Hands on review of the Sony Xperia Z smartphone
Sony has always come up with great devices having high end features. Its new launch, Sony Xperia Z is a milestone in the field of smartphones. Read this article for a hands-on review of the Xperia Z with all details about its features, specifications, price and availability in India.
Sony is one of the most authentic and trusted smart phone manufacturers in world. It is one of the oldest smartphone manufacturers. A wide range of Sony handsets are available in market. The company always comes up with innovative products to prove its metal in this race of technology. People enjoy these new features and applications. Recently, Sony launched an all new smart phone called Sony Xperia Z. It is a unique smartphone with fantastic features. Read this article about features & specifications of the new Xperia Z to judge the product.Features and specifications of Sony Xperia Z
Body
This new Sony smartphone looks beautiful. Its dimensions are 139 x 71 x 7.9mm (5.47 x 2.80 x 0.31). It weighs around 146g. This smartphone is IP57 certified- dust and water resistant screen. This is one of the best features of this smartphone.
Display
The Xperia Z comes with a 5.0 inch clear display with resolution of around 1080 x 1920 pixels. The TFT touch capacitive screen of this device provides a smooth touch interface. This multi-touch capacitive smartphone can sense up to ten fingers. This display screen has a scratch-resistant glass to prevent damage.
Connectivity
This smartphone supports various connectivity features like GPRS (Up to 107 kbps), EDGE (Up to 296 kbps), Bluetooth (v4.0 with A2DP), USB (micro USB v2.0), NFC and WLAN (Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot). You can use HSDPA (42 Mbps), HSUPA (5.8 Mbps), UL (100 Mbps) and LTE, Cat3 (50 Mbps) for high internet speed. User can enjoy a great browsing speed.
Camera
The Sony Xperia Z supports a 13.1 mega-pixel high-quality front camera with resolution of about 4128 x 3096 pixels. This gives good picture quality. The phone supports LED flash and auto-focus. Other features are Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, image stabilization and sweep panorama. This device is also having a 2.2 mega-pixel back camera for video calling, video chatting and other possible needs.
Memory
This newly introduced Sony smartphone has 2 GB RAM which enables a good gaming experience. It has a storage capacity of 16 GB which can be further expanded up to 64 GB via micro SD card.
OS and Processor
The Sony Xperia Z runs on the Android OS 1.2 Jelly Bean operating system which can be further upgraded to v4.2 Jelly Bean. Thus, users can get a wide range of games and applications from the Android store. This smartphone is powered by a 1.5 GHz Krait Quad-core processor which ensures high processing speed. The chipset in the device is Qualcomm MDM9215M / APQ8064. The GPU is Adreno320. The sensors of this smartphone include accelerometer, gyro, proximity and compass. Thus, users can download sensor games from the Android market.
Battery
This device is coupled with a non-removable Li-ion battery. The 2320 mAh battery gives a great battery back-up. On stand-by mode, the battery back-up is 550 hours on 2G network and 530 hours on 3G network. On talk time mode, it is 11 hours on 2G and 14 hours on 3G. On music play mode, the battery back-up is 40 hours.
Other features
Other features of this smartphone include Radio (Stereo FM radio with RDS), browser – HTML5 and messaging services like SMS (threaded view), MMS, email, push mail & IM. This device also has MP3 player and MP4 player for music lovers. This well designed smartphone is available in different attractive colors like black, white and purple. Price and availability in India
The estimated price of this newly introduced smartphone is Rs. 30,000. It is available at almost all Sony showrooms and one can get it easily from there. It is also available at some reputed online shops like Naaptol, Flipkart and Snapdeal. Online shops give best deals and offers. Conclusion
This was all about the newly launched Sony Xperia Z. This is one of the best smartphones launched by Sony. The company has introduced some impressive new applications. The water resistant feature of this smartphone attracts users. The front camera is also impressive. We can say that it works as a digital camera. Comparing with other smartphones in market, we can say that this smartphone is reasonably priced. There is a great demand of this smartphone in the market. People like this newbie.
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