Sony Xperia J review: Junior league

Junior league

GSMArena team, 22 November 2012.

Synthetic benchmarks

The Sony Xperia J is powered by a Qualcomm MSM7227A chipset, which packs a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A5 processor, 512MB of RAM and Adreno 200 GPU. That's one of the lowest-powered still available Qualcomm chipset on the market, but it's quite common within the low-end class.

The CPU performance is quite poor. That also results in a rather choppy UI navigation, which is probably the worst thing about the Xperia J. The Xperia J CPU does better than lower-clocked Cortex-A5 designs, if that's any consolation.

BenchmarkPi

Lower is better

  • Sony Xperia go
    543
  • Sony Xperia sola
    551
  • HTC Desire X
    639
  • LG Optimus L7
    773
  • Sony Xperia J
    790
  • Sony Xperia tipo
    987
  • Sony Xperia miro
    1037
  • Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus
    1037

Linpack

Higher is better

  • HTC Desire X
    74.79
  • Sony Xperia sola
    68.1
  • Samsung Galaxy S Advance
    64.74
  • Sony Xperia J
    38.37
  • HTC Desire V
    34.4
  • HTC One V
    34.4

AnTuTu and Quadrant gives the smartphone an all-round grade for processing (calculative and graphic, memory speed, SD card writing, etc).

AnTuTu

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    12288
  • HTC One X (Tegra 3)
    11633
  • Motorola RARZ i XT890
    6150
  • Samsung Galaxy S III mini
    5823
  • HTC Desire X
    5177
  • Sony Xperia J
    3546
  • Sony Xperia miro
    2916

Quadrant

Higher is better

  • Samsung Galaxy S III
    5450
  • Sony Xperia T
    4774
  • Motorola RAZR i
    4125
  • Sony Xperia SL
    3396
  • Sony Xperia J
    1859

The Adreno 200 GPU is an old design and FWVGA resolution seems to push it a bit too hard. Still, with a NenaMark 2 result of about 20fps, the Xperia J should do okay in casual 3D games, but don't expect the top-shelf titles to work. We actually tried the free game Dead Trigger and it ran well, so the Xperia J will still do the job in most of the games currently available.

NenaMark 2

Higher is better

  • HTC Sensation XE
    23.0
  • Sony Xperia J
    19.6
  • LG Optimus L7
    19.3
  • Sony Xperia miro
    15.9
  • Samsung Galaxy mini 2
    15.4
  • HTC Explorer
    15.1
  • Samsung Galaxy Y Duos
    13.2
  • Samsung Galaxy Pocket
    12.9
  • Samsung Galaxy Ace
    12.0

Web browsing performance seems to be the problem in the Xperia J though, you can improve it if you use Chrome instead of the stock Android browser (which crashes occasionally when the RAM goes full).

SunSpider

Lower is better

  • HTC Desire X
    2259
  • Sony Xperia J
    2853
  • HTC Desire V
    3299
  • Sony Xperia tipo
    3531
  • Sony Xperia miro
    3532
  • LG Optimus L7
    3661
  • Samsung Galaxy mini 2
    5911
  • HTC Explorer
    10784

BrowserMark 2

Higher is better

  • LG Optimus G
    2555
  • Nokia Lumia 820
    1760
  • Samsung Omnia W
    1632
  • Samsung Galaxy S III (JB)
    1247
  • Sony Xperia J
    587

As expected, the Xperia J is hardly a benchmark champion. Its chipset is not even enough to provide a smooth ride through the interface and results in the occasional hiccup. It does okay for non-demanding tasks and things might get better when Jelly Bean comes, however.

Reader comments

  • sayeed
  • 23 Jul 2018
  • 2FY

in my phone i can't use facebook lite app after updating facebook lite. what should i do now

  • Ekuyik Etim
  • 10 Sep 2016
  • f0I

I love this Phone....

  • Kenny
  • 18 Jun 2015
  • pJ2

Had my Xperia J for over 2 yrs now. No problems, still going strong. Would buy another Sony.