NFC Sony logo Xperia uh moving towards the front again we have the sticker this can be removed as dual SIM uh as it's a dual SIM phone it's there and we have that 4.8 in screen which is a QHD screen uh that is 540 by 960 and I would say the screen quality is actually pretty good and Sony has really improved the screen compared to the original Xperia M which had very bad viewing angles if you can see the viewing angles on this device are pretty good and I'm overall satisfied with the screen yeah I'm a little bit saddened to see that Sony didn't put a 720P HD screen but in terms of the screen quality the screen quality that Sony has provided is pretty good again at the bottom uh we have the uh navigation buttons which are part of the display like a back home and this is the multitasking train we also have the Sony uh quick apps and regarding the size here I'm not very happy because it Sports just a 4.8 in screen but the phone is actually pretty big and to give you an idea this is the Nexus 5 which has a 5 in full HD screen and if you see the Nexus 5 is smaller in height compared to this Xperia M2 so definitely it's a pretty big phone for a 4.8 in screen and I would say definitely go to a store and handle it in terms of weight I would say it is pretty good I have no problems with the uh weight distribution and it is working pretty fine and let's uh see the settings now if you we also have the quick toggle settings here you can customize it uh by going to the settings and we also have the Auto Bright sensor on this device for example as you can see but I did notice that auto brightness sensor when you ever you keep it on that it's pretty dull so I was using it mostly in the manual mode let's look at the further settings and the Android version and if you go to about the phone uh and if you look at the Android version it comes out of the box with the Android version 4.3 that is Jelly Bean and on this box it says that this phone is going to get the KitKat update so hopefully uh we will get the kit cat update also very soon regarding the internal storage uh you have just 8 GB of internal storage out of that uh you just get around 4 OD GB or so and as I told you uh though it has micro SD card slot but you cannot move the apps to the micro SD card so storage can be a issue if you are a heavy user now coming to the call Quality the call Quality on this device was actually uh pretty good I have no problems we have the standard dialer like this and let's dial a number and uh I'll put it on speaker your account balance is z validity on your account will expire on the speaker volume is actually pretty decent but at max volume I notice it crackles a little bit again uh we don't get any 3G uh video call calling but using the front facing camera we can make video calls using uh third party apps like Skype Etc another thing just I wanted to show you that is let's go to the Wi-Fi this device surprisingly has dual band support that means it supports a Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz that's the standard as well as the 5 GHz span and uh let me uh now uh switch on the web browser and let's do some web browsing we'll use the Chrome web browser for that and it's going to our website that's tas.com and as you can see it opened it fairly quickly in terms of uh General responsiveness as I mentioned even earlier the phone was pretty responsive so I don't have any issues with the responsiveness of this device uh let's uh look at one of the videos I'll change the orientation also hi there this is R from t.com and I have this Sony xia M which is this is at max volume see the vi angles already the uning for this pH whates inside the you can check out this video in this video we lower the volume a little bit C let me go back so in terms of web brows housing I didn't have any problem and it's actually pretty responsive now coming to one more uh thing which many of you have asked this phone does support luckily the usb OTG cable and you can just directly plug in a usb OTG cable this is a standard usb OTG cable and I have a pen drive attached so let me just connect that and you just plug in and as you can see it glows and uh it's giving me Sony Select accident Fe and as you can see uh USB storage is detected now you can use file managers to access this USB drive or example I also have this MX Player which is third party video player and as you can see I can let me just go back this is the USB disc and I have two videos and we can select and play them back directly from this USB drive using this usb OTG cable uh let me just show you one more thing regarding the volume I'll keep it at Max at Max the volume is pretty loud but if you just go one notch down like this as you can see it loads pretty significantly so the difference between Max and 15 and 14 is pretty high but it was able to play uh many of the 1080p videos and even 720p videos without any issues and as I told you the screen quality is actually pretty good so in terms of video playback you'll have a good experience with this device let me take out this usb OTG cable now regarding gaming also I tried this phone uh with quite a few games and as you can see uh it could play a lot of games without any issues and even some High games like Asphalt 8 uh without any issues the only Conner that I feel is that if you are a heavy user or a person who likes to install a lot of games The Limited internal storage can be a issue now coming to the camera the camera on this is 8 megap shooter and I would say the camera is pretty decent this is the front facing camera the front facing camera I did not like it uh it's pretty dull but the rear facing camera is pretty decent and uh I won't go into details about it because I've already made a separate video regarding that uh but the camera performance is pretty good I would say uh Outdoors it does a very good job but indoors in artificial lighting sometimes it has an issue you can check out the separate video that I made regarding the camera review for more info so overall I would say the rear facing camera 8 megap camera is pretty good uh but the front facing camera was not that great regarding the battery it supports a sealed 2,300 mamp battery and I would say the battery life was pretty decent another thing is that Sony did not skimp on sensors let's try this multi- touch point and I tried it earlier and I could register all 10 fingers so that's pretty nice as you can see all 10 fingers also the compass app work great so with GPS Etc you won't