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#91460 13-Oct-2011 17:00

Posted just now: Xperia active on Telecom New Zealand:

The Xperia active is dust proof and water resistant - it can be kept under one metre of water for up to 30 minutes. It incorporates a unique wet finger tracking, to ensure the phone works perfectly when either the screen or a user’s fingers are wet.

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#533003 13-Oct-2011 17:20

I have been using it the whole day and must say it's a very nice phone, for starters it has a night weight to it - doesn't feel flimsy and grips well. The screen looks very good even under direct sunlight and it's 1GHz Snapdragon processor makes the phone quite fast to use. The Camera is actually very good and has a tonne of features such as "3D View" which you normally find on more expensive phones.

While using it today I found that battery life lasted as long as any other smartphone, the end user should be able to get between 1 to 2 days out of it. Also I found it really quite fast with hardly any lag at all.

For $399 this is a absolute bargin, I would recommend this to anybody wanting a cheaper smartphone.

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#537743 26-Oct-2011 14:21

Hi there, would this work on vodafone? Looking at their spec it seems so. Have you tried this on non-telecom simcard? Warehouse got one for $359 now..

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#537749 26-Oct-2011 14:30

Remember specs on sites such as GSMArena are usually incomplete. Sometimes 850/900/2100 means there's a 850/2100 model and a different 900/2100 model.

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#537753 26-Oct-2011 14:34

freitasm: Remember specs on sites such as GSMArena are usually incomplete. Sometimes 850/900/2100 means there's a 850/2100 model and a different 900/2100 model.

I'm actually pretty sure the Active is 850/900/2100 3G, will doublecheck when I am at work tomorrow.

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#537758 26-Oct-2011 14:37

That'd be interesting...

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#537761 26-Oct-2011 14:47

No, looks like it is 900/2100 or 850/2100. Checked specs on NZ site and says UMTS 900/2100 and "Note that UMTS/HSPA network compatibility varies per location"

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#537771 26-Oct-2011 15:02

Yeah, it's 850MHz / 2100MHz for Telecom, will still run on Vodafone or 2* on 2G outside the main centres.

I really like this phone, been shoving my sim into the one at work and using it during the day, might actually buy one.

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#537820 26-Oct-2011 16:28

Is running fine here on Vodafone, although on GPRS (2G)

Am not sure exactly what basebands... will see if theres anything in the documentation

Found this: Model type is ST17a; UMTS Band 1 2 5 GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
For others thats 3G 850/1900/2100

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#537821 26-Oct-2011 16:33

There you go, not 900MHz so limited 3G on Vodafone.

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