Sony Xperia J review: Junior league
Junior league
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.