Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S

Picked up my new phone and love the look, its taking a bit longer than I thought to get used to the different functions but am pleased. It cant seem to take all my apps which must be a memory thing but I have too many anyway that I never use.

The phone has great features from its network, that is the 3rd generation,its weight and size causing a sense of you feeling substantial touch on your hands, the sound is okay for music listeners, the camera produces good images just to name a few of the many more good features, the only issue that I haven't liked about the phone is its, abrupt closing of browsing windows and also the usable memory of only 320 MBs should be increased by the developers.

I'll keep it short, great phone but it could do with more of both kinds of memory. It only has 1GB of onboard storage, but the usable memory is only about 300MB (The rest is used by the phone's software). As a lot of apps can't be installed on a MicroSD card, only the onboard memory, this soon eats up what little there is. Also with only 512MB of RAM, this phone has to be restarted every day otherwise it slows down quickly.Also, it can only have about five internet tabs open at a time or it will crash to the home screen.

WiFi has a problem that it won't connect unless the phone is connected to a mobile network, not sure if this is an Android thing or this phone's software - hasn't changed upon upgrading to Android 4 or rooting.

Great screen though, iPlayer at high res looks great.

Very watchable on the small screen. Sound is okay from the speakers, good battery life when listening to music as well. Camera is great in bright light, and okay in darker rooms.

The phone is fantastic!!! It has an extremely accurate and responsive 4.2 inch screen. It's nice and big, not too big but feels nice in the hand. I have owned an iPhone 4 and I never thought I'd say this, but I much prefer this to the iPhone. I swore by my iPhone and was adamant that there was no phone that could match this except from the 4S when it was finally revealed. I was proven wrong. There is next to no lag, if any at all. It's speedy 1.4GHz processor does the job it's supposed to do effortlessly. The 8.1 megapixel camera is superb! Upgradable to Android 4.0 ICS too! The battery life was suprisingly good. I expected it to die towards 8:30pm based on my previous xperia phones. I have my brightness at around 50%, WiFi always on and with use throughout the day, Facebook, Calls, Texts, Browsing and Gaming, I normally go to bed with about 40% charge left. But if you are really cautious you can buy the upgraded 1700mAh battery

If you buy it then go to phones4u. It's only £179.99 and Carphone Warehouse want £400.

The only thing I can comment on about this phone is the casing. It feels nice but it would be a mess if you propped it because it's a cheapish plastic material.

Overall, great phone, great price, also comes with an 8gb microSD card in it.