White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Purpose of this document Sony Mobile Communications product White papers are intended to give an overview of a product and provide details in relevant areas of technology. NOTE: All illustrations, screen images, and elements are for reference only and subject to change at any time without prior notice.
The Xperia™ C5 Ultra sports front and rear facing 13-megapixel cameras. The Xperia™ C5 Ultra uses Sony’s Exmor RS mobile sensor and HDR technology to provide sharp and clear images when taking photos or selfies using your smartphone. When used with Superior Auto mode, both the front and rear facing cameras can capture crisp photos in a variety of scenes and lighting conditions.
White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Product specifications Operating system Google™ Android™ 5.0 (Lollipop) Processor 1.7 GHz MediaTek MT6752 Octa-core ARM MaliT760-MP2 700MHz Size 164.2 x 79.6 x 8.2 mm Weight 187 grams Available colours Black White Mint SIM card Nano SIM Main screen Colours...
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White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Photo Flash 2nd Camera Camera resolution 13 MP Exmor Yes – Exmor RS™ Video recording Full HD 1080p 30fps Auto Focus Photo Flash Sensors Accelerometer Ambient light sensor eCompass Hall sensor Proximity sensor Networks E5553 UMTS HSPA+ 900 (Band VIII), 850 (Band V), 1900 (Band II), 2100 (Band I) MHz...
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White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Standby time (UMTS) Up to 769 hours**** Standby time (LTE) Up to 728 hours**** Music listening time Up to 60 hours 8 min.**** Video playback time Up to 7 hours 47 min.**** Battery (Embedded) 2930 mAh minimum * The E5506 and E5553 have approximately 9.5 GB of free memory available to the user for downloaded applications and their data, music, pictures and movies, while each device has up to 16 GB of flash mem-...
White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Categorised feature list Internet Music Camera Google Chrome™* Album art AR effect Google Play™* Bluetooth® stereo (aptX®, A2DP) Auto Focus Google™ search* ClearAudio+ AR Fun Google Voice™ Search* Clear Bass™ AR mask Google Maps™ with Street view* Clear Phase™...
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White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Connectivity Organiser Entertainment Audio Jack (3.5 mm CTIA) Airplane mode Radio (FM radio with RDS*) GPS* (aGPS) Alarm/Clock/Stopwatch/Timer Sony Entertainment Network* Bluetooth® (BT 4.1 + HS) Battery STAMINA mode YouTube™* Calculator DLNA Certified Calendar GLONASS Contacts...
The information presented in this section is a general overview of the technology incorporated into the product. However, hardware and software levels of compliance to standards and specifications vary between products and markets. For more information, contact Sony Mobile Developer World or the relevant Sony representative.
White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Device-to-device communications (local) Bluetooth® wireless technology Bluetooth® profiles supported Advanced Audio Distribution Profile v1.2 Audio/Video Control Transport Protocol Profiles v1.4 Audio/Visual Distribution Profile v1.3 Audio/Video Remote Control Profile v1.3 Generic Access Profile General Audio/Video Distribution Profile v1.2 Generic Object Exchange Profile v1.1 Health Device Profile v1.0 Hands-Free Profile v1.6...
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White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Wi-Fi® Supported standards IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n and Wi-Fi® Wi-Fi Direct®, Wi-Fi Protected Setup, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast™ Connectable devices Wi-Fi® access points Wi-Fi Direct™ compatible devices Frequency band 2.4 GHz / 5 GHz Data transfer rate Up to 150 Mbit/s Security Open Authentication...
White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra DLNA Certified (Digital Living Network Alliance) Supported Device Classes M-DMS – Mobile Digital Media Server Media Types: images, video and music Summary: The digital media server exposes the media files in your device to a Wi-Fi® network. The files can then be accessed from other DLNA Certified clients.
White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Messaging MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) According to OMA Multimedia Messaging Service v1.0 + SMIL Email Bearer type (IP) GPRS, EGPRS, UMTS, LTE, Wi-Fi® Character sets BIG5 Traditional Chinese GB2312 Simplified Chinese GB18030 ISO-2022-JP Japanese ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-2 Eastern Europe ISO-8859-5 Cyrillic...
White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Positioning – location based services Supported standards: • OMA Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) v1.0 • 3GPP™ Control Plane location (incl. Emergency location) Supported satellite systems: • GPS • GLONASS NOTE: When needed, the device automatically uses a combination of all available satellite systems to accurately provide location information.
White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Multimedia (audio, image and video) Audio Playback Decoder format Supported file formats Audio decoding MPEG-1/2/2.5, MP3 (.mp3) audio layer 3 AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4) AMR-NB, AMR-WB 3GPP (.3gp), MP4 (.mp4) General MIDI (GM) SMF (.mid) Linear PCM 16 bit WAV (.wav)
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White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Image Playback Decoder format Supported file formats 1, 4, 8, 16, 24 and 32 bpp and RLE BMP (.bmp) encoded formats Single and multi-frame, bitmap GIF (.gif) mask support (GIF87a format and GIF89a format) Joint Photographic Experts Group JPEG (.jpg,) Portable Network Graphics Bitmap...
White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Synchronisation (OMA DS, EAS, Google Sync™) OMA Data Synchronisation protocol versions 1.1.2 and 1.2 OMA Data Formats: vCard 2.1, vCalendar 1.0 Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol version 2.5 Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol version 12 Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® protocol version 12.1 Microsoft®...
Paper is noted as such. Types of memory The types of memory described and numbered below are consistent with the terminology used in Sony mobile device menus and in other content relating to 2015 Xperia™ devices: 1. Dynamic Memory (also known as RAM) is used by applications that run when the device is turned on.
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9.5 GB of Internal Storage available out of the box. Please note that in Sony Mobile 2015 products, “Internal Storage” is now the combination of what was previously known as “Device Memory” or “Phone Memory” (for applications and their data – also previously known as “/data”) and “Internal Storage”...
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4. SD Card (known as “/sdcard1” from a programmer’s point of view, or by other names in other Android products) is the name for the removable SD memory card in all 2015 Sony Mobile products. As described in the previous section, this External Card memory is generally more limited in that any application can read from it, but many applications cannot save to this card.
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White paper | Xperia™ C5 Ultra Note 3: For a developer, it is important to note that from a programming point of view the location names used to refer to the different memory areas described in Note 1 are still valid, i.e., the area used for applications (“/ data”) is still present, as is the area used for content (“/sdcard”).
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