have any problems as you can see it is able to track without any issues um the the multitasking tray is here and as you can see so many apps are running still the phone was pretty uh fluid to run and I would say I would say the phone was pretty uh fluid to operate in my testing yes I noticed one or two lags here and there in the 10 days but uh most of the part I would say 99% of the time this phone was very responsive and we also have the small apps using which you can do multitasking you can run something at the bottom and one more app over here so that support is also there and as you can see General in the the UI also you will hardly notice any lag the phone is actually pretty fluid to operate and uh this Sony skin does provide a lot of functionality and uh regarding music playback it has that Walkman and I would say the music playback was very good as you can see again one place I noticed a little bit of cor is that when I was heavily using this phone or and gaming or even using the camera this portion can get actually uh pretty warm to a little bit hot while gaming so that can be a concern for some people now let's talk about the pricing of this device in India uh the price quoted on the box is 21,990 but I have seen this phone in local stores and online stores like flip cart Etc uh for around 20,500 or soon and I do feel that Sony has priced this phone a little bit higher so now it's up to you to decide if the pricing of that 20 OD th000 is okay for you or not for example we also have some other devices like the LG L90 Etc which are very similar to this device uh so you need to decide if the pricing is okay for you some other cons as I mentioned are the limited internal storage which can be an issue for power users and also the phone tends to get heated a little bit when you do heavy tasks like gaming Etc apart from this in the general performance the phone performed brilliantly and also in the looks the phone looks pretty decent so I hope that you found this uh video review helpful I've also made some other videos on the Sony Xperia M2 like the gaming review the camera review Etc benchmarks so you can check out uh those videos for more info links for those videos will be in the YouTube show notes thank you for watching this video this is ranit and I hope to see you in my next videohi there this is Ranjit and I have this Xperia M2 with me and in this video we'll be doing the full in-depth review and I have been testing this uh phone for uh more than 10 days now and this is a mid-range Android phone by Sony and in terms of looks I'll say it is a pretty decent and actually a very good looking phone uh it supports a 4.8 in screen but it's not a 720p HD screen but still a q HD screen coming towards the internals uh it SPS specs very similar to the Moto G uh it's based on the Snapdragon 400 chipset that's a quad core processor clogged at 1.2 GHz regarding the GPU it supports adreno 305 GPU and RAM is 1 gig coming to the camera the rear facing camera is 8 megap shooter we also have LED flash and it can record video up to 1080p uh though the front facing camera is just a VJ camera the front facing camera is not that great and uh before I proceed with the review let me give you a physical overv of this device on the top we have this 3.5 mm headphone jack and on this end this actually a flap it's a dual SIM model uh in some countries you also have the single Sim model and here you can insert both your micro SIMs Sim 1 and Sim 2 uh going further down we have the power onoff button and just below that is the volume rocker and we also get a dedicated button for the camera shutter we have a opening for a lanyard if you want and actually here the bottom uh hes the speakers I'll talk about the speakers a bit later and on this end we also have one slot uh this is for the uh micro uh uh SD card and you can add a Micro SD card I have added a Micro SD card here but the thing is that you cannot move the apps or games uh to the micro SD card as of now uh we also have the micro USB cable that will use for charging and syncing moving towards the back again we have this finish which is glossy but a fingerprint magnet and as you can see it has n that is NFC Sony logo Xperia uh moving towards the front again we have the sticker this can be removed as dual SIM uh as it's a dual SIM phone it's there and we have that 4.8 in screen which is a QHD screen uh that is 540 by 960 and I would say the screen quality is actually pretty good and Sony has really improved the screen compared to the original Xperia M which had very bad viewing angles if you can see the viewing angles on this device are pretty good and I'm overall satisfied with the screen yeah I'm a little bit saddened to see that Sony didn't put a 720P HD screen but in terms of the screen quality the screen quality that Sony has provided is pretty good again at the bottom uh we have the uh navigation buttons which are part of the display like a back home and this is the multitasking train we also have the Sony uh quick apps and regarding the size here I'm not very happy because it Sports just a 4.8 in screen but the phone is actually pretty big and to give you an idea this is the Nexus 5 which has a 5 in full HD screen and if you see the Nexus 5 is smaller in height compared to this Xperia M2 so definitely it's a pretty big phone for a 4.8 in screen and I would say definitely go to a store and handle it in terms of weight I would say it is pretty good I have no problems with the uh weight distribution and it is working pretty fine and let's uh see the settings now if you we also have the quick toggle settings here you can customize it uh by going to the settings and we also have the Auto Bright sensor on this device for example as you can see but I did notice that auto brightness sensor when you ever you keep it on that it's pretty dull so I was using it mostly in the manual mode let's look at the further settings and the Android version and if you go to about the phone uh and if you look at the Android version it comes out of the box with the Android version 4.3 that is Jelly Bean and on this box it says that this phone is going to get the KitKat update so hopefully uh we will get the kit cat update also very soon regarding the internal storage uh you have just 8 GB of internal storage out of that uh you just get around 4 OD GB or so and as I told you uh though it has micro SD card slot but you cannot move the apps to the micro SD card so storage can be a issue if you are a heavy user