Luxury phones have a hard time some days. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Pureness has a hard time … luxury. But this is not a good way to evaluate it now? Here we go again. rare metals and stones are common, but a transparent window? Now it’s a first. The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Pureness retain only the essential functions of the phone and explains the nickname of purity. And as a luxury phone itself, it comes with a concierge.

You can use the service 24 / 7 concierge access via a phone call or e-mail and have a hotel room, buy tickets for a game or advice. But this is not just a simple booking service – through the housekeeper has certain advantages, such as free upgrades at Select room hotels, discounts (good, good), complementary champagne and so on.

You see, the luxury of holding a Sony Ericsson XPERIA Pureness not only from what was on the phone. But because we do not use the concierge service anytime soon, let us focus on what the phone has to offer :

Key features :

* Support GSM quad-band
* 3G support with HSDPA and HSUPA
* One-of-a-kind transparent grayscale display (1.8 “240 x 320 pixels), anti-scratch surface
* Lightweight only 70 grams
* FM radio with RDS and TrackID
* Bluetooth with A2DP and USB (Fast Port Connector)
* 2 GB internal memory
* Smart Dialing
* Excellent sound quality

Main disadvantages :

* Small screen is barely legible
* It looks cheap and poorly constructed
Fast port * instead of 3.5 mm audio jack: a limited use as a music
* Speed 3G connectivity with HSDPA / HSUPA only be used to confirm
* No cameras
* Battery not removable
* The internal memory is not expandable

A phone with a transparent screen is nothing short of unique. But the screen is certainly a responsibility in terms of actual use of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Pureness. The limited physical space available in the phone, which Sony Ericsson engineers with very little room to work.

Moreover, the display is a grayscale low resolution camera (even just a video call camera) and browse the web right useless. This leaves the only band with a reasonable use fast 3G data.

But the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Pureness is no gimmick. Previously, the notion of purity and runs with it – apart from all the functions of distraction. Only the essence of a phone and the screen remains transparent serves as the perfect metaphor.

On the next page we look through the material. Literally.