Unfortunately, Sony Ericsson has opted to include its own on-screen keyboard which isn’t nearly as good as the default Android offering. However, its use of widgets for things like the media player is excellent.
Though the screen of the Xperia Pro is bright and responsive to the touch, we would have liked it to be a little bigger. At 3,7 inches, it feels small compared to the likes of the recent Samsung and HTC smartphones and means a lot of zooming in and out is required when browsing Web pages.
Our other gripe with the handset is its high-gloss black rear cover that’s a little slippery, shows every fingerprint and dirty mark and gets greasy all too quickly. We would have preferred a matt, textured surface on the rear so that we wouldn’t feel compelled to wipe the Xperia Pro on our trousers quite so often.
At R5 999, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro is in line with other phones in its class. It’s a capable and fairly attractive device and its main differentiator – the physical keyboard – is well laid out and a delight to use.
The Xperia Pro might be one of the last devices to carry the Sony Ericsson name after Sony recently announced that it was buying Ericsson out of the partnership the two companies entered into in 2001. Hopefully there’ll be a few more devices carrying the name before then, because although the Xperia Pro is a good device it wouldn’t make for a sufficiently grand swansong from the joint venture. — Craig Wilson, TechCentral
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