now coming to the call Quality the call Quality on this device was actually uh pretty good I have no problems we have the standard dialer like this and let's dial a number and uh I'll put it on speaker your account balance is z validity on your account will expire on the speaker volume is actually pretty decent but at max volume I notice it crackles a little bit again uh we don't get any 3G uh video call calling but using the front facing camera we can make video calls using uh third party apps like Skype Etc another thing just I wanted to show you that is let's go to the Wi-Fi this device surprisingly has dual band support that means it supports a Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz that's the standard as well as the 5 GHz span and uh let me uh now uh switch on the web browser and let's do some web browsing we'll use the Chrome web browser for that and it's going to our website that's tas.com and as you can see it opened it fairly quickly in terms of uh General responsiveness as I mentioned even earlier the phone was pretty responsive so I don't have any issues with the responsiveness of this device uh let's uh look at one of the videos I'll change the orientation also hi there this is R from t.com and I have this Sony xia M which is this is at max volume see the vi angles already the uning for this pH whates inside the you can check out this video in this video we lower the volume a little bit C let me go back so in terms of web brows housing I didn't have any problem and it's actually pretty responsive now coming to one more uh thing which many of you have asked this phone does support luckily the usb OTG cable and you can just directly plug in a usb OTG cable this is a standard usb OTG cable and I have a pen drive attached so let me just connect that and you just plug in and as you can see it glows and uh it's giving me Sony Select accident Fe and as you can see uh USB storage is detected now you can use file managers to access this USB drive or example I also have this MX Player which is third party video player and as you can see I can let me just go back this is the USB disc and I have two videos and we can select and play them back directly from this USB drive using this usb OTG cable uh let me just show you one more thing regarding the volume I'll keep it at Max at Max the volume is pretty loud but if you just go one notch down like this as you can see it loads pretty significantly so the difference between Max and 15 and 14 is pretty high but it was able to play uh many of the 1080p videos and even 720p videos without any issues and as I told you the screen quality is actually pretty good so in terms of video playback you'll have a good experience with this device let me take out this usb OTG cable now regarding gaming also I tried this phone uh with quite a few games and as you can see uh it could play a lot of games without any issues and even some High games like Asphalt 8 uh without any issues the only Conner that I feel is that if you are a heavy user or a person who likes to install a lot of games The Limited internal storage can be a issue now coming to the camera the camera on this is 8 megap shooter and I would say the camera is pretty decent this is the front facing camera the front facing camera I did not like it uh it's pretty dull but the rear facing camera is pretty decent and uh I won't go into details about it because I've already made a separate video regarding that uh but the camera performance is pretty good I would say uh Outdoors it does a very good job but indoors in artificial lighting sometimes it has an issue you can check out the separate video that I made regarding the camera review for more info so overall I would say the rear facing camera 8 megap camera is pretty good uh but the front facing camera was not that great regarding the battery it supports a sealed 2,300 mamp battery and I would say the battery life was pretty decent another thing is that Sony did not skimp on sensors let's try this multi- touch point and I tried it earlier and I could register all 10 fingers so that's pretty nice as you can see all 10 fingers also the compass app work great so with GPS Etc you won't have any problems as you can see it is able to track without any issues um the the multitasking tray is here and as you can see so many apps are running still the phone was pretty uh fluid to run and I would say I would say the phone was pretty uh fluid to operate in my testing yes I noticed one or two lags here and there in the 10 days but uh most of the part I would say 99% of the time this phone was very responsive and we also have the small apps using which you can do multitasking you can run something at the bottom and one more app over here so that support is also there and as you can see General in the the UI also you will hardly notice any lag the phone is actually pretty fluid to operate and uh this Sony skin does provide a lot of functionality and uh regarding music playback it has that Walkman and I would say the music playback was very good as you can see again one place I noticed a little bit of cor is that when I was heavily using this phone or and gaming or even using the camera this portion can get actually uh pretty warm to a little bit hot while gaming so that can be a concern for some people now let's talk about the pricing of this device in India uh the price quoted on the box is 21,990 but I have seen this phone in local stores and online stores like flip cart Etc uh for around 20,500 or soon and I do feel that Sony has priced this phone a little bit higher so now it's up to you to decide if the pricing of that 20 OD th000 is okay for you or not for example we also have some other devices like the LG L90 Etc which are very similar to this device uh so you need to decide if the pricing is okay for you some other cons as I mentioned are the limited internal storage which can be an issue for power users and also the phone tends to get heated a little bit when you do heavy tasks like gaming Etc apart from this in the general performance the phone performed brilliantly and also in the looks the phone looks pretty decent so I hope that you found this uh video review helpful I've also made some other videos on the Sony Xperia M2 like the gaming review the camera review Etc benchmarks so you can check out uh those videos for more info links for those videos will be in the YouTube show notes thank you for watching this video this is ranit and I hope to see you in my next video\